WASHINGTON — A day after being roasted by President Obama at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, Donald Trump offered rare kudos to the ‘comedian’ -in-chief.
“It’s a comedy. It’s fine. I thought he did a nice job, it was good,” Trump told Fox News Sunday. Obama joked Trump’s foreign policy experience is meeting with “Miss Sweden [and] Miss Argentina” and Trump could close Gitmo because he’s good at running waterfront properties to the ground.
“I have the best waterfront properties in the world. I don’t know what he’s talking about,” Trump shrugged.
Obama infamously roasted The Donald in 2011 over his birth certificate conspiracy and more when the billionaire was in the audience. Trump passed on the annual celebrity-rich gala, which Obama also made light of Saturday night.
“What could he possibly be doing instead? Is he at home eating a Trump steak, tweeting out insults to Angela Merkel? What’s he doing?” Obama said. Trump’s kids attended instead.
Trump is teeing up for win in Indiana Tuesday and practiced Sunday his attack lines against his likely general election opponent, Hillary Clinton.
He doubled down on his insistence Clinton just plays the “woman’s card” and rejected widespread political critique this line of attack will further hurt him with women voters.
“I’m my own strategist,” Trump said.
“Look, she’s a strong person. She’s going to have to be able to take it. The fact is, the only card she has is the woman’s card. She’s done a lousy job in so many ways and even women don’t like her. … And it’s true, if she were not a woman. She wouldn’t even be in the race.”
“Once I start on Hillary, you’ll see the numbers change,” Trump added.
Trump is the only GOP candidate left who can get to 1,237 delegates needed the nomination, but Ted Cruz’s campaign is working hard to pick off Trump delegates in each state to increase his chances in the event of a contested convention.
Cruz lost badly to Trump in Arizona and Virginia, but this weekend Cruz picked of the majority of delegates in each state this weekend, another testament to his organizational strategy.
Meanwhile, Cruz continued to dig at Trump for not being conservative enough – taking on the tycoon for suggesting he didn’t have a problem with Caitlyn Jenner using the ladies room.
“It doesn’t make sense for grown adult men, strangers, to be alone in a restroom with a little girl,” Cruz told CNN.