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« on: February 25, 2017, 05:45:40 PM »
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What a snowflake https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/835608648625836032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2017, 05:47:26 PM »
Wow. I genuinely thought he had the guts to go. Won't make that mistake again.
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« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2017, 05:48:36 PM »
Roflmao. Trumplethinskin is such an obvious cowardly chickenpoop its pathetically funny.
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« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2017, 05:49:51 PM »
this is a win for him, imo.
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« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2017, 05:51:20 PM »
They should just get Alec Baldwin in character in his place. Or maybe a cardboard cutout. Maybe Hillary Clinton. What would annoy him most?


How?
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« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2017, 05:51:50 PM »
« Edited: February 25, 2017, 05:54:27 PM by L.D. Smith »
Quote from: L.D. Smith on February 24, 2017, 03:57:29 PM
...Gee, wonder how the WHC Dinner is gonna go down now...

Guess this answers my question from yesterday!...Not surprised at all.
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« Reply #6 on: February 25, 2017, 05:54:44 PM »
Quote from: Crumpets on February 25, 2017, 05:51:20 PM
They should just get Alec Baldwin in character in his place. Or maybe a cardboard cutout. Maybe Hillary Clinton. What would annoy him most?


How?

1. they come off as pretentious, despite Obama.
2. no self inflicted wounds
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« Reply #7 on: February 25, 2017, 05:57:40 PM »
Quote from: Crumpets on February 25, 2017, 05:51:20 PM
They should just get Alec Baldwin in character in his place. Or maybe a cardboard cutout. Maybe Hillary Clinton. What would annoy him most?

A chicken with a golden hamster on its head?
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« Reply #8 on: February 25, 2017, 06:00:57 PM »
Use our old trick of representing no shows with a tub of lard.
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« Reply #9 on: February 25, 2017, 06:02:54 PM »
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« Reply #10 on: February 25, 2017, 06:04:47 PM »
Spineless coward, But we knew that already.
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« Reply #11 on: February 25, 2017, 06:05:43 PM »
Apparently, the last time a president skipped this was Reagan in 1981, and that was only because he'd been shot.
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« Reply #12 on: February 25, 2017, 06:06:57 PM »
They need to get Alec Baldwin to go instead.
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« Reply #13 on: February 25, 2017, 06:08:54 PM »
Just have former President Barack Obama take his place at the dinner.  I'm sure he won't mind. 
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« Reply #14 on: February 25, 2017, 06:09:32 PM »
solves the problem for journalists, if they can joke in such an atmosphere.
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« Reply #15 on: February 25, 2017, 06:09:38 PM »
thank god. the WHCD was a really disgusting show. First good thing he's done since becoming President.
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« Reply #16 on: February 25, 2017, 06:17:04 PM »
Quote from: Crumpets on February 25, 2017, 05:47:26 PM
Wow. I genuinely thought he had the guts to go. Won't make that mistake again.
I don't think that its a question of not having the guts to go. I think its a question of not having any motivation to go.

If you were invited to attend a dinner organised by a group of people who you didn't particularly like and who didn't particularly like you would you attend? What possible motivation would you have for attending?

Previous Presidents have attended in order to demonstrate both to the WHCA and to the world that beneath the surface confrontation they really get on with the 'mainstream' press. For 35 years they have accepted with good humour the gentle mockery of the comedian making the 'roast' as part of the same demonstration. President Trump has absolutely no motivation whatsoever to make such a demonstration, quite the reverse. Therefore he has absolutely no reason to go.
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« Reply #17 on: February 25, 2017, 06:20:13 PM »
Wow. He had the guts to skip it. This is good news! It's such an establishment-y show. Time to end the tradition.
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« Reply #18 on: February 25, 2017, 06:21:26 PM »
Quote from: EnglishPete on February 25, 2017, 06:17:04 PM
What possible motivation would you have for attending?

showing your superiority and strength and your good humour.

luckily, no one would ever have connected trump with those virtues anyway.
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« Reply #19 on: February 25, 2017, 06:33:25 PM »
Good. WHCA Dinner should be abolished, IMO. It's a ridiculous tradition
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« Reply #20 on: February 25, 2017, 06:38:35 PM »
Quote from: KingSweden on February 25, 2017, 06:33:25 PM
Good. WHCA Dinner should be abolished, IMO. It's a ridiculous tradition
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« Reply #21 on: February 25, 2017, 06:43:13 PM »

I imagine we agree on this for vastly different reasons haha
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« Reply #22 on: February 25, 2017, 06:50:24 PM »
Quote from: KingSweden on February 25, 2017, 06:33:25 PM
Good. WHCA Dinner should be abolished, IMO. It's a ridiculous tradition
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« Reply #23 on: February 25, 2017, 06:53:13 PM »
Well I see President Snowflake is too scared of all the criticism he'll get. Makes sense.
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« Reply #24 on: February 25, 2017, 07:04:57 PM »
Quote from: TD on February 25, 2017, 06:53:13 PM
Well I see President Snowflake is too scared of all the criticism he'll get. Makes sense.

Not a question of being scared is it. Its a question of having no motive to attend. I'm sure the WHCA would love him to attend, it would bring more of the spotlight on them. But what possible motivation would he have to attend? When people use the 'ohh, you to scared to show up/take part/debate me etc' line its usually a lame attempt to give someone a motivation for doing something they otherwise have no reason to do.
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