Trump gives rambling, insult-filled remarks at correspondents’ dinner and even turns against his own speechwriters. ‘Am I supposed to be a comedian?’
“That was going to be a doozy,” Trump said about the speech he’d been prepared to give in April, before a gunman upended the original dinner and forced its postponement. “As I said three months ago, the show must go on,” the president said to begin his remarks, hailing the decision to reschedule the dinner. He referred to “the attempted mass murder” that could have happened that night in April, but then moved largely to humor — and, increasingly, insults.
- ▪“That was going to be a doozy,” Trump said about the speech he’d been prepared to give in April, before a gunman upended the original dinner and forced its postponement.
- ▪“As I said three months ago, the show must go on,” the president said to begin his remarks, hailing the decision to reschedule the dinner.
- ▪He referred to “the attempted mass murder” that could have happened that night in April, but then moved largely to humor — and, increasingly, insults.
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President Donald Trump returned to the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Friday night, delivering a rambling, hourlong speech that praised some journalists, took potshots at others, made jokes about public figures’ weight and intellect, and quipped about a third presidential term.Recommended Video He assured the crowd of journalists, though, that he’d scrapped the most biting parts of his remarks. “That was going to be a doozy,” Trump said about the speech he’d been prepared to give in April, before a gunman upended the original dinner and forced its postponement. “As I said three months ago, the show must go on,” the president said to begin his remarks, hailing the decision to reschedule the dinner.
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