Each year in the days leading up to the dinner I question why I want to spend another Saturday night away from the kids yet come Sunday morning I am up for another year (not to mention a Bloody Mary chaser). This year was particularly good; not only because it is an honor and a treat to be included but because this President happens to be very funny. This is not a political view (although I am conscious of blurring what I find funny with what I agree with politically) but a comedic one based on how well the President delivers his lines and even quite endearingly laughs at this own jokes.
This year the “official” comedian was Seth Myers of Saturday Night fame and he was also very funny. The one theme that linked both the President’s and Myers’ routines was an absolute Navy Seal attack on Donald Trump. Now normally my respect for minority groups like the follicly-challenged would cause me to rush to the defense of the Donald but in truth his behavior has been absolutely indefensible — especially his recent embrace of the “birther” attack on President Obama. This surely surpasses all his prior comb-over antics including the “Tour de Trump” bike race and his thrice-bankrupted Trump casino properties in Atlantic City.
Here is what the President had to say Saturday night:
“Donald Trump is here tonight. Now I know that he’s taken some flak lately but no one is happier no one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than the Donald. And that’s because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter — like did we fake the moon landing? What really happened in Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac? “
Seth Myers was no less on target:
“And then of course there’s Donald Trump. Donald Trump has been saying he will run for President as a Republican which is surprising since I just assumed he was running as a joke. Donald Trump often appears on Fox which is ironic because a Fox often appears on Donald Trump’s head. If you’re at the Washington Post table with Trump and you can’t finish your entree don’t worry – the Fox will eat it… Donald Trump said recently he has a great relationship with the blacks but unless the blacks are a family of white people I bet he is mistaken. I like that Trump is filthy rich but nobody told his accent. His whole life is models and gold leaf and marble columns but he still sounds like a know-it-all down at the OTB.”
Now the one thing most Democrats and Republicans can agree upon is that the Donald is unelectable but I have to admit the comedian in me relishes the thought of four years of Trump Presidential press conferences – provided I can watch them from whatever other country admits me as a citizen.
Tom- This post really made me laugh ! I remembered you as funny—not hysterical. Well done. And yes thankfully the lastest news is a blessing. My best Louis
I am glad a person who is so distinguished in the more ‘official’ world (especially given your title & position and that of Reuters itself) was able to laugh about this. I watched the event after the fact via video and it was equally as hilarious as you perceived. Anyway I really hope you are attending the g8 Summit going on now. I also hope you blog about your thoughts on it. I am watching the live stream intermittently and it is rather stuck up its own a** (for lack of a better statement) but hopefully you come away with a better/different viewpoint. Best Dain
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It is pretty easy to take a shot at Trump and he is a big boy and will either take his lumps or learn to take them. I haven’t a lot of sympathy or respect for him but there really is a bigger question here and that is what is the responsibility of the fourth estate in matters such as these? Why does a snuck like Trump get to ride an issue like this in the first place and why does a candidate and then president get to decide who will see his birth certificate and who won’t and when? As the head of one of the largest news gathering organizations in the world tell me why Reuters did not lay this issue to rest two years ago and what real reporting apart from reading Dreams From My Father your news organization has done? we certainly have the least documented president in history. none of his school records bar exam results have ever been made public. He was Editor of the Harvard Law Review but there is not a single article with his name on it. We are not sure if he graded on or wrote his way on. We don’t know how he payed for college and his legislative history is scant indeed. Now there is nothing necessarily sinister about any of that except that the same media including your organization that was at the correspondents diner probably would not let another candidate blow off any of those questions so easily and that fact brings the credibility of all news gathering into question. Yes the president is a funny and charming and well spoken fellow and no one can read from a pair of re EPROM Tera better than he can. But your job as a leader of the fourth estate is not to take him at face value but rather to either establish his bonafides or knock them down. that means you are the one that should have dug that birth certificate up. had you done your job we would have been spared The Donald’s extra 15 minutes of fame.
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I also hope you blog about your thoughts on it. I think many could benefit from reading your blog therefore I am subscribing to it and telling all my friends. none of his school records bar exam results have ever been made public. He was Editor of the Harvard Law Review but there is not a single article with his name on it. We are not sure if he graded on or wrote his way on. But your job as a leader of the fourth estate is not to take him at face value but rather to either establish his bonafides or knock them down. that means you are the one that should have dug that birth certificate up.
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