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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHere's what made Trump hate Obama so much--The W.H. Correspondents Dinner:
With Obama delivering the digs and the entire crowd laughing at him:
Funtatlaguy
(10,899 posts)Made Trump decide to run for Prez.
elleng
(131,457 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,776 posts)Thin-skinned and whiny when they get the tiniest dose it.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)brush
(53,978 posts)Turbineguy
(37,427 posts)Something he seems to be incapable of doing.
Baitball Blogger
(46,787 posts)How prescient.
Roy Rolling
(6,947 posts)Little John was a calming presence in a sea of chaos that was Meatloaf and Gary Busey.
Solly Mack
(90,803 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)Thanks for posting!
Sadly, it's not as funny now. Sigh.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)CTyankee
(63,932 posts)crazy that man has become...
Pluvious
(4,352 posts)cilla4progress
(24,804 posts)but if this is what it wrought...oy!
Course - story's not over yet. Watching the GOP self-cannibalize. Doesn't get much better than that!!
Must keep our eyes on the long game...even though the short run pain is insufferable...
lame54
(35,360 posts)cornball 24
(1,483 posts)President Obama that evening and could see the venom emanating from this repulsive being.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He was just seething with anger. I get the feeling that this whole "presidenting" thing is just an exercise in vengeance. He is that petty and vindictive. However, he is failing "bigly". He will never measure up to Obama in any way.
monmouth4
(9,720 posts)VermontKevin
(1,473 posts)The next day the NY media was filled with DJT interviews. Until news came from the White House.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)The "birth video" was a wonderful touch and Obama speared Trump with precision!
VermontKevin
(1,473 posts)MelissaB
(16,420 posts)Trump was pissed the whole time.
Thanks for this.
VermontKevin
(1,473 posts)broke and no one gave a shit about him anymore.
CTyankee
(63,932 posts)now they are SO SORRY and jumping on him every day. Well, Joe and Mika, you were giving him an opportunity to run his garbage on your show, giving him an opportunity to show his shiny ideas...we knew all along he was a fraud, but oh no you guys had to pump him up. You hypocrites!
He is fit to be tied!
progressoid
(50,031 posts)leftstreet
(36,119 posts)I'd never seen that
gtar100
(4,192 posts)Seth didn't hold back... all he had to do was tell the truth. But man, that was brutal!
Could see DT was boiling on the inside. He probably felt vindicated by becoming president but that accomplishment is quickly going up in flames considering he cheated to get there and everyone knows it, and he had to appeal to racists, misogynists, and everything that keeps republicans up at night worried about non-white getting more than they.... all these things and more just to get people to vote for him. And now, after six long months, it's obvious to any sane person that he's out of his league being president. To say that he's incompetent hardly does justice to the dangers of the present situation. His mistakes cost people their lives, their families, their earnings, their future. It's tragic that others suffer for the terrible decisions he makes and he suffers so little. He should be roasted like this daily until he gets it through his head that being a good leader actually means making things better for the country, not just for his circle jerk of friends. May he and his cabal know justice.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,257 posts)VermontKevin
(1,473 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,257 posts)janx
(24,128 posts)Especially that evening! Look at his hair!!
Mean, I know, but yet...
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)requires a slight edit. That man, who is not qualified to address President Obama, started with "race hate" by questioning the President's birthplace, race and religion. I love the way President Obama outshines the best comics and political speakers of his time.
Rhiannon12866
(207,016 posts)The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)well as being an advocate for the working middle class and poor. Trump hated him because he could not be conned and he did not buy into Trump's lies. Barack knew who Trump was and he called him on it at that dinner,which was his job - to ride the press and his political foes.
Maybe Trump knew then that the Russian oligarchs were going to slide him into office so they could get even with Barack and the US for the sanctions.
He does have that look on his face like. "You just wait. I'll get you."
MissKat
(218 posts)I think he was already planning, but I think this is what made Trumple-thin-skin hate President Obama even more.
I believe we'll find that the Russians had started grooming Donald, that a Worm-Tongue was whispering in the Orange one's ear--"We will make you President."
jodymarie aimee
(3,975 posts)OLD news...
DallasNE
(7,404 posts)Trump was still in birther mode at this time so the hate for Obama goes back years earlier than this roast. Race hatred is the only logical explanation Trump can have for calling Obama a Muslim from Kenya. And the race card still plays.
BigmanPigman
(51,675 posts)the Donald's reaction. Everyone else was laughing and he just sat motionless and glared. I could've sworn I saw smoke coming out of his ears. This was the final straw and he wanted revenge.
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)videos. Watch it when ever the current chaos starts getting to me.
watoos
(7,142 posts)President Obama humiliated Trump and Trump hasn't gotten over this to this day.
Deservedly humiliated him I might add. The whole room was laughing at Trump.
malaise
(269,365 posts)That and the facts that Obama was a much better leader and is way more classy.
HAB911
(8,957 posts)You could almost see his lil pea brain explode at one point, right when he starts rocking back and forth. "Being laughed at" seems to be a recurring fear/trigger of his. Note he uses that term quite often. I wish the MSM would give it one more rotation through the news cycle as a question like, "Is this really why Trump ran for President?", just to see what happens in the Kingdom of the Anus Faced Tangerine.
Cary
(11,746 posts)JI7
(89,290 posts)Steven Maurer
(476 posts)Unfortunately, the country appears to be full of ignorant racist assholes. Which is why he won.
Butterflylady
(3,562 posts)being dissed by a black man was just more than he could take.
It was absolutely the dinner that broke the camels back.
Me.
(35,454 posts)He was a birther long before that dinner.
bora13
(860 posts)obama and the IC was onto him back then and have been toying with him since they knew the
high-level traitor he was. Maybe they set a trap and Mueller and Co. are making the shit hit the fan.
dembotoz
(16,866 posts)A friend of mine spent a couple weeks in Russia a yr or two ago. Included was a train ride to Siberia.. russkies are taught the moon landing is a fraud and she got questions about it. Did Obama know something back then?
DonaldsRump
(7,715 posts)I've seen videos saying that this was the moment that the Idiot decided to run, and great intellects like Omarosa saying that President Obama had no idea what kind of war he was starting with The Donald.
This makes it seem like President Obama was the villain and The Donald is some heroic in taking this night on the chin and then five years later winning the Presidency.
Utter and complete rubbish: the fact of the matter is that the Idiot was the one that started all of this with President Obama with the birther nonsense. President Obama started nothing. However, the beautiful irony is that President Obama's roast was far more truthful than the Idiot's birther tin hat stuff.
I miss Barack Obama!
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,274 posts)The way the crowd laughs at Trump's "credentials and breadth of experience" at 4:10 is beautiful.
And, he just has to sit there and take it like the jabroni he is.
japple
(9,850 posts)On making fun of Donald Trump at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner
I saw him three days after, and we were at an event in New York. ... The reason that I found him to be such a fair target that night [of the dinner] was the birther issue that was what he was loudly championing at the time, which I still, to this day, find to be one of his more disgraceful things he's ever done. So I wasn't just bullying for the sake of bullying. I thought he was, and continue to think he's a bully.
Lorne Michaels, [creator and executor producer of SNL], one of the things he'd always say to you is: Don't tell a joke about somebody where, if you saw them, you would feel you had to leave the room. Be decent enough, if it's fair enough and you believe in it, you shouldn't have to leave the room.
And so I saw him and I walked over and I said, "Hey, I just wanted to thank you for being a good sport the other night." Even though he hadn't been and he had already criticized me. I wanted to give him the chance to have some revisionist history with me. And he did not, and he said: "You were very rude. It was too far, the president was funny. You were too rude." And I said, "Well, it's good seeing you."
But then we ran into each other at the SNL 40th, which I would say [was] maybe only about four months before he announced [his candidacy]. ... It was very crowded, and that studio is very small and I realized I was with my wife and I realized we are going to cross in an aisle getting to our seats. ... He and I actually had a very lovely bygones be bygones interaction then, and I think we would be in a perfectly fine place had he not decided to run and win president.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Vinca
(50,342 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,955 posts)he was steamed - and perhaps that is when he decided to run.
But seriously, WHO thought it would be successful? Nobody I know.
But he was.
How?
Can SO many be SO wrong?
underpants
(183,070 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)But Trump lost it with all these people mocking him openly, IMHO.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)A normal human being would be able to brush it off and take it. Someone especially unable to laugh at themselves might get pissed for a couple days or so.
But Trump is not a normal human being, as we've seen, he's an emotional/mental toddler with a massive case of narcissistic personality disorder.
Unfortunately I suspect this one event spurred him to run as "revenge"/proving something and also drives his unrelenting obsession with undoing everything Obama achieved as a "fuck you".
It would also completely explain the hookers peeing on the bed thing.
spanone
(135,958 posts)trump doesn't have a sense of humor.
Obama trashed his sorry ass.
canetoad
(17,218 posts)And it hit me, why the vicious hatred of the press.
They laughed at him. Uproariously and at length. Obama made the press laugh at Trump and now everyone in the USA must pay.
malaise
(269,365 posts)I still crack up.
He was going to show that black man by any means necessary.
lpbk2713
(42,777 posts)Pres Obama did it with class, no hatefulness. Trump would have done just the opposite.
GreenEyedLefty
(2,073 posts)Most likely 100% true.