Donald Trump pushes back at prez jokes

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By MAGGIE HABERMAN | 5/1/11 12:41 PM EDT Updated: 5/1/11 12:47 PM EDT

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Donald Trump pushed back Sunday at President Barack Obama for making him the "focus of the evening" in his White House Correspondents' Dinner speech, and laced into Saturday Night Live comedian Seth Meyers as a "stutterer" whose delivery was lacking.
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Trump's comments came in a quick phone-in to "Fox and Friends," a day after he sat almost stone-faced while the president and Meyers ripped him repeatedly, to belly laughs from the crowd. People at tables around him gaped at him watching for a reaction, and some of his tablemates wrote on Twitter that it was uncomfortable.

"Well, I really understood what I was getting into — I didn't know that I'd be virtually the sole focus," Trump said. "I guess when you're leading in the polls that sort of thing tends to happen. But I was certainly in a certain way having a good time listening. I don't think the American people are having a good time with $5 gas. ... I was thinking to myself as they were doing this, you know, the American people are really suffering and we're all" having fun at a gala.

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Prior to the dinner, after he strolled the red carpet with his wife Melania, Trump said that he actually didn't think he would get poked by the president.

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[blondeatlast]

1. Too late, Big Top, by about 12 hours. The damage is done--I love the internetz! nt

[seabeyond]

7. yup. bah hahahah. was thinkin the same. nt

[madokie]

50. That makes three of us

President Big Top just doesn't have the right ring to it. :rofl:

[Webster Green]

2. Typical thug.

He can dish it out just fine. It was funny watching how pissed he was. Best part of the show!

[calimary]

47. Indeed! VERY typical bully. Can dish it out alright, but can't take it.

And if donald trump is that reckless, thoughtless, brainless, and incompetent about anticipating trends and reaction to his verbal assaults, how good a "president" could we expect him to be? Swaggering into that banquet telling everybody Obama's not gonna touch him that night? Just what was he drinking in his limo on the way there? Did he arrive at the Correspondents Dinner fresh from frontal lobotomy surgery or something?!?!?

Hey donald-DUMB-ASS, what's gonna happen when you run off at the mouth against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, or Dmitry Medvedev, or Nicolas Sarkozy or China's president Hu Jintao, or some such international figure - and then you strut in somewhere like the UN or some international conference with your bully swagger thinking "I Sure Showed HIM, Didn't I!" Any idea how they might decide to respond, and how catastrophic it might be for our national interests? Probably not, because donald-DUMB-ASS, you're incapable of thinking past the tip of your own nose.

Couldn't even anticipate that you'd be ONE of the targets last night? ONE of the targets, donald dear. Not the sole target. Actually, the whole evening's entertainment did NOT center specifically on you. DANG! That asshole can flatter himself even through other people's insults. I've never seen a case of myopia this bad, and I was born with with a pretty bad case of it!

[RandomThoughts]

3. That would have been the correct decision of President Obama.

Instead of continuing distraction,

He had the high ground saying he was against such distractions.

[Webster Green]

5. He still has the high ground on this one.

Considering the venue, Obama's remarks were perfect.

[RandomThoughts]

45. I just saw his comment.

It was not directed at Donald, which is better form, interesting that he got Disney into the conversation, that is significant and a different topic then the Birth Certificate topic. So it does not have the form of distraction.

Because of the works Disney did, you can see the comment as a better comment, not about the person himself, but about the many stories and morale tales he helped tell to society, although not perfect, he addresses many better ways of thought and feeling in his stories.

[seabeyond]

8. it is a yearly event, like tree lighting and easter egg hunt. i guess everything can be eleminated

and then one can use that argument.

[blondeatlast]

49. The White House isn't even the host--the Correspondents Association is.

It's a tradition to invite the President and it would be VERY bad form for the Prez not to attend.

[bahrbearian]

33. So true. But I did get a good laugh from it , Its either Laugh or Cry from now on.

[sasha031]

4. of yes trump is so in tuned to peoples suffering

:crazy:

[Botany]

9. He is a man of the people

The upgrades won't come cheap for players. Although the improved course will still be open to the public — unlike Trump's other clubs,
which carry hefty $300,000 membership fees and annual dues of $15,000 — the privilege of playing 18 holes will set golfers back $195
to $300, course managers say

http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2004-09-10-trump-golf_x.htm

[brewens]

6. Bitching about the gala might work, if you hadn't gone! $5 gas.

Propose what should be done to drop the price now! Not drill baby drill, that might have minimal effect sometime in the future.

Big oil doesn't have to be charging us that much and everyone knows it. They are, because they can. Nothing at all from The Donald or any of the Teabaggers on what to do about it. If they don't want to lower the price, we need to MAKE THEM WANT TO!

[TTUBatfan2008]

20. His proposal for gas prices...

is to tell OPEC, "You're not gonna raise that fuckin' price!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkVH4z5Aazw

[RickFromMN]

26. Thank you for the link to the video. Does this mean Trump would send troops into Saudi Arabia?

I don't see how else Trump could prevent Saudi Arabia from raising oil prices.
How many troops will it take, who will pay for the invasion, and how long will it last?

[jwirr]

40. Plus I do not see the rest of the world setting by while he did this. They

do not want their oil stopped because a bully from the US wants to look big.

[Old and In the Way]

10. Poor The Donald!

First the BC release, then the total humiliation at the WHCD. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

[Trajan]

11. Trump's friends in the corporate world are the very same pumping the price to $5 gal

And his other friends in the medical insurance industry have been ripping off American consumers for decades ....

He IS them ....

Dump the Trump ....

[emulatorloo]

Yes it is very "convenient" for that crowd to blame Obama for the manipulated gas prices.

Just as it is easy for Ryan to take away money for Seniors and give it to Oil Companies in the form of more tax breaks.

[benld74]

12. Trump was the Effin joke even BEFORE the Potus push!

[tularetom]

13. He didn't think he would get poked by the President?

Who the fuck is he kidding? These dinners are if nothing else very topical, they focus on whatever is in the news and Trump with the aid of his army of sycophantic media whores has busted his ass to be right in the middle of the news for at least the past two months.

He's either a liar or very naive. Did he think the president would lay off him because he, Trump, is such a figure of universsl respect and admiration? The guy's a joke, he always has been and all his self promotion has reminded anyone who forgot what a joke he was.

And now he's going to dig himself in even deeper because he just can't let it drop.

[safeinOhio]

14. Seems Republicans that want to be

bad asses have pretty thin skins. Sarah and the Donald, anyway.

[blueamy66]

15. Like that baboon gives a rat's ass

about the American public paying $5 for gas. Bet he arrived in a big-ass limo or Range
Rover.

[bullwinkle428]

27. He most likely arrived in the "Trump-icopter":

But I'm sure it's VERY fuel-efficient! The suckers paying for his shit have got that fuel bill COVERED.

[blueamy66]

31. :-)

You're probably right.

I cannot imagine what his "hair" looks like after running outta that helicopter with those blades running!

[emulatorloo]

36. I've seen a much better picture of that press conference

http://5.mshcdn.com.nyud.net:8090/wp-content/gallery/frowning-flower-girl/ffg6.jpg

As seen at

FROWNY FLOWER GIRL MEETS TRUMP
http://www.kittyfartsonline.com/2011/04/frowny-flower-girl-meets-trump.html

[SpiralHawk]

16. What a whiner. Typical Republicon chickenhawk. Whiner up the wazoo.

Hey Trumpy -- nobody gives a shit about your Republicon whining. Lighten up. They were jokes. You know, like you: jokes.

[Faygo Kid]

17. What a horse's patoot. Used to getting his butt kissed all day long. Not here at DU, Donald.

He goes through every day worshipped by sycophants, like every other CEO in the U.S.

Welcome to reality, you jerk. This is what you will always be remembered for, not your tacky casinos or crappy TV shows. Nice job.

[spanone]

18. it's all about don to don. egomaniac prick.

[Tarheel_Dem]

23. But we keep talking about him. That's what he wants. Trump is a two

year old who's desparate when no one is paying attention to him. He doesn't seem to care if it's negative attention, as long as we're talking about him. I hope Trumpapalooza is winding down, and we can all move on to something else.

[Diamonique]

19. Gas prices?

Gas prices were high when Trump was doing his nationwide birther stunt, but he wasn't worried about gas prices then, was he?

What a jackass!

[TatonkaJames]

21. Another foolish reply

"you know, the American people are really suffering and we're all" having fun at a gala."

Then why did you go ? You could have stayed home or toured the tornado damaged
country, but you chose to be bashed, (like you were unaware it would happen) because
your need for front page space is unlimited.
What a buffoon.

[dkf]

22. Hmm he might actually run after this.

[seabeyond]

28. i was thinking last night, listening and watching, this might make him serious

and what fun that will be

when one allows ego to rule..... can be a sight

[somone]

24. While the American people are suffering

[adigal]

44. He can fit lots of starving Americans in that place!!

Heck, just the foyer can fit lots of tent families. Donald, open those doors!!! Let us in!!!

[A-Schwarzenegger]

25. Never trust nobody who can't laugh at himself

or his hair. :*

[Fuzz]

29. Anyone notice that no one over there labels themselves as a republican?

I'm talking about in the comments section. There are Democrats, Independents /cough and Libertarians, but not one Republican. They label themselves as 'conservative'.

Interesting.

[Kablooie]

30. Ah yes. He was thinking about the trials of the common man while they were tearing into him.

How magnanimous of him.

[graywarrior]

32. Hell is people via the tubes of the internets, Donnie

[IDemo]

34. "I was certainly in a certain way having a good time listening"

That's giving it the ol' Palin retwittal!

[WinkyDink]

35. An egotist would have enjoyed the Presidential attention.

[DCBob]

37. Actually Trump was thinking "how do I strangle this mf'ker without getting arrested?"

Pathetic loser.

[autorank]

38. Trump "virtually the sole focus," - nonsense k*r

I just watched the entire speech by Obama. It was literally perfect. The opening with, "i am a real American" or whatever that song is combined with the pulsating birth certificate was hilarious. The test and the jabs were well written and delivered. The 'Lion King' piece was the best, imho.

The personal attacks on Obama are an outrage, disgusting, and dangerous. This response was comprehensive and in exactly the right tone - the purveyors of the lies are a complete joke.

Trump is done, stick a fork in him.

(Oh, and so is Mitt, my God!)

[MaeScott]

39. As my dear departed mother would say.........

..."tough titty, suck it up."

[jillan]

41. He should've laughed. idiot.

[Maru Kitteh]

42. Trump is dumb enough to think that calling someone a stutterer is a put-down.

Pathetic.

[auntsue]

43. Trump bitching about gas prices? He probably has

a good bit of oil co, stock in his portfolio - so the higher price means more $$$ for him.

[joeybee12]

46. This guy's skin is as thin as his hair...nt

[wildeyed]

48. Right, like Donald Trump give a damn about the American people

or $5 gas. He is rich, arrogant and only gives a shit about his own huge ego.

[IDemo]

51. Another one ill-equipped for the 3:00 am phone calls n/t