WashPo: Trump Not 'Motivated to Run Due to Infamous 2011 White House Correspondence Dinner'

By Roxanne Roberts
Washington Post
May. 08, 2016

Regarding the vast mystery that is Donald Trump, one question eclipses all others: Why is the billionaire reality star running for president?

I don’t know. You don’t know. But a handful of armchair psychoanalysts — reporters for major news organizations, no less — have decided that it all began at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, where Trump was the butt of jokes by President Obama and “Saturday Night Live” comedian Seth Meyers.

Trump was so humiliated by the experience, they say, that it triggered some deep, previously hidden yearning for revenge. “That evening of public abasement, rather than sending Mr. Trump away, accelerated his ferocious efforts to gain stature in the political world,” wrote the New York Times last month.

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