Trump cracks jokes, honors heroes of White House Correspondents Association Dinner shooting at glitzy rescheduled gala
President Trump played comedian-in-chief Friday night at the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Dinner, where he had the entire room roaring as he quipped about a third term, Nicki Minaj twerking and trying to pair dress shoes with bulletproof vests in an entertaining and unifying speech.“As I said three months ago, the show must go on,” Trump said at the pared-down, more intimate dinner, three months after the initial night of celebration was cut short by the attempted assassination of the president.“Won’t soon be forgotten,” the president said of the April dinner, “and I think a lot was learned from that evening.”“But just like my presidency, the second time is always better.It’s always better, and the third time will be better yet,” he joked to a chorus of laughter.Trump praised the heroics of law enforcement and the Secret Service, and commended administration officials for looking out for the press when shots rang out outside the Washington Hilton ballroom — before ribbing a Grammy-nominated supporter who was also in the crowd that night.“After hearing the gunshots, many people yelled, ‘Get down! Get down!’ which caused Nicki Minaj to start twerking,” he quipped.
“Do you believe?”Later, Trump joked about trying to pair nice dress shoes with a bulletproof vest — and how he didn’t want to wear the protective gear because it made him look heavier.“Everyone’s looking really good tonight, and I know it was not easy finding shoes to go along with your bulletproof vest, which many people didn’t want to wear because they’d rather die than look 20 pounds heavier,” he jested.Numerous journalism awards and scholarships were handed out prior to the president’s remarks.When a team of reporters from the Wall Street Journal was honored for a report on Trump’s ties to notorious sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, the president was seen laughing and throwing his hands up in the air before graciously shaking hands with all th...