At Saturday night’s Gridiron Club dinner, where speakers are expected to engage in good-natured ribbing, President Obama used the occasion instead to pour on the mean.
The president was joined on the dais by two governors — Wisconsin’s Scott Walker, a Republican, and Virginia’s Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat — for what has traditionally been “an evening of song and skits making light of major players in U.S. politics,” according to Reuters.
But the president’s remarks were more mean-spirited than they were light-hearted banter — his targets were his former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, and Senate Republicans.
“You don’t diminish your office by taking a selfie,” Obama told the gathering. “You do it by sending a poorly written letter to Iran.”
That’s supposed to be a joke? Even the left-of-center Huffington Post had to disagree on that one. The website’s White House reporter Jennifer Bendery tweeted:
Obama: “You don’t diminish your office by taking a selfie. You do it by sending a poorly written letter to Iran. Really. That wasnt a joke.”
— jennifer bendery (@jbendery) March 15, 2015
And others agreed, likening the president to a petulant teenager and even a “toddler in the White House”:
@jbendery “poorly-written” – that’s some serious trolling right there.
— Shocked, shocked (@bacampb01) March 15, 2015
@markknoller @batchelorshow Is Barack Obama a petulant teenage girl? He sure as hell acts like one.
— Τι λες ρε μαλάκα; (@YankInGeorgia) March 15, 2015
“@BotrosIhab: @markknoller @zerohedge I am convinced we have a toddler in the white house.” W/ Jarrett as nanny
— On My High Horse (@SteveInRTP) March 15, 2015
@Sgt_Bravo @markknoller A letter that SUDDENLY has even Jew-hater Kerry saying “maybe we shouldn’t be doing this” LOL
— El Queso del Diablo (@WarrenPeas64) March 15, 2015
He also took a potshot at Clinton, his former senior-level cabinet member, at a time when she was already down.
“If you think about how things have changed since 2008, back then I was the young tech-savvy candidate of the future,” the president said. “Now I’m yesterday’s news and Hillary’s got a server in her house! I am so far behind.”
But maybe that last one isn’t much of a surprise after all.
Leaks to the media about Clinton’s private email account have reportedly been traced to the White House.
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