Going on to the MSNBC website today, I found one of the biggest news stories of the day in politics in various places and in various forms on the site. MSNBC as a news source on the whole did a good job of covering President Obama's own Roast of Donald Trump, by providing a video clip of Obama's jests directed toward the possible presidential candidate at the White House Correspondents' Association annual dinner. MSNBC's video clip of part of Obama's speech is very funny and is the funniest I have seen the president. The video clip is great, but the article covering Obama's jokes about Trump is good also. The article, entitled "Obama mocks Trump and self at gala dinner" explains how the president took Trump's attacks at him and flipped them into comedy, as much of the democratic party has been viewing Trump's remarks already. The article gives a better overall coverage of the dinner than the video, which discussed some of Obama's other remarks about the Republican party, including this one:
He said he'd heard that Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota was running for president, adding, "which is weird, because I hear she was born in Canada."This dinner last night was an important issue because it was Obama's first retaliation after weeks of Trump criticizing and taking shots at Obama, yet, Fox News failed to cover the article, demonstrating better news coverage on the part of MSNBC.
After a week when Obama released his long-form Hawaii birth certificate, he said Trump could now focus on the serious issues, from whether the moon landing actually happened to "where are Biggie and Tupac?"
"No one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than 'the Donald,'" Obama said, referring to Trump's claims the same day that he was responsible for solving the issue.
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