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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump never, never, NEVER got over the White House Correspondents Dinner. NEVER.
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
(19,590 posts)Miles Archer
(19,924 posts)EdmondDantes_
(695 posts)Obama has mocked Trump on more than 1 occasion. Not everyone is in your head.
Miles Archer
(19,924 posts)Thanks in advance and have a nice day.
murielm99
(32,172 posts)littlemissmartypants
(28,635 posts)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
(58,592 posts)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.
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BannonsLiver
(19,441 posts)One would have had to be living in seclusion at this point to not know. Maybe get with the program, folks.
CurtEastPoint
(19,590 posts)EdmondDantes_
(695 posts)Mocking Trump over the birther nonsense and such.
live love laugh
(15,687 posts)samsingh
(18,118 posts)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
(1,064 posts)That's why we have trump as precedent. people with short memories.
no I can't call him 'president, he is a precedent.
Swede
(36,892 posts)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 himgenerally 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
(5,199 posts)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
(8,188 posts)Lilithschyld
(76 posts)PSPS
(14,750 posts)BlueTsunami2018
(4,514 posts)Thats 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
(17,355 posts)it's the 70million+ that did this to us.......
Xavier Breath
(5,900 posts)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
(5,784 posts)that that was what did it.
orangecrush
(25,878 posts)How could the country that elected class and intelligence on the scale of Obama do this to itself?
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Loki
(3,827 posts)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
(4,795 posts)AverageOldGuy
(2,783 posts). . . 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
(6,602 posts)..... 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
(65,655 posts)Ninga
(8,876 posts)
Fil1957
(151 posts)Sogo
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wiggs
(8,321 posts)Mz Pip
(28,174 posts)Get one of those video billboard and play this in a loop outside Mar a Lago.
spanone
(139,721 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(166,964 posts)Vinca
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AnotherMother4Peace
(4,795 posts)Documenting Trumps Abuse of Women
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For his 1993 book, The Lost Tycoon, Harry Hurt III acquired Ivanas divorce deposition, in which she stated that Trump raped her.
The part of the book that caused the most controversy concerns Trumps 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 Hurts account, Trump was furious that a scalp reduction operation hed 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 wifes 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 Ivanas deposition, was confirmed by two of her friends.
Hurt held on to his copy of Ivanas 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.
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twodogsbarking
(14,621 posts)Figarosmom
(7,251 posts)For Obama to take a world tour. For a good long while.
Marthe48
(21,377 posts)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
(18,653 posts)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
(98,680 posts)The Correspondents Dinner was, in its way, a stroke of genius, altho I cringed every time the cameras panned over to Trumps table and revealed him stewing and plotting bloody vengeance.
Barack Hussein Obama youve 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 Trumps brain.
Trump is dangerous, always has been. Now hes unleashed.
Just in case, here it is again
twodogsbarking
(14,621 posts)thought crime
(559 posts)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.