The White House Correspondent's dinner is a long-running Washington tradition, a way for politicians and the journalists who cover them to unwind for an evening in sympatico. But this year, it was mostly a chance for everyone to pile on Donald Trump and his "enormous balls." Well, Trump was absolutely flattered to be the "sole focus" of the night, but he just feels the pain of the American people too much to take any real pleasure in the yuks: "I guess when you're leading in the polls that sort of thing tends to happen. But I was certainly in a certain way having a good time listening. I don't think the American people are having a good time with $5 gas...I was thinking to myself as they were doing this, you know, the American people are really suffering," he told "Fox and Friends" today.
Trump, who was booed when he arrived at the dinner, definitely didn't look like he was having a fun time during the impromptu-roast; the camera caught him looking dead-eyed during several of the monologues. "I had no idea it would be to that extent, where you know, it was just joke after joke after joke. It was almost like, is there anyone else they could talk about?" he humbly opined. Trump did praise President Obama's jokes, but had some tough advice for Seth Meyers: "I thought Seth's delivery was terrible. He had marbles in his mouth. His presentation was not good. The president was far superior."
Trump also defended his F-bomb-laden Las Vegas speech from this past week, which he was almost universally criticized for...although he didn't see it that way: "Well, it was a speech in Las Vegas, in front of a rough group of folks, and a great group of folks, and I got standing ovation...It was really well received. The fact is it's a word of emphasis with that group. Probably I won't do it anymore, to be honest with you."
