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President Donald Trump does not appear to be the entertainer he once was, reports CNN\u2019s Brian Stelter. <\/p>\n

Read more New polling sparks panic as clown show GOP faces major wipeout<\/a><\/p>\n

The president\u2019s insult-laden speech drew mostly stunned silence from the audience as he attacked a bunch of journalists at the pared-down recap of the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump bombed at the … Dinner Friday night. He knew he was bombing, too, and he even tried to meta-joke his way out of it,\u201d reports Stelter. \u201cBut no. Even the president\u2019s jokes about his bad jokes fell flat, and he was widely ridiculed for the comedy routine afterward.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a \u201crambling hour-long speech,\u201d Stelter said Trump insulted journalists by name, \u201crepurposed old nicknames for political opponents, made a strange number of fat jokes that weren\u2019t funny at all, and sounded mad at his unnamed writers for giving him weak material to work with.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDoes anyone understand this stuff?\u201d he said at one point during the razzball speech. The answer, said Stelter, was \u201cgenerally no. But more than anything, the speech was just \u2026 boring.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump\u2019s low energy led more than one TV executive to muse that the president had stumbled upon a new technique against the media: Tank the ratings with a snoozefest,\u201d added Stelter. \u201cSome attendees said they were surprised that Trump didn\u2019t bring more original material, given how highly anticipated the dinner was, in part because his attendance ended his years-long boycott of the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association\u2019s annual fundraiser. <\/p>\n

Many journalists refused to attend, and the dinner was a small-scale redo of the April 26 black-tie affair that got called off after a gunman tried to rush into the ballroom of the Washington Hilton hotel, so Trump joked about bullet proof vests and how attendees hid under their tables while his staff bravely stood on tables and directed crowds.<\/p>\n

He gave shoutouts to media executives he considers propaganda allies, namely Larry and David Ellison, who took control of Paramount last year, killed off the high-rating show of late-night comic gadfly Stephen Colbert, destroyed legacy news show 60 Minutes and turned CBS News into a ratings flop.<\/p>\n

Read more Fetterman will probably quit<\/a><\/p>\n

Ellison is now trying to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, and the parent company of CNN.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder my administration, a once-feared and powerful regime that relentlessly attacked America has finally been toppled,\u201d Trump said, referring to changes implemented by Ellison\u2019s handpicked editor-in-chief of CBS News, Bari Weiss. \u201cTheir former leaders have been removed, and they\u2019re now being run by a gay dictator facing internal divisions. But I, for one, wish Bari Weiss all the best at CBS News. She\u2019s a wonderful woman.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe more resentful and recycled Trump\u2019s speech got, the more attendees seemed to tune it out,\u201d said Stelter.<\/p>\n

One of the most intriguing parts of the evening involved the correspondents\u2019 association\u2019s annual journalism awards presentation, said Stelter, when Trump looked on while journalists earned multiple prizes, including one for \u201ccourage and accountability\u201d in reporting that went to a team of Wall Street Journal reporters for their investigative work on a lewd birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein with Trump\u2019s name on it.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump quickly filed a $20 billion lawsuit against the Journal, revealing reporter Khadeeja Safdar\u2019s home address,\u201d CNN\u2019s Wolf Blitzer said while presenting the award. To which \u201cTrump laughed and threw up his hands in an aw shucks<\/em>-like gesture,\u201d according to Stelter.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer family had to be relocated,\u201d Blitzer added more somberly. \u201cThe Journal was kicked off of Air Force One, but the reporters continued to file revelatory stories.\u201d <\/p>\n

Read more Sources warn they \u2018don\u2019t know what to do\u2019 as Trump\u2019s mind withers<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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