President Obama’s Wicked Satire of Trump & the Birthers

Juan Cole 05/01/2011

President Obama’s satire of Donald Trump and the birthers at the 2010 White House correspondents’ dinner should reposted every time the issue comes up. It slays.

They say that Mel Brooks’s satire Blazing Saddles killed the Western. This one should by all rights kill birtherism.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page