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All of the time and you can be very difficult.
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You can be very very difficult people But I'm probably being a little bit oversensitive.
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Sometimes I really do think that Some of you don't like me In fact,
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I read a report I get 93% negative publicity 93, so how the hell did I win the election by so much?
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Think of it.
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I don't think that's true.
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I can't believe it's 93 in the 80s.
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Maybe but not 93
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But this place is really the largest group of Trump derangement syndrome people ever put together at one time, I suspect.
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Joining me now to react is Alicia Krause, conservative commentator and op-ed writer for The Washington Examiner, and Will Rollins, former federal prosecutor and former Democratic U.S.
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House candidate.
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Welcome back to both of you.
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This whole thing was a little odd because of the shooting at the last one.
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I was there for that in Washington.
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Much smaller crowd, sort of the elephant in the room.
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And something the president addressed.
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Watch.
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From the earliest moments after the attack on our dinner last April, I knew we had to reschedule this event as soon as possible.
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We had to do it very quickly, and we met very quickly.
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And we figured something out but the attempted mass murder at the Washington Hilton, that's what it could have been, was an assault on our democracy itself.
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Very serious situation.
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Many of you were there with me, and some showed extreme bravery, like Pete Hegseth, Steve Miller, Tom Holman.
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Really?
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They were standing on tables, and most of you were under the tables, okay?
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So that was his way of sort of nodding people.
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Well, he did have a lot of classy moments where he
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sort of celebrated some of the journalists in the room and said nice things, said that he would have given a tougher speech back then.
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But because of that, he was a little nicer to people.
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But there were moments where you saw a coming together.
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I just, I don't know.
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Maybe it's because I work with Adam Carolla and some other great comedians a few times a week now.
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But it's like there's so many missed opportunities.
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It's like when I tune into SNL, I'm like, maybe I'm remembering the good old days of SNL of like Will Ferrell, Kirsten Wiig, like those types of people.
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And I'm like, can it be funny?
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Can it be funny?
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And then it ends up not being funny and I feel like I wasted my time.
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This is kind of like what that was.
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Like there are so many liners, like as a mom of four with a toddler, a three-nager now, he could have been like, you know, Caroline, she has two kids at home that are under two years old.
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You guys are more annoying to her than her whiny toddler.
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Like there are just lines that should write themselves
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that could have been delivered that I feel like he kind of missed out on.
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Well, to his credit, He does have some good jokes in there, but I think part of the reason it's gotten less funny over the years is
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because they've taken away the comedians from the White House Correspondents Dinner because he got pissed off when Michelle Wolfe roasted him,
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and all the prior presidents were willing to sit there and take some jokes, right?
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He can dish it out, but he just can't take it, and it's too bad because he is funny a lot of the time.
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Not all of it, but he does.
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He seemed especially funny when it was clear he was reading off of the prompter some jokes
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that likely were written for him, including this one about the Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F.
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Kennedy Jr. I hope that everyone finally got to enjoy their entire very delicious beef tenderloin,
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very special beef.
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And I want you all to know that Bobby Kennedy, who's right here, personally ran over the cow in his car.
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And he cut it up and he brought it here for you to eat tonight, so it's very fresh.
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Of course, that is an incident to Bobby Kenny actually running over animals in the past.
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See, behind every joke is a hint of truth.
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Like, everybody laughs because it is.
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Do you do A1 with a raccoon?
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That's my question.
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I don't know how you marinate that.
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I still don't know.
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He referenced the raccoon as well as part of this.
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See, that was the funny part.
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But then he would go off script
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and then do these long sort of meandering takes that did not necessarily work in the room.
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This ain't his crowd.
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No offense, y'all ain't his crowd.
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Like, I don't know that there's anything that he could do.
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I think he can actually be very funny.
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But I don't think that there's anything that the president could have done to make that crowd, like, slap their knee, laugh out loud.
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They laughed at Bobby Kennedy.
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Because it was a joke at Bobby's expense.
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I think if there's any joke at the expense of the audience who's actually there, there's very few professionals who can make that work.
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Well, speaking of that, there was a moment, of course, when Barack Obama was president and was on stage, and he got a lot of laughs for making fun of Donald Trump.
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And Donald Trump was in the room.
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That's been played over and over again.
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There's been so much speculation that that was the thing that made Donald Trump run for president.
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Trump said, not true.
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There's one time in particular when Barack Hussein Obama hosted it.
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Do you know who that is?
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And he hit me hard, but actually he hit me with respect.
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And I have watched this clip thousands of times.
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They keep playing it because they think that was evening I decided to run for president.
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It was not.
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In fact, I loved the evening.
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I looked at my wife.
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I said, can you believe it?
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All these people, that's all they're doing is talking about me.
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I love this dinner.
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Well, I definitely believe that.
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I think, you know, the issue is he is actually funny at times, right?
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And Judd Apatow's- Very funny at times.
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His theory of who wins presidential elections is the funniest candidate wins.
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I think the problem for President Trump is he just cannot take a joke, right?
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So he can give it out, but he just won't have a comedian come back in and roast him.
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And I think if he had some self-deprecation, he actually could win people in the middle.
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I'm not somebody who just says everything that he does is wrong.
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I agree with some of the things that this president does.
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And had I been elected, would have tried to actually get something done in a bipartisan way with him.
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But that part of his personality just isn't it.
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I think that we are so used to Barack Obama can be funny.
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George W.
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Bush, we were saying off air, like the guy is very funny.
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He has that kind of like gift of bringing light to situations.
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I've heard that from numerous people and people that worked with him.
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But I think that we're forgetting, and I'm old enough to remember, the lauding and the praise and the groveling of comedians
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and of Hollywood and of the media of any time there's a Democrat in office.
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So then when they maybe self-depreciate once or twice, we're like, oh, yay, good for them.
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But they were on every single cover of every magazine, on every single night show with, like, Jimmy Kimmel and Colbert and all these people telling him how wonderful he was even when he wore the brown suit.
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And so I think that in Trump's defense, he's kind of used to everybody hating him.
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And he's like, why do I got to be nice to you guys?
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I'm going to say what I want to say.
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Well, but yet this time, for the first time in a long time, decided to go at all.
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And he sort of talked about his relationship with the press, including how good he's been for some in the media.
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You people have no idea how lucky you are.
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When I'm gone, you're all going to be broke.
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Your business model is going to be finished.
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No, it's true.
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When I'm not around, you're going to be broke.
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There's not going to be anybody to report on.
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Nobody gives a damn about anybody else.
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I mean, there kind of is some truth there.
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Look at the numbers.
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Yeah, I mean, presidents have had, right, fraught relationships with the media.
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This media has had a very interesting relationship with this particular president.
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But I will say the criticism
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that he's lobbed at them back makes you wonder why the guy got involved in politics in the first place.
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And I think on a more serious note, you know, he can tell all the jokes he wants at this correspondence dinner.
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But when you go out and have the Justice Department subpoena reporters
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or you really personally criticize reporters to such a degree
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that you're trying to intimidate them and you're worried about actually free and fair criticism that all presidents have had to endure.
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That's something that's a little bit more serious that I think that, you know, should be called out and that he needs to, as the leader of the free world, actually back up with words and deeds.
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Well, they talked about Jack Smith tonight, called him a bad prosecutor, said a lot of very mean things about Caitlin Collins, our colleague here on CNN,
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made fun of Jake Tapper tonight, made fun of other reporters that had won awards.
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And we saw in the room as he did that, we saw some cutaways of the crowd sort of silent and uncomfortable in this room.
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These were certainly not lines meant for the people in this room.
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Maybe it is for some folks outside of the room.
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This is some video of Oz, the mentalist, who had to perform at like one o'clock in the morning.
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No, it was like 11 o'clock at night because this thing went so long.
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But he was the choice.
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Watches everything.
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Yes.
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That, you know, loves talking to reporters in a way that certainly Joe Biden never did. For sure.
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At least the guy is available to you and transparent, right?
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Especially compared to past administrations.
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Well, available and transparent are not always the same thing.
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Well, I would say he's a lot more transparent.
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Those are not always the same.
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True, but he's definitely more transparent than the Biden administration.
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And I would even argue...
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He speaks more to the media than the Biden administration.
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I would even argue the Obama administration.
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I mean, Obama is a guy, and I don't know if I have an NDA or not, but I remember in a past life when I worked in talk radio,
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him threatening conservative news organizations and mocking talk radio hosts and conservative bloggers and all of these things,
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and saying, fine when I'm president I'm never going on your show
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if you let this person keep talking about me
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that way it is I'd agree that is wrong a free
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and fair press first amendment is something I advocate for all
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the time including on you know liberal college campuses where they want to shut me up every single semester
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but I think that it is we can't you know it's it is both sides do this
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and unfortunately the left often does it much much more well
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I think both both sides definitely should engage with each other more
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and I I give you credit for going on to campuses that are hostile right?
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I mean, we need more of that.
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I give Pete credit for going on, going on to Fox, right?
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Where a lot of Democrats won't go on to Fox.
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Like we need more dialogue like that.
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I do think when it comes to press though, and leadership, there's comedians, right?
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And then there's the president of the United States.
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And when you attack the media, the way that the president of the United States is doing it, that sets a tone for the whole country and leadership in government, right?
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I'm all for standup comic specials, like funny people going and roasting at the correspondence on his dinner.
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But for the president to attack the media the way that he has again and again, it's not a great tone to set for the leader of the free world.
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And we can keep comedy to be comedy and politics a little bit maybe more normal, right?
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Well, jokes are one thing, but sort of there are some moments where there were no laughs that went with the lines.
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And those are some of them that are concerning at a moment
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that is so fraught for the media for so many different reasons based off of what's happening in our business.
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You got Jeff Mason is Bloomberg's White House correspondent.
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He's the former president of the White House Correspondents Association, which means he has run these dinners in the past.
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He joins us live from Washington after attending the dinner.
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It's late at night now.
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Thank you for being with us.
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You've been to a lot of these, Jeff.
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What was it like inside the room and how was it different from some of the others that you've attended?
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Well, it was different because President Trump attended and he did not attend any of the dinners during his first term, including the one that I presided over in 2017.
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So it was just that alone was different because this is a president who has been,
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used such vitriolic language about the press during his first term and now during his second term, certainly during both of his campaigns.
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and as part of that brand has boycotted the dinner.
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So he came tonight.
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He stayed on brand.
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He used a lot of insults in his, as he referenced in his very long speech.
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He mixed that with a few things that were not insulting, but he certainly stayed on brand for that.
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And otherwise, what was it like being in the room?
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I mean, it was, you know, it was the whole history of this dinner being the second version of the one
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that was supposed to have happened and partially happened in April, certainly hung over the night.
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And he referenced that in a positive way, and so did the others who spoke, including the current president or the outgoing president, Weijia Chang.
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So that part was uplifting, I would say, but certainly a lot of the other things
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that the president talked about were quite negative with regard to the press.
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So traditionally, the president has a bunch of joke writers that come up with a lot of one-liners THAT THE PRESIDENT READS.
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AND THIS PRESIDENT READ SOME OF THEM, INCLUDING ONE ABOUT NIKKI MINNAJ.
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WATCH.
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AFTER HEARING THE GUNSHOTS, MANY PEOPLE YELLED,
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GET DOWN, GET DOWN, WHICH CAUSED NIKKI MINNAJ TO START TWERKING.
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DO YOU BELIEVE IT?
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GET DOWN.
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SHE'S THE ONLY ONE THAT REALLY UNDERSTOOD WHAT THAT MEANT.
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It is hard for me to believe that President Trump came up with that joke on his own,
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but there are several other moments where it was very clear that he went off of the prompter.
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He would do one of, it seemed like he'd do like a joke or two and then go into one of his rants.
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It seemed like that was the theme of the night.
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Which, by the way, is how President Trump gives speeches, full stop.
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I think that what was probably unusual about tonight is
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that the room was not a room full of supporters and
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so some of the energy
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that he probably got back from those of us who were
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sitting in the ballroom was not what he's accustomed to
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when people laugh at his jokes or accept the insults
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or accept some of the things that he says that uh
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that that i guess are more acceptable in a in a rally
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or in a a room with people who are who are
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trump supporters this was a room largely of journalists he certainly got got a smatterings of applause
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because he had some of the members of his administration who were guests of news organizations in the room.
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But it was certainly a different vibe for him.
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And I think he picked up on that.
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But I think broadly, to your point, yeah, he had some jokes.
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One of the ones that people did laugh at was towards the beginning of his speech.
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He said that he was glad people could eat their beef.
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And he joked that RFK Jr.,
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the Secretary of Health and Human Services had run over the beef himself or run over the animal himself.
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And that was sort of a dig at RFK.
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But most of the jokes were, as you say, he went back and forth from joke to going off script, which is his MO.
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Yeah, it seemed like that room was very happy to laugh at RFK Jr. Read whatever into that.
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But he also, you know, talked a lot about the press, some of it positive, but much of it negative.
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Here's some of that.
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I always find that when you don't speak to the press, you always get a bad story.
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When you do speak to the press, you have a shot at getting a good story.
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And this gets to Trump, which is something you've seen up close and personal.
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He talks more to you guys, certainly than any other president you've covered, right?
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I mean, Some people may say it's not always transparent what he says, but Donald Trump loves interacting with the media.
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He absolutely does.
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And he is certainly the most accessible president that I have covered.
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And I think they're proud of the fact that he can, I think, plausibly claim to be the most accessible.
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Transparent is a different word, but accessible president in modern history.
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I think that's absolutely true.
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I mean, the man takes phone calls from reporters from all over town,
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in addition to holding multiple Q&As at the Oval Office and in the White House.
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That does not excuse calling press fake news
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or enemy of the American people or some of the other very pejorative and negative things that he says about the press.
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but it is absolutely accurate to say that he is very accessible.
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He certainly is, and he referenced that tonight, too.
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Jeff Mason, staying up late for us.
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Thank you so much for being with us, and now hopefully you can have a drink.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Best & Worst Moments from Trump's WH Correspondents' Dinner Speech”. Este vídeo tiene 249 frases y 3182 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 16:57. El hablante habla rápido, unas 188 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. El 86 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| transparent adjetivo | /tɹænsˈpæɹənt/ | transparente |
| comedian sustantivo | /kəˈmiː.di.ən/ | humorista, comediante |
| accessible adjetivo | /əkˈsɛs.ɪ.bəl/ | accesible, asequible |
| roast verbo | /ɹoʊst/ | asar, rostir |
| insult sustantivo | /ɪnˈsʌlt/ | insulto, improperio |
| raccoon sustantivo | /ɹæˈkun/ | mapache, oso lavador |
| liner sustantivo | /ˈlaɪnɚ/ | transatlántico, barco transoceánico de pasajeros |
| toddler sustantivo | /ˈtɑdlɚ/ | niñito, nené |
| correspondence sustantivo | /ˌkoɹ.ɪˈspɑn.dəns/ | correspondencia, carteo |
| prompt verbo | /pɹɑmpt/ | llevar a, concitar |
| prosecutor sustantivo | /ˈpɹɑ.səˌkjuːˌtəɹ/ | procurador fiscal, promotor fiscal |
| supporter sustantivo | /səˈpɔɹ.tɚ/ | apoyador, apoyadora |
| cutaway sustantivo | /ˈkʌtəweɪ/ | chaqué |
| deprecation sustantivo | /ˌdɛpɹɪˈkeɪʃən/ | deprecación |
| depreciate verbo | /dəˈpriʃiˌeɪt/ | depreciar |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| run over verbo | atropellar, arrollar | |
| come up with verbo | ingeniar, ingeniarse | |
| go off verbo | explotar | |
| call out verbo | especificar | |
| come together verbo | /ˈkʌm tʊˈɡɛðɚ/ | juntarse, concitarse |
| end up verbo | terminar, ir a parar | |
| go out verbo | salir | |
| pick up on verbo | percatarse de, pillar |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- I don't think that's true.
- I just, I don't know.
- And I'm like, can it be funny?
- Do you know who that is?
- I said, can you believe it?
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | they've taken · That's been played · There's been |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | have been delivered · were written · been played |
| Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa | somebody who just · Association, which means · people who are |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 45 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, don't, you're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: deprecation /ˌdɛpɹɪˈkeɪʃən/, depreciate /dəˈpriʃiˌeɪt/, gunshot /ˈɡʌn.ʃɑt/, speculation /ˌspɛk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, traditionally /tɹəˈdɪʃ.ə.nə.li/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: comedian /kəˈmiː.di.ən/, accessible /əkˈsɛs.ɪ.bəl/, correspondence /ˌkoɹ.ɪˈspɑn.dəns/, prosecutor /ˈpɹɑ.səˌkjuːˌtəɹ/, bipartisan /baɪˈpɑɹ.tə.sən/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: smattering /ˈsmætɚɪŋ/, slap /slæp/, speculation /ˌspɛk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: grovel /ˈɡrɒvəl/, pejorative /pɪˈd͡ʒoɹətɪv/, vitriolic /ˌvɪt.riˈɑ.lɪk/, bravery /ˈbɹeɪ.və.ɹi/, vibe /vaɪb/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: preside /pɹɪˈzaɪd/, criticize /ˈkɹɪtɪsaɪz/, applause /əˈplɔːz/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como transparent, comedian, accessible.
¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.