President Donald Trump raised eyebrows at his first Gridiron Club dinner, joking that his wife, Melania, may be the next to leave the White House, reported The Washington Post.
In the 30-minute speech in his first press dinner since taking office 13 months ago, Trump rattled off a series of jokes that got plenty of laughs, skewering members of his own Cabinet like Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, who were all present in the Washington hotel ballroom.
His subject of jokes included impeachment, news media, potential 2020 opponents, Jared Kushner’s security clearance, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un facing “the risk of dealing with a madman. That’s his concern, not mine.”
But the most controversial of the jokes came when his wife, First Lady Melania Trump, joined him on the dais, The Washington Post reported.
I like turnover. I like chaos. It really is good. Now the question everybody keeps asking is, ‘Who is going to be the next to leave? Steve Miller or Melania?’US President Donald Trump
Cutting through the laughs and the hoots, Trump continued, “That’s terrible. That is terrible.” He turned to his wife and said, “You love me?” Then, he said, “I won’t tell you what she said.”
A moment later, he said, “She said, ‘Behave.'”
Gridiron Club members don wigs and costumes to perform satirical skits skewering the president and Washington political class, a tradition dating back to 1885.
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