"Obama referred to Trump's presidential ambitions by joking that, if elected, Trump would bring some changes to the White House. Obama then called attention to a satirical photo the guests could see of a remodeled White House with the words "Trump" and "The White House" in large purple letters, followed by the words "hotel," "casino," and "golf course." Obama's ridicule of Trump that evening has been credited with inspiring Trump to run for president in 2016."
"My book, The Art of the Political Putdown, includes Obama's chiding of Trump at the correspondents' dinner to demonstrate how politicians use humor to establish superiority over a rival. Obama's ridicule humiliated Trump, who temporarily dropped the birther conspiracy before reviving it. But Trump may have gotten the last laugh by using the humiliation of that night, as some think, as motivation in his run for the presidency in 2016."
"There is a further twist to Obama joking about Trump's renovations to the White House if Trump became president. Trump has fulfilled Obama's prediction, kind of. The Trump administration has razed the East Wing, which sits adjacent to the White House, and will replace it with a 90,000-square-foot, gold-encrusted ballroom that appears to reflect the ostentatious tastes of the president."
Barack Obama publicly ridiculed Donald Trump in April 2011 at the White House correspondents' dinner over Trump's repeated false claims that Obama was not born in the United States. Obama displayed a satirical image of a remodeled White House labeled "Trump" and "The White House" and jokingly referred to a hotel, casino, and golf course. The ridicule embarrassed Trump, who temporarily dropped the birther conspiracy before reviving it, and may have helped motivate his 2016 presidential run. The Trump administration later razed the East Wing and planned a 90,000-square-foot, gold-encrusted ballroom reportedly costing US$300 million and able to seat nearly a thousand people.
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