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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Fri Apr 5, 2019, 12:03 PM Apr 2019

Trump will skip WH Correspondents Dinner so he can hold a "big" MAGAt rally. So unexpected!

President Donald Trump confirmed Friday he will skip the “boring” White House correspondents’ dinner later this month, saying he’ll hold a rally instead.

Trump, who launches almost daily verbal attacks on what he considers a hostile media, has missed the two previous sessions of the annual get-together in Washington.

Asked if he’d go to this year’s gathering, on April 27, he told reporters at the White House that “the dinner is so boring and so negative that we’re going to hold a very positive rally.”

Trump said his rally, in a still undecided location, will be “a big one.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/04/trump-confirms-will-skip-boring-white-house-correspondents-dinner/
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Trump will skip WH Correspondents Dinner so he can hold a "big" MAGAt rally. So unexpected! (Original Post) Miles Archer Apr 2019 OP
too fragile to take a little needling NewJeffCT Apr 2019 #1
The big dumb fat Nazi and his stupid rallies dalton99a Apr 2019 #2
Shocker. Done the same the last two years. bearsfootball516 Apr 2019 #3
Bawk bawk, buh-kawk! gratuitous Apr 2019 #4
When Obama nailed his ass he turned his filthy disgusting sociopathic brain into Eliot Rosewater Apr 2019 #5
It's time to do away with the Correspondents Dinner anyway lunatica Apr 2019 #6
I wish they'd do a Rifftrax on that rally. nolabear Apr 2019 #7
I had to look it up lunatica Apr 2019 #10
They should just display a screen with Trumps insane tweets and ridicule them Freethinker65 Apr 2019 #8
Right! That's what Rifftrax is. It would be brilliant. nolabear Apr 2019 #15
The dinner would be boring and negative if you were present. lpbk2713 Apr 2019 #9
Please stay out of Ohio Ohiogal Apr 2019 #11
They should invite Obama toddwv Apr 2019 #12
The correspondents haven't invited a comedian rusty fender Apr 2019 #13
An analogy... Takket Apr 2019 #14
+1000 smirkymonkey Apr 2019 #16

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
5. When Obama nailed his ass he turned his filthy disgusting sociopathic brain into
Fri Apr 5, 2019, 12:20 PM
Apr 2019

overdrive

He is afraid of everything and everyone other than small women when he is alone with them, he will attack them but nobody else.

Jesus fucking krist, what are we doing SITTING here TALKING about this...

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
6. It's time to do away with the Correspondents Dinner anyway
Fri Apr 5, 2019, 12:31 PM
Apr 2019

Journalism is the 4th Estate who’s job is to hold the authority figures accountable to the people. Not to kiss authority figures’ asses.

I used to enjoy it, but Trump and Fox News and Radical Right Wing radio have shown me there can be no friendship in the relationship between the press and the President or any other elected official in a true Democracy.

Sure it was wonderful to hear President Obama nail Trump’s ass to the wall, but if the press had done it’s job Trump would have never gained ground with his birtherism shit in the first place. Nor would he be President today. I would rather they had done their job.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
10. I had to look it up
Fri Apr 5, 2019, 12:39 PM
Apr 2019

but that’s a great idea! The rallies are kinda bad woowoo fiction anyway, and with cancer causing wind mills, there’s a smattering of bad science fiction too.

Freethinker65

(10,024 posts)
8. They should just display a screen with Trumps insane tweets and ridicule them
Fri Apr 5, 2019, 12:37 PM
Apr 2019

Then for the finale...play the recent one mocking Joe Biden and have Joe walk out live on stage and poke fun at himself. Show how a real man can handle humor. Then have Joe joined by all of the other Democratic nominees presenting a check to the charity.


That would pretty much overshadow anything that happens at Trump's canned rally.

lpbk2713

(42,759 posts)
9. The dinner would be boring and negative if you were present.
Fri Apr 5, 2019, 12:38 PM
Apr 2019



So for once you made a good call.

Sorry to hear you intend to inflict your assholery on another group of people.

 

rusty fender

(3,428 posts)
13. The correspondents haven't invited a comedian
Fri Apr 5, 2019, 01:41 PM
Apr 2019

Keynote speaker to the dinner for a couple of years. They caved to the right-wing snowflakes who cried about being made fun of by the “democrat” comedians. So, what is the point of the dinner now

Takket

(21,577 posts)
14. An analogy...
Fri Apr 5, 2019, 01:49 PM
Apr 2019

Upon finding out his crush was already going to the prom with another guy, Little Donny two scoops declared the prom to be boring, and said he didn’t want to go anyway. Donny will be holding a rally with his gi joe action figures, teddy bear, and that magazine he found at the bottom of dad’s nightstand instead.

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