Trump says he meant to make world leaders laugh...

[babylonsister]

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-unga-un-speech-laughter-reaction-2018-9

Trump says he meant to make world leaders laugh during UN speech when he claimed his administration was the most successful in US history
John Haltiwanger
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President Donald Trump claimed that he meant to make world leaders laugh during his address to the United Nations on Tuesday.

World leaders and diplomats laughed after Trump boasted that his administration had accomplished more than almost any other in US history.

At the time, Trump seemed surprised by the reaction, but he later said it "was meant to get some laughter."

"Well, that was meant to get some laughter, but it was great," Trump said of the moment, which went viral on social media.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday claimed that he meant to make world leaders laugh during his address to the United Nations earlier in the day, though he initially said he "didn't expect that reaction."

Early in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Trump boasted that his administration had accomplished more than almost any other in US history, prompting laughter from world leaders and diplomats in attendance.

"Didn't expect that reaction, but that's OK," Trump said during the speech.

The moment quickly went viral on social media.

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Hours later, when asked by reporters about the laughter, Trump said, "Well, that was meant to get some laughter, but it was great."

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[underpants]

1. I think this was stewing in him and was part of the blowup on Dr. Ford.

This guy isn't that complicated

[madaboutharry]

5. Yeah, he lashes out at the most vulnerable targets.

[democratisphere]

2. Fool's fool.

[eleny]

3. So he knows he's a fuck up - that he hasn't accomplished much

Rock meet hard place.

[LonePirate]

4. So he admits it is a joke when he says he has accomplished many things?

[Eliot Rosewater]

27. Exactly..Either you are admitting you are a complete failure or LYING when you say

you meant to be laughed at, which of course is a lie since you even admitted when it happened you were surprised.

NOBODY believes you other than morons.

[Nevilledog]

29. My exact thoughts.

[unblock]

6. Donnie, king of self-deprecating humor.

[trueblue2007]

7. HE IS A LIAR!!! Trump knows the world hates him. What a buffoon.

[marylandblue]

8. I once tripped over a wire on front of hundreds of people

I claimed it was on purpose too.

[Solomon]

26. I meant to do that!

[superpatriotman]

9. Uniting the world through laughter

Our humiliation is their punchline

[Docreed2003]

10. Suuuuure Donnie

[Gothmog]

11. At the U.N., Trump finds the world literally laughing at him

Trump hates to be laughed at. The world is laughing at trump http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-un-trump-finds-the-world-literally-laughing-him

As we discussed at the time, it’s been a point of near-obsession for Trump for decades. In his mind, being laughed at appears to be the single worst reaction a person or a country can experience, and so he seems to evaluate decisions based less on merit and more on whether they’ll generate laughter from others.

In the Reagan era, Trump insisted that “bad guys” were “laughing at” the United States. In 2011, The Atlantic ran a piece noting Trump making the same argument about international laughter, at Americans’ expense, during the Clinton, Bush, and Obama eras.

“Everyone is always pointing and laughing at America, in Trump’s view,” The Atlantic piece noted. “A psychologist might have a field day with this.”

Stop by the Trump Twitter Archive and search for example of the president writing missives about people laughing at us. It’s not a short list.

Traditionally, this has made Trump appear vaguely paranoid about ridicule that didn’t really exist, responding to laughter that only he could hear. This morning, however, was an altogether different dynamic: at the United Nations, the world laughed at Trump.

[Cha]

16. Thanks for this, Goth!

[Gothmog]

19. Trump is a joke

The world is laughing at him

[NurseJackie]

18. He's "Pee Wee" in more ways than one, I see...

[smirkymonkey]

21. Exactly the visual I was thinking of!

You beat me to it!

However Pee Wee is much cooler than Trump. I think I have seen that movie about 75 times already. It's one of my personal cult films.

[C_U_L8R]

12. Then what was the joke, Donnie ???

Everyone else seems to think they were laughing at you... not some joke you cracked. What's your joke?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. I totally meant to do that.

Really.

[RockRaven]

14. He blurted out that he "didn't expect that reaction" for Christ's sake.

You can't be trying to make people laugh and then react to their laughter with "I didn't expect that reaction." Those two pieces don't fit together. And since you did the latter OUT LOUD, you must not have been doing the former.

He's such an insecure man-baby.

[libdem4life]

15. The dementia runs deep...

He knows it's a joke even...I'm the greatest (fill in the blank). I like to be a laughingstock on international tv. I wrote that part in there all by myself. Really.

[Crunchy Frog]

17. "I meant to do that."

[ProudLib72]

20. I believe him! He was top graduate in Clown College

Being a doofus comes naturally to him. He can't help it. He has the brains of Curly and the temper of Moe.

[global1]

22. Yeah!!! - Right!!!!.....nt

[Arkansas Granny]

23. I call bullshit on that one. He wasn't expecting that reaction.

He's used to speaking only to his supporters who cheer everything he says. I'll bet this hit him like Obama's jokes did.

He'll be ready to pull out of the UN now.

[Totally Tunsie]

24. Yeah, and he tried to pull off one of his word substitutions too.

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As he was speaking about Iran, he said something like "...claiming their religious and righteous place..." That's a huge trick of his when he misreads the teleprompter. The "and" is always a tell.

Jackass thinks he's so damn clever.

How's your "cocoa" today, Doturd?



8:45 p.m. Edit: LOL - Chris Hayes just featured Doturd's word salad substitutions on "Thing 1, Thing 2". His secret is out, and the listeners are aware. As Rex Tillerson was heard to say, tRump is a fucking moron.

[HipChick]

25. Speech was written by Nazi Stephen Miller...not know for his humor...

[bdamomma]

31. I didn't watch him

but Stephen Miller is a contributor in all of this. I want to see him being called out.

[moondust]

28. Now the world is laughing at that.

The dead giveaway in the speech was that he was feigning gravitas when he said it. Definitely not a joke. It looked like he's been taking lessons from Pence on how to fake Herculean self-importance.

[dalton99a]

30. He should speechify at the U.N. more often

[Gothmog]

32. From Malcom Nance

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