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The hosts revisit the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner where Barack Obama mocked Donald Trump. They suggest this public embarrassment motivated Trump to run for president and set him on a "crash course" with Black men who shared a similar animosity toward Obama's lecturing tone.
Barack Obama used the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner to publicly humiliate Donald Trump regarding the birth certificate controversy. Obama joked about Trump returning to focus on "conspiracies" like the faked moon landing while Trump sat in the audience. The public ridicule is cited as a pivotal moment that motivated Trump to take his 2016 presidential ambitions seriously.
