{"id":6238,"date":"2011-05-02T16:15:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T20:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6238"},"modified":"2011-05-02T16:15:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T20:15:51","slug":"pres-obama-mocks-trump-and-self-at-gala-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6238","title":{"rendered":"Pres. Obama Mocks Trump And Self At Gala Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; <strong>President Barack Obama<\/strong> exacted his revenge Saturday after weeks of attacks from his would-be Republican challenger<strong> Donald Trump<\/strong>, joking that the billionaire businessman could bring change to the White House, transforming it from a stately mansion into a tacky casino with a whirlpool in the garden.<\/p>\n<p>With <strong>Trump<\/strong> in attendance, <strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> used the White House Correspondents&#8217; Association annual dinner to mock the reality TV star&#8217;s presidential ambitions. The president said<strong> Trump<\/strong> has shown the acumen of a future president, from firing <strong>Gary Busey<\/strong> on a recent episode of <em>&#8220;Celebrity Apprentice&#8221;<\/em> to focusing so much time on conspiracy theories about <strong>Pres. Obama&#8217;s<\/strong> birthplace.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> took time to rib some of those among the Republicans jostling to succeed him. He said he&#8217;d heard that <strong>Rep. Michele Bachmann<\/strong> of Minnesota was running for president, adding, &#8220;which is weird, because I hear she was born in Canada.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He then singled out <strong>Trump<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>After a week when <strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> released his long-form Hawaii birth certificate, he said <strong>Trump<\/strong> could now focus on the serious issues, from whether the moon landing actually happened to &#8220;where are <strong>Biggie<\/strong> and<strong> Tupac<\/strong>?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than &#8216;the <strong>Donald<\/strong>,'&#8221; <strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> said, referring to Trump&#8217;s claims the same day that he was responsible for solving the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; President Barack Obama exacted his revenge Saturday after weeks of attacks from his would-be Republican challenger Donald Trump, joking that the billionaire businessman could bring change to the White House, transforming it from a stately mansion into a tacky casino with a whirlpool in the garden. With Trump in attendance, Pres. Obama used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}