Oh, mercy. This could almost be Dinner V 3.0. Trump’s speech. YeaNo. We can pity anyone who managed to sit through this thing. It was dropped on everyone. It was Donnie being Donnie Worse. Just when you think he couldn’t get worse, right? This is the new, UNimproved Donnie. With appreciation for CNN via Raw Story:
On Friday night, Trump delivered his first speech as president at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and it took just over an hour. Shortly after it wrapped, CNN pundits tore into it, with conservatives even having trouble defending it. “It just wasn’t funny at all,” political commentator Van Jones said. “It just wasn’t funny. It was mean and small, but you could be mean and small and funny. This was mean and small and not funny.”
Ouch. That’s harsh. It says that Trump being Trump is even worse than we expected. How many people slithered out within 5 minutes? Trump probably thought it was funny. When he finds out it wasn’t, according to the people there, or the people who watched online, there will be many ketchup explosions. And there will probably be raging. Or, he could go the opposite way and say Fake News, then blow off the reactions completely. We only know that if he hears of this, there will be hell to pay.
CNN anchor Laura Coates said that Trump “shot himself in the foot” by missing an opportunity to speak to people. Jones agreed, saying, “He didn’t talk about any American besides himself and his enemies” when he could have talked about people at home “and maybe make fun of their enemies.” Former Trump White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin said that “even from a performance standpoint” and compared to previous presidents, “he bombed. He objectively bombed.” She also pointed out “missed opportunities.”
Lawdy. Must have been another one of those typical Trump speeches. Bloviate, blather, pontificate, I am so great. Blah, blah, blah, blah. He should have invited some people from MAGA to love and adore him, because probably 98% of the remaining people in the room … didn’t. The scattered applause must have egged him on to keep going with his mean, little speech. He doesn’t need much encouragement.
Conservative CNN pundit Scott Jennings noted that Trump started the speech by denouncing political violence and ended it by saying he respected journalists and people in their profession. “Now the middle of it is going to be controversial because some of the jokes landed and some of the jokes didn’t,” Jennings said, noting he liked Trump’s jab at RFK Jr. during the speech. “Some of the jokes veered off into very, sort of, ornery insults, and that’s not going to land for many audiences.”
Jones made a joke of his own about Trump’s speech, saying, “It was just bomb after bomb after bomb. It’s like, we’re not Iran. We’re the American people. Quit bombing.”
SAVAGE. Oooooo OUCH. On the other hand, does sound like a Trump speech. He really does have a style of his own that no one else (thank heavens) can match. Can he even *be* funny? That’s not necessarily a bad question, because there are those of us who don’t care enough to watch a rally or a speech, so can he actually be funny? Heck, am *I* funny? It’s hard to tell where that line is drawn. We can safely assume that the only person who thinks Donald Trump is funny is Donald Trump. Maybe I’ll look and see if there is a transcript of his speech. Then we can talk some more about bombs.
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