On Saturday night, President Barack Obama attended his last White House Correspondents’ Dinner. His speech allowed him to take shots at everything and everyone, and he didn’t spare the democrats.
Hillary Clinton has been attacked constantly by Bernie Sanders over the millions she has earned to speaking to Wall Street institutions. One of Obama’s first jokes addressed that point:
“If this material works well, I’m gonna use it at Goldman Sachs next year. Earn me some serious Tubmans.”
He did however give Hillary Clinton the nod for president:
“Next year at this time, someone else will be standing here in this very spot. And it’s anyone’s guess who she will be.”
Obama took aim at John Kasick,
“Some candidates aren’t polling high enough for their own joke tonight”
White House Correspondents’ Dinner host Larry Wilmore closed his speech on Saturday by telling Obama, “Yo Barry, you did it, my n*gga.”
“What did that j*gaboo say?”
He finished his speech with,
“Mr. President, I’m going to keep it 100. Yo Barry, you did it, my n*gger.”
Wilmore then thumped his chest, to which Obama replied with a chest thump of his own.
A selection of Obama’s jokes:
- ‘There’s one area where Trump’s experience could be invaluable … closing down Guantanamo. Trump knows a thing or two about running waterfront properties into the ground.’
- On Bernie Sanders: ‘I’m disappointed you’re distancing yourself from me. That’s just not something you do to your comrade.’
- ‘GOP Chairman Reince Priebus is here – I’m glad you feel like you have earned a night off. Congratulations on your success: the nomination process is going great.’
- Obama said the choices for the dinner were steak and fish. ‘Instead a whole bunch of you wrote in Paul Ryan. You may not like steak or fish, but that’s your choice.’
- ‘Hillary once asked if I would be ready for a 3am phone call … now I’m awake anyway because I gotta go to the bathroom.’
- ‘I hope you are all satisfied – the guy wanted to give his hotel business a boost and now we’re praying Cleveland makes it through July.’
- ‘If this material goes well, I’ll use it at Goldman Sachs next year. Earn me some serious Tubmans.’
- ‘Even reporters have left me. Jape Tapper left journalism to join CNN.’
- ‘A lot of folks have been surprised by the Bernie phenomenon. One young person said to me recently that she was tired of politicians standing in the way of their dreams … as if we were going to let Malia go to Burning Man this year.’
- In a pre-recorded video played during the speech, Obama watched Toy Story with former House Speaker John Boehner. Boehner tempted Obama with a cigarette and joked about the ‘grand bargain’ Boehner got on a new car – a reference to a failed debt deal proposal from 2011.
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H/T Daily Mail, CNN
