All posts tagged "White House Correspondents Dinner"

President Donald Trump has lost a long-time talent because of his "cognitive decline," one of his family members said.

During an episode of Fast Politics, host Molly Jong-Fast spoke with Mary Trump, who is the president's niece, a psychologist, and a frequent critic. The two were talking about Trump's speech at Lindsey Graham's funeral and the White House Correspondents' Dinner when Jong-Fast asked if Trump had lost the ability to read the room.

"Did he used to be able to not say the quiet part out loud?" Jong-Fast asked....

CNN's Kaitlan Collins could get the last word against President Donald Trump on Monday night.

Collins will be the guest on Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" after Trump's bizarre attack on the correspondent during the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Friday, The Daily Beast reported.

The reporter has been a long target of criticism by the president and was expected to respond to the president's obsession with her during her appearance on Stewart's show. Stewart has been a vocal opponent of Trump and has often spoken out about him....

President Donald Trump's White House Correspondents' Dinner speech drew sharp criticism from CNN pundits immediately after it finished.

On Friday night, Trump delivered his first speech as president at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, and it took just over an hour. Shortly after it wrapped, CNN pundits tore into it, with conservatives even having trouble defending it.

"It just wasn't funny at all," political commentator Van Jones said. "It just wasn't funny. It was mean and small, but you could be mean and small and funny. This was mean and small and not funny."...

President Donald Trump slammed the writing and jokes in his own speech for the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

On Friday night, Trump delivered an hour-long speech at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, but he wasn't happy with the jokes laced throughout it.

Several times during the speech, Trump asked, "Who the h— wrote this?" One of Trump's jokes used a point about congressional term limits as a setup....

President Donald Trump roasted one of his own Cabinet members with bizarre habits in a moment that drew laughs.

During his speech at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, Trump made fun of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his odd treatment of animals.

"I hope that everyone finally got to enjoy their entire very delicious beef tenderloin, very special beef," Trump said, before pointing to Kennedy and saying he "personally ran over the cow in his car."...

President Donald Trump tried to ease some of the awkward tension at the White House Correspondents' Dinner with a joke about the shooting that disrupted the previous one in April.

Specifically, he made a joke about twerking, and Trinidadian rap star Nicky Minaj, who has emerged as one of Trump's more prominent celebrity supporters.

"After hearing the gunshots, many people yelled, 'get down, get down' which caused Nicki Minaj to start twerking," said the president....