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Trump trashes his own 'freaking stupid speech' at White House Correspondents' Dinner
Power Wants Applause, Not WitThe Real StoryThe source story is almost comically small: Trump gave an hour-long White House Correspondents’ Dinner speech, tried to land a joke about term limits and a senator’s wife, got silence, and kept asking who wrote the material. That is the evidence. The political meaning is bigger than the bit.Who Held The PowerTrump was not a guest performer trying to survive a hostile room. He was the president, speaking at a White House event, commanding the stage and the institution behind it. The crowd’s silence mattered only because it briefly interrupted the…
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