Why is Obama cracking up? President delivers final White House correspondents' dinner speech
Obama, the “comedian-in-chief” is quite good at roasting others - and himself
In his final performance as stand-up comedy’s commander in chief, US President Obama shticked the landing at the annual White House correspondents’ dinner, cracking wise about the election, his waning days as president and, of course, Donald Trump.
“The Republican establishment is incredulous [Trump] is the nominee,” joked the president during his monologue before 2,600 dinner-goers at the Washington Hilton. “Incredulous. They say he lacks foreign policy experience. But he’s been meeting foreign leaders: Miss Sweden, Miss Argentina, Miss Azerbaijan.”
Trump would succeed in closing the federal prison in Guantanamo, Cuba, the president said, “because he knows a thing or two about running waterfront properties into the ground.”
Noting that former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg was at the dinner, Obama compared him to Trump, another New York billionaire. Bloomberg “knows policy in depth and he’s actually worth the amount of money he says he is,” said Obama, drawing ooohs from the crowd.
Turning on himself, Obama said: “I do apologise that I was a little late tonight. I was running on CPT [coloured people’s time] - which stands for jokes that white people should not make.
