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Jay Carney: Obama ‘Surprisingly Subdued’ Hearing News That Trump Isn’t Running

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White House Press Secretary Jay Carney was asked earlier today whether President Obama was happy about Donald Trump’s decision not to run for President. The exchange with reporters resulted in Carney admitting Obama had a “surprisingly subdued reaction,” yet some reporters had a couple of amusing follow-up questions.

After Carney also said Obama “did not have a particularly notable reaction” to Trump’s news, one reporter joked “is there a certificate proving that?” Another reporter seemed surprised there wasn’t more of a celebration and asked “fistpounds around the White House?” Overall Carney laughed throughout the questioning, which seemed to suggest that at least he was happy Trump is gone.

Watch the clip from C-SPAN below:

(h/t Politico)

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  • Colorado_Conservative

    Bet Obama wishes he wouldn’t have released that fabricated birth certificate now!!!!

  • Gasket

    Colorado_Conservative_Dumbass said:
    Bet Obama wishes he wouldn’t have released that fabricated birth certificate now!!!!

    What a sorry parallel universe you birthers exist in.

  • WCinWI

    Obama equally subdued on all of the waivers that his health care bill received.

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  • Cancon2

    Give them another day or so and then they can screw the message on this story as well. The worst communications team of all TIME!

  • Barack Must Go

    I’m sure Barack made some inappropriate honky jokes.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    Some brave reporter , not Tommy , of course , should ask when Rap Thug Common’s next White House concert is .

  • timzank

    WCinWI said:
    Obama equally subdued on all of the waivers that his health care bill received. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    1 out of 5 in Nancy Pelosi’s district. What a coincidence.

  • timzank

    The Lantern of Truth said:
    Some brave reporter , not Tommy , of course , should ask when Rap Thug Common’s next White House concert is .

    Next appearance will be over cocktails with Jayzee in the situation room.

    http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2010/03/jay-z-beyonce-in-the-house—-and-the-situation-room/1

    Bammy is all about his peeps partyin’ wittem at da house.

  • brownsound

    The Lantern of Truth said:
    Some brave reporter , not Tommy , of course , should ask when Rap Thug Common’s next White House concert is .

    Tommy is only a reporter part of the time. When he’s calling people racist, he’s a “columnist”. He’ll tell you so.

  • notsofast

    Colorado_Conservative said:
    Bet Obama wishes he wouldn’t have released that fabricated birth certificate now!!!!

    LOL

  • felixw

    Perhaps Obama — like the liberal media and Mediaite — thought that he had won the next election by pulling out that long form birth certificate. After all, judging my media coverage, that was the only issue on voters’ minds.

    But was it really? Here is a partial list of the “stories that cannot be named” in the mainstream press:

    The U.S. government is now borrowing an additional $58,000 EVERY SECOND

    Unemployment is still hovering around 10% — higher than at any point during the Bush administration.

    But real unemployment — including people who are under-employed or too discourage to look for jobs — is actually closer to a whopping 20%

    House price still haven’t recovered after almost two-and-a-half years of Obama.

    Afghanistan casualties in the last year are higher than at any point during the Bush administration

    20% of all waivers exempting businesses from Obamacare requirements have been given out to constituents of Nancy Pelosi.

    The brief and modest improvement in Obama’s favorability rating after the Bin Laden raid has now dissipated.

    Five years after the Secure Fence Act of 2006 passed, mandating a border fence, the border is still unsecured

    The Libya war front continues without any clear notion of what the endgame is.

    US GNP, which went up during every year of the Bush administration, started falling during the first year of the Obama administration and still hasn’t recovered.

    The unfunded future liabilities from Democrat entitlements is now more than $1 million per taxpayer!

    Health insurance premiums, which Obama promised would decline if we passed his bill, are rising faster than ever.

    So who is surprised that the media — and maybe even Obama — had this fantasy about Trump and birth certificates. They dreamed of all these real issues falling by the wayside and that he could win the 2012 election by showing his birth certificate to a joke candidate with a bad toupee? But the Left (and the mainstream media) may ignore reality, but it hasn’t gone away.

  • notsofast

    Yes, and he is quite subdued over these as well:

    9.0% unemployment
    Record monthly deficits
    Record debt
    Record # of foreclosures
    Record # on welfare
    Record # living in poverty
    Record job losses in 2009
    Record high gas prices

  • WCinWI

    timzank said:
    1 out of 5 in Nancy Pelosi’s district. What a coincidence.

    AND the entire state of Nevada I believe. 2012 is gonna be AWESOME.

  • Barack Must Go

    Overall Carney laughed throughout the questioning, which seemed to suggest that at least he was happy Trump is gone.

    Trump isn’t running for president, does not necessarily equate to Trump is gone. If Obama was subdued, which isn’t his mean girl style, it will be short lived.

    The Donald is not one to let anyone, let alone a punk like Obama take advantage of him at that left wing bomb throwers dinner.

    Barack’s chickens will soon be coming home to roost, when he least expects it ( 7 point drop in poll #’s ) expect it.

    The last laugh, actually the last 200 laughs will be at Barack’s expense.

    Let The Games Begin ……..

  • WillP

    WCinWI said:
    AND the entire state of Nevada I believe. 2012 is gonna be AWESOME.

    You still believe 2012 will be awesome because of the Palin/West ticket? I remember some really nutty comments people make here. If you really believe 2012 will be awesome for the GOP I encourage you to look at past precedents with an incumbent president with high personal approval numbers. A lot can change between now and then, but there are very strong reasons why the biggest hitters in the GOP such as Christie, Huckabee, and Jeb Bush are sitting this one out. Think about it.

  • mediadoubt

    I think by “notably subdued” Carney meant that no one gives a rat’s ass about Trump. The Donald’s freak show had done about as much damage to ‘Lican credibility as it was going to do, so who cares?

    And besides, now that the Newtster is formally in the game, the creepy factor is right back up there again, and now the self-immolation can move on to what ‘Licans laughably call their “intellectual” cred.

    This is fun.

  • Barack Must Go

    mediadoubt said:
    I think by “notably subdued” Carney meant that no one gives a rat’s ass about Trump. The Donald’s freak show had done about as much damage to ‘Lican credibility as it was going to do, so who cares?

    And besides, now that the Newtster is formally in the game, the creepy factor is right back up there again, and now the self-immolation can move on to what ‘Licans laughably call their “intellectual” cred.

    This is fun.

    Newt got fired yesterday ___hole.

  • mediadoubt

    Barack Must Go said:
    Newt got fired yesterday ___hole.

    Well, no one said it would take very long to send the ‘Licans intellectual pretensions up in smoke.

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