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\n Perhaps you can\u2019t teach a new joke to an old president.\n <\/p>\n
\n For more than an hour, Donald Trump delivered a litany of familiar insults, offensive comments and inside-the-Beltway snubs as he made his first appearance as president at the White House Correspondent\u2019s Dinner. Even he could tell, in real time, that many of his jokes were bombing.\n <\/p>\n
\n With 102 days to go until the midterm elections set the course for the rest of his term, Trump made only passing references to the congressional campaigns underway across the country. He didn\u2019t use the primetime address to lift Republican candidates or highlight why his party deserves to maintain control of Congress.\n <\/p>\n
\n Instead, he delivered something of a forgettable speech \u2013 aside from the fact that he gave it at all.\n <\/p>\n
\n While the president began his remarks marking the heroism of law enforcement from the first dinner in April, when a gunman sought to storm the ballroom, he quickly segued into warmed-over lines and grievances that have been heard for much of the last decade.\n <\/p>\n
\n The only joke that stood out as new \u2013 and was legitimately funny \u2013 came at the expense of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as he joked the beef tenderloin served was \u201cvery special.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cBobby Kennedy is right here,\u201d Trump joked to laughter. \u201cHe personally ran over the cow in his car.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Aside from that, Trump\u2019s words made clear that he, like most occupants of the office, is used to being surrounded by people who say, \u201cYes, Mr. President.\u201d Tonight, some tough editing of the speech or a simple \u201cNo, Mr. President,\u201d may have avoided a wave of negative reviews that flowed in afterward, many of which included one of his least-favorite descriptions: It was boring.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Perhaps you can\u2019t teach a new joke to an old president. For more than an hour, Donald Trump…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-783204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}