Trump Roast

By Keith Kloor | May 1, 2011 6:53 am

All the money in the world can’t buy you an ounce of humility or self-deprecation. Via the NYT on last night’s White House Correspondent’s dinner last night, which is an annual roasting of the media, the President, and Beltway mores:

As a hair-gelled, grimly unsmiling Mr. Trump sat at a nearby table “” a guest of the Washington Post “” Mr. Obama ripped one punch after another at the real estate tycoon.

“Donald Trump is here tonight,” the comedian in chief said, grinning. “Now, I know that he’s taken some flak lately, but no one is prouder to put this birth certificate to rest than The Donald. Now he can get to focusing on the issues that matter. Like, did we fake the moon landing? What really happened at Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac?”

A healthy serving of Trump roast was also dished out by SNL’s Seth Myers:

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  • http://organizingentropy.typepad.com/blog/ Andy

    That is awesome, thanks.

  • http://rabett.blogspot.com Eli Rabett

    Yes, humor is a cutting sword

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About Keith Kloor

Keith Kloor is a freelance journalist and adjunct professor of journalism at New York University. His work has appeared in Slate, Science, Discover, Nature Climate Change, Archaeology, and Audubon Magazine, among other outlets. From 2000 to 2008, he was a senior editor at Audubon Magazine. In 2008-2009, he was a Fellow at the University of Colorado’s Center for Environmental Journalism, in Boulder, where he studied how a changing environment (including climate change) influenced prehistoric societies in the U.S. Southwest. He covers a wide range of topics, from conservation biology and biotechnology to urban planning and archaeology.

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