The rescheduled dinner is taking place tonight. I was watching the awards and it was hilarious seeing Trump squirm while people and organizations got awards for coverage of his atrocities. Kaitlin Collins got one for her coverage of his bad behavior with Zelensky in the Oval Office. The Wall Street Journal got one for their coverage of the Jeffrey Epstein files (mentioning that Trump had sued the WSJ over it). A photographer got one for his photo in the Oval Office when someone had a medical event and Trump just stood there like a complete uncaring psycho. And Trump had to shake their hands after each one. You know he hated that.
I’m not going to bother watching his speech. I’m sure I’ll see coverage of it elsewhere. But I imagine he will go full-on asshole to get back at all of them.
Calling for term limits in Congress, the president attempted a lighthearted joke about a “senator I knew” who got a text from his wife asking for him to “come up the stairs and make love to me, and he said, ‘I can’t do both.’”
“In other words, you can’t go up the stairs and make love,” Trump said. “Does anybody get that one?”
With a hushed reaction from the audience of journalists, Trump said, “I thought that was actually pretty good. That was actually the only thing I thought was good in this whole, frickin, stupid speech they wrote.”
Trump had spent the last several minutes before the joke attacking journalists and political foes, including Democratic leaders in Congress.
Classy as always, just like his chintzy gilding on everything. What a complete and utter buffoon.
Yeah really. The whole deal with wanting to have the POTUS there had turned it already long ago into an event about that one man (whoever it was) instead of about the correspondents.
We had MSNOW on in the background while we were watching things on the DVR. Since it was around our dinner time, we had to stop what we were watching to do cooking stuff, so we saw bits of the dinner. Sound off. Trump was definitely falling asleep even before the speeches.
Why was Caroline Whosits there instead of Melania? And Caroline was wearing pants. HORRORS. Didn’t Trump say he like women to wear only dresses? Later in the evening just before we turned the TV off we saw some of that magician. Was he someone’s nephew or something? He was lame from what we saw. No charisma. Zilch. Very cheap looking set-up.
I saw some of it last night. Rewatched parts of it on youtube just now. At one point he’s going to guess how much money Todd Blanche has in his wallet and somehow pulls in the guy sitting in front of him. Pearlman says “this will be a correspondents dinner you never forget”. And the guy says “You got THAT right”.
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