TRUMP FORCED TO PLAY GOOD SPORT AT CORRESPONDENTS’ DINNER – BUT IT COULDN’T LAST

President’s speech started well enough but quickly moved to the usual insults, taunts, jokes and grievances This time, at least, everyone got to finish their dinner. And any urge to hide under the table was driven not by the barking commands of Secret Service agents on alert against a marauding gunman, but by a desire to escape the tedium of a meandering speech from Donald Trump…

Media | The Guardian reports that president’s speech started well enough but quickly moved to the usual insults, taunts, jokes and grievances This time, at least, everyone got to finish their dinner.

The report adds: And any urge to hide under the table was driven not by the barking commands of Secret Service agents on alert against a marauding gunman, but by a desire to escape the tedium of a meandering speech from Donald Trump…

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