Trump never, never, NEVER got over the White House Correspondents Dinner. NEVER.

[Miles Archer]

I think we've all known someone who had an experience they did not enjoy...nothing life-threatening, no major tragedy as society might define it. And, YEARS after it happened, when they talk about it, it's with a rage and level of defiance that makes you think "FFS...you STILL haven't gotten over that?"

WE KNOW how Trump feels about Black people. I'm not talking about the Tim Scotts and Byron Donalds who carry his water and stroke his ego and live in eternal hope of a reward he's NEVER GOING TO GIVE THEM.

I'm talking about the African American apartment seekers who applied for an apartment in Fred's buildings, when Donald was first starting out, and had their applications marked with a big "C" for colored. (they settled the lawsuit out of court and "claimed victory" after the wrote the check, because they were ordered to pay up, "without admitting guilt" ).

Or the Central Park Five, and Trump's full page NYT ad calling for their execution...no retraction or apology when they were found to be innocent.

And he feels the same way about Obama.

I've mentioned this many times...all of Trump's ghost written books have a passage, and sometimes an entire chapter, on the importance of "revenge," but specifically "hitting back 10 times harder."

Trump is well aware of the sentence that follows a guilty verdict for treason.

And in his sick, demented, poisoned, sociopathic brain, it's the only "justice" that can right the wrong of a Black man getting laughs at his expense.

So when Lady Skunk Hair is spewing her bullshit about bringing up Obama on "treason charges," WE KNOW EXACTLY WHY THIS DELIGHTS TRUMP.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Please tell us which dinner, when and what was said by whom and why he hasn't gotten over it. Thanks

[Miles Archer]

3. It's been discussed hundreds of times on DU, and I assumed it's common knowledge, but I put the vid in the OP for you.

[EdmondDantes_]

6. Still doesn't hurt to actually clarify

Obama has mocked Trump on more than 1 occasion. Not everyone is in your head.

[Miles Archer]

8. Please do me a favor, don't lecture me on how to post

Thanks in advance and have a nice day.

[murielm99]

13. It was kind of you to clarify this with the vid.

[robleb]

16. Amen

[littlemissmartypants]

30. Sometimes...

The paternalistic pedantic finger wagging is OTT here. I often wonder that if all here aren't autonomous adults who have free will then what are we? It sure gets old in a hurry. That, I don't wonder about.

Your fast, fair and firm reply is a model for us all.

Thank you. ❤️

[DFW]

47. I have to agree with your view on this

This was one of the most significant political events in US political history of the 21st century. It was the one event that needled Trump's fragile ego and unforgiving grudge holding to the point where he assembled a revenge campaign that was the most expensive and most corrupt in US history (with the most catastrophic result). Trump had never been forced to endure such humiliating ridicule probably in his whole adult life, and he had to do it on camera and in the White House of all places. The revenge he must have sworn under his breath that evening ended up souring the course of US history from that moment onward. It was not a minor incident of US history. It was more like a turning point, understood by few at the time, but recognized by the whole world afterward.

Considering the consequences, it was not a minor incident, but rather one of monumental aftermath. Had Trump not been obsessed with thought of revenge ever since that event, I am quite certain he never would have entertained the thought of running for the presidency.

[BannonsLiver]

9. Agree.

One would have had to be living in seclusion at this point to not know. Maybe get with the program, folks.

[CurtEastPoint]

43. Thank you. I appreciate it.

[EdmondDantes_]

5. I assume the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner

https://time.com/3991301/donald-trump-barack-obama/

Mocking Trump over the birther nonsense and such.

[live love laugh]

17. Seriously? I think you're asking a bit too much.

[samsingh]

28. White House Correspondents Dinner in 2011

Seth Myers and President Obama made fun of trump and the birther movement.

its on youtube

C-SPAN: Seth Meyers remarks at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner

[Mr.Bee]

39. I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT DINNER HE'S TALKING ABOUT

That's why we have trump as precedent. people with short memories.
no I can't call him 'president, he is a precedent.

[Swede]

2. Trump never gets over any perceived insult.

The short fingered vulgarian.

"Like so many bullies, Trump has skin of gossamer," Carter wrote in November.

"To this day, I receive the occasional envelope from Trump. There is always a photo of him—generally a tear sheet from a magazine. On all of them he has circled his hand in gold Sharpie in a valiant effort to highlight the length of his fingers," Carter wrote. "I almost feel sorry for the poor fellow because, to me, the fingers still look abnormally stubby."

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/history-donald-trump-small-hands-insult/story?id=37395515

[Torchlight]

4. He really is that guy whose growth stopped sometime around middle school

It took me years, but I've finally figured out how to understand the guy when he talks: I imagine an eleven year old tweaked out on seven cans of monster, prepping for a math test tomorrow. After doing that, I can get a much better sense of his meaning.

[surfered]

7. I agree. I believe it's what prompted him to run for President

[Lilithschyld]

10. All one need do is see the look on his face during that light roasting. nt

[PSPS]

11. Goes back much further -- when he was shunned as a vulgar buffoon in Queens

[BlueTsunami2018]

12. You have to wonder, considering all that happened after, if Obama would do that if he had to do it over.

That’s really what pushed that asshole to run for President. Or was he going to do it anyway with the Putin push and the P25 guys agenda?

Either way, while funny, the end results are disastrous.

[MyOwnPeace]

21. Obama didn't vote for the guy........

it's the 70million+ that did this to us.......

[Xavier Breath]

38. I've wondered that myself over the years.

But people here can get bent out of shape over that. BuT wHy ArE yOu BlAmInG oBaMa?!!!

I believe it's a legit question to ask given what I perceive as a decent likelihood that, without his ego being shattered that evening, he doesn't run. My .02, but who knows?

[Disaffected]

14. Yes, I've always had this nagging feeling

that that was what did it.

[orangecrush]

15. Brings tears

How could the country that elected class and intelligence on the scale of Obama do this to itself?

[Loki]

20. That was a major narcissictic injury

skillfully delivered in front of millions of people on national television by an elegant, educated black man named Barack Obama. He can't ever forget that one, and this concerted years-long effort to destroy him will be the thing that contributes to Trump's downfall.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

29. Yes - exactly. Well said. nt

[AverageOldGuy]

22. What's REALLY scary is . . .

. . . the people who voted for him are just as evil, just as focused on revenge for what they perceive to be even the least slight.

And there are at least 70,000,000 of them out there. Most of them have guns.

I lived for 18 years in rural VA -- I know some of them and they scare the shit out of me (and I'm a veteran of a year in the bush in Vietnam where people were trying to kill me),

[reACTIONary]

23. Obama's monolog was MASTERFULL, and to think.....

..... He delivered that while the operation against bin Laden was in progress.

"A president has to be able to do more than one thing at a time."

[Orrex]

24. Maybe he should just fucking die already

[Ninga]

26. Good catch and good job! I look for you everywhere. May your most fervent wish come true. Your wish is my wish.

[Fil1957]

25. I agree he never got over the roast, and it was well deserved, but I sure wish Obama hadn't done that.

[Sogo]

27. He never gets over anything. He's a steaming stew of revenge-seeking resentment.

nt

[wiggs]

31. Correct. nt

[Mz Pip]

32. Play that in a loop

Get one of those video billboard and play this in a loop outside Mar a Lago.

[spanone]

33. Tell dumbfuck Tulsi that Obama has immunity.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

34. We need to keep on laughing at trump

[Vinca]

35. OMG - I love Obama.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

36. Ivana died after "falling" down a flight of stairs. Trump hated her for her rape/abuse accusation & "bad advice".

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/24/documenting-trumps-abuse-of-women
Documenting Trump’s Abuse of Women
- snip -
For his 1993 book, “The Lost Tycoon,” Harry Hurt III acquired Ivana’s divorce deposition, in which she stated that Trump raped her.
The part of the book that caused the most controversy concerns Trump’s divorce from his first wife, Ivana. Hurt obtained a copy of her sworn divorce deposition, from 1990, in which she stated that, the previous year, her husband had raped her in a fit of rage. In Hurt’s account, Trump was furious that a “scalp reduction” operation he’d undergone to eliminate a bald spot had been unexpectedly painful. Ivana had recommended the plastic surgeon. In retaliation, Hurt wrote, Trump yanked out a handful of his wife’s hair, and then forced himself on her sexually. Afterward, according to the book, she spent the night locked in a bedroom, crying; in the morning, Trump asked her, “with menacing casualness, ‘Does it hurt?’ ” Trump has denied both the rape allegation and the suggestion that he had a scalp-reduction procedure. Hurt said that the incident, which is detailed in Ivana’s deposition, was confirmed by two of her friends.

Hurt held on to his copy of Ivana’s sealed deposition for years. “It was sworn testimony,” he said. But eventually, when he was cleaning house during his own divorce, he said, “I threw it all out.” He went on, “The larger tragedy is that Trump might be elected President of the United States. I never imagined in my wildest nightmares that it would come to this.”

- snip -

[twodogsbarking]

37. Thanks for posting. We were so fortunate to have President Obama. Holy shit how did we get here?

[Figarosmom]

40. Good time

For Obama to take a world tour. For a good long while.

[Marthe48]

41. I hadn't watched the clip until 2 days ago

when DUer BigmanPigman posted it in the Humor Forum. In a subsequent post, they pointed out that while President Obama was addressing the WH correspondents, bin Laden was on the way out.

If it had been traitor felon rapist addressing the WH correspondents, he would've blabbed every detail about any covert operation occurring while he had the mike. And then he would've shown how good he is at sucking on a mike.

[LiberalArkie]

42. The Tim Scotts and Byron Donalds and other people of the non-white are what used to be called in the South

the "House Ni**ers" Those that did the bidding of the master to benefit themselves. The master would always have beat the HN to death is it was so hard to train another up.

There are plenty of HN that work in businesses that will run to the boss with anything that might incriminate another worker if they thought the boss would give them a little pat on the head.

[Hekate]

44. To those who wish Obama hadn't delivered that narcissistic wound in 2011: just by his very existence Obama "hurt" Trump

The Correspondents’ Dinner was, in its way, a stroke of genius, altho I cringed every time the cameras panned over to Trump’s table and revealed him stewing and plotting bloody vengeance.

“Barack Hussein Obama — you’ve heard of him?” said Trump in his heavy sarcastic voice to the press when he just recently accused Obama of treason, which carries the death penalty — is everything Trump never was and never will be, including having well-shaped long fingered hands.

Former President Obama is a statesman. But long before he was POTUS he was elegant, had impeccable manners, was at ease in any company, highly intelligent, ethical, dear God how I miss him. Obama is tall, slender, handsome. He was not born to wealth, but he was born of intelligent people who valued education and worked hard to gain it. Neither his mother nor his father had a rich daddy who could endow a building at an elite college so they could get in with sketchy grades and then pay others to do their work. His own dad was absent, but his mom and his grandparents raised him modestly and well. Did I mention how much I miss him?

As for Trump and his crooked dad and granddad, enough said. Except this: Trump was raised to despise POC, especially Black, and to do everything in his power to put them down and keep them down. They were lesser beings than trumps.

Then along came Barack Hussein Obama, a Black American who was and is everything Donald Trump could never hope to be. THAT is the source of the “wound” and of the hatred and desire for vengeance. Not just the public humiliation of the roast at the Correspondents Dinner, which was just the frosting on the shit cake that is Donald Trump’s brain.

Trump is dangerous, always has been. Now he’s unleashed.




Just in case, here it is again

?si=yeHyOPMp4LRDgs4O

[twodogsbarking]

45. That's not Obama, that's Nostradamus.

[thought crime]

46. None of us should Ever, Ever, Ever get over Trump's attempts to harass Obama.

Either then, with the birth certificate Bullshit, or now, with the "Russia Russia Russia" Bullshit. This crosses a Red Line that no decent person should ever tolerate.