Trump Responds To Obama’s Jokes About Him: ‘He Did A Nice Job’

United States President Barack Obama speaks during the White House Correspondents' Association annual dinner on April 30, 2016 at the Washington Hilton hotel in Washington.This is President Obama's eighth and final W... United States President Barack Obama speaks during the White House Correspondents' Association annual dinner on April 30, 2016 at the Washington Hilton hotel in Washington.This is President Obama's eighth and final White House Correspondents' Association dinner. Credit: Olivier Douliery / Pool via CNP - NO WIRE SERVICE - Photo by: Olivier Douliery/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images MORE LESS
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Sunday that President Obama “did a nice job” at his last White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

Obama had a couple jokes at Trump’s expense. “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace played a couple of them for Trump, including one gag that Trump would be good at foreign policy because he had met with “Miss Sweden” and “Miss Argentina” and that he could successfully close Guantanamo Bay because he had experience running waterfront properties into the ground.

Trump responded that he has “the best waterfront properties in the world so I don’t even know what he’s talking about.”

Trump said he didn’t attend the event, but that his children did. Wallace again asked Trump for his reaction to the jokes.

“Well, I think it was fine. It’s a comedy. It’s fine. I thought he did a nice job, it was good,” Trump said. “I wasn’t there. But I thought he did a nice job.”

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  1. Huh, Trumpzilla at a loss for words…Interesting. I noticed Eric Trump in a cut-away shot, face rigid, eyes locked forward. This focus of national dislike has to be palpable to the observed…the intra family tension must be intense. Wait until June…

  2. Avatar for hjs62 hjs62 says:

    The absolute beat down that The President delivered to Trump a few years back when he was in attendance must still leave a mark. He want’s no part of Obama.

    The President has managed to do something where everybody else has failed. Shut this clown up.

    Thanks Obama!

  3. The dolt was a loss for words so he repeated the few he knew to show he wasn’t humiliated. Again.

    I think it was fine. It’s fine. He did a nice job, He did a nice job.

  4. I’m so looking forward to this fall when Obama starts campaigning for Hillary with his deadly mockery against Trump. Everyday will be the WHCD and Trump will be crushed.

  5. It still kills me how Rubio drawing attention to Trump’s pattern of repeating himself while saying nothing, didn’t catch on. Yes, Christie destroyed Rubio by pointing out Rubio’s robot programming…but IMO,Trump is soo much worse at doing it. And its literally repeating the nonsense, empty words over.

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