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Miles Archer

(19,924 posts)
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 09:48 AM Thursday

Trump 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.

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Trump never, never, NEVER got over the White House Correspondents Dinner. NEVER. (Original Post) Miles Archer Thursday OP
Please tell us which dinner, when and what was said by whom and why he hasn't gotten over it. Thanks CurtEastPoint Thursday #1
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. Miles Archer Thursday #3
Still doesn't hurt to actually clarify EdmondDantes_ Thursday #6
Please do me a favor, don't lecture me on how to post Miles Archer Thursday #8
It was kind of you to clarify this with the vid. murielm99 Thursday #13
Amen robleb Thursday #16
Sometimes... littlemissmartypants Thursday #30
I have to agree with your view on this DFW Thursday #47
This message was self-deleted by its author live love laugh Thursday #18
Agree. BannonsLiver Thursday #9
Thank you. I appreciate it. CurtEastPoint Thursday #43
I assume the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner EdmondDantes_ Thursday #5
Seriously? I think you're asking a bit too much. live love laugh Thursday #17
White House Correspondents Dinner in 2011 samsingh Thursday #28
I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT DINNER HE'S TALKING ABOUT Mr.Bee Thursday #39
Trump never gets over any perceived insult. Swede Thursday #2
He really is that guy whose growth stopped sometime around middle school Torchlight Thursday #4
I agree. I believe it's what prompted him to run for President surfered Thursday #7
All one need do is see the look on his face during that light roasting. nt Lilithschyld Thursday #10
Goes back much further -- when he was shunned as a vulgar buffoon in Queens PSPS Thursday #11
You have to wonder, considering all that happened after, if Obama would do that if he had to do it over. BlueTsunami2018 Thursday #12
Obama didn't vote for the guy........ MyOwnPeace Thursday #21
I've wondered that myself over the years. Xavier Breath Thursday #38
Yes, I've always had this nagging feeling Disaffected Thursday #14
Brings tears orangecrush Thursday #15
This message was self-deleted by its author LudwigPastorius Thursday #19
That was a major narcissictic injury Loki Thursday #20
Yes - exactly. Well said. nt AnotherMother4Peace Thursday #29
What's REALLY scary is . . . AverageOldGuy Thursday #22
Obama's monolog was MASTERFULL, and to think..... reACTIONary Thursday #23
Maybe he should just fucking die already Orrex Thursday #24
Good catch and good job! I look for you everywhere. May your most fervent wish come true. Your wish is my wish. Ninga Thursday #26
I agree he never got over the roast, and it was well deserved, but I sure wish Obama hadn't done that. Fil1957 Thursday #25
He never gets over anything. He's a steaming stew of revenge-seeking resentment. Sogo Thursday #27
Correct. nt wiggs Thursday #31
Play that in a loop Mz Pip Thursday #32
Tell dumbfuck Tulsi that Obama has immunity. spanone Thursday #33
We need to keep on laughing at trump LetMyPeopleVote Thursday #34
OMG - I love Obama. Vinca Thursday #35
Ivana died after "falling" down a flight of stairs. Trump hated her for her rape/abuse accusation & "bad advice". AnotherMother4Peace Thursday #36
Thanks for posting. We were so fortunate to have President Obama. Holy shit how did we get here? twodogsbarking Thursday #37
Good time Figarosmom Thursday #40
I hadn't watched the clip until 2 days ago Marthe48 Thursday #41
The Tim Scotts and Byron Donalds and other people of the non-white are what used to be called in the South LiberalArkie Thursday #42
To those who wish Obama hadn't delivered that narcissistic wound in 2011: just by his very existence Obama "hurt" Trump Hekate Thursday #44
That's not Obama, that's Nostradamus. twodogsbarking Thursday #45
None of us should Ever, Ever, Ever get over Trump's attempts to harass Obama. thought crime Thursday #46

CurtEastPoint

(19,590 posts)
1. Please tell us which dinner, when and what was said by whom and why he hasn't gotten over it. Thanks
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 09:51 AM
Thursday

Miles Archer

(19,924 posts)
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.
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 09:54 AM
Thursday

EdmondDantes_

(695 posts)
6. Still doesn't hurt to actually clarify
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 09:59 AM
Thursday

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

Miles Archer

(19,924 posts)
8. Please do me a favor, don't lecture me on how to post
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 10:01 AM
Thursday

Thanks in advance and have a nice day.

littlemissmartypants

(28,635 posts)
30. Sometimes...
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 11:47 AM
Thursday

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)
47. I have to agree with your view on this
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 04:10 PM
Thursday

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.

Response to EdmondDantes_ (Reply #6)

BannonsLiver

(19,441 posts)
9. Agree.
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 10:15 AM
Thursday

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

samsingh

(18,118 posts)
28. White House Correspondents Dinner in 2011
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 11:39 AM
Thursday

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)
39. I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT DINNER HE'S TALKING ABOUT
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 12:36 PM
Thursday

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)
2. Trump never gets over any perceived insult.
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 09:51 AM
Thursday

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

(5,199 posts)
4. He really is that guy whose growth stopped sometime around middle school
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 09:55 AM
Thursday

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.

BlueTsunami2018

(4,514 posts)
12. You have to wonder, considering all that happened after, if Obama would do that if he had to do it over.
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 10:31 AM
Thursday

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.

Xavier Breath

(5,900 posts)
38. I've wondered that myself over the years.
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 12:25 PM
Thursday

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?

orangecrush

(25,878 posts)
15. Brings tears
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 11:01 AM
Thursday


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

Response to Miles Archer (Original post)

Loki

(3,827 posts)
20. That was a major narcissictic injury
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 11:14 AM
Thursday

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.

AverageOldGuy

(2,783 posts)
22. What's REALLY scary is . . .
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 11:16 AM
Thursday

. . . 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)
23. Obama's monolog was MASTERFULL, and to think.....
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 11:23 AM
Thursday

..... 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."

Ninga

(8,876 posts)
26. Good catch and good job! I look for you everywhere. May your most fervent wish come true. Your wish is my wish.
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 11:36 AM
Thursday

Fil1957

(151 posts)
25. I agree he never got over the roast, and it was well deserved, but I sure wish Obama hadn't done that.
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 11:28 AM
Thursday

Mz Pip

(28,174 posts)
32. Play that in a loop
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 12:01 PM
Thursday

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

AnotherMother4Peace

(4,795 posts)
36. Ivana died after "falling" down a flight of stairs. Trump hated her for her rape/abuse accusation & "bad advice".
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 12:20 PM
Thursday
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

(14,621 posts)
37. Thanks for posting. We were so fortunate to have President Obama. Holy shit how did we get here?
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 12:22 PM
Thursday

Marthe48

(21,377 posts)
41. I hadn't watched the clip until 2 days ago
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 12:40 PM
Thursday

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)
42. The Tim Scotts and Byron Donalds and other people of the non-white are what used to be called in the South
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 12:52 PM
Thursday

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)
44. To those who wish Obama hadn't delivered that narcissistic wound in 2011: just by his very existence Obama "hurt" Trump
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 01:33 PM
Thursday

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

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thought crime

(559 posts)
46. None of us should Ever, Ever, Ever get over Trump's attempts to harass Obama.
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 03:48 PM
Thursday

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.

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