Obama gone viral with his anger translator
- 27 avr. 2015
- 2 min de lecture
The American President is known for his jokes during speeches, but two days ago, part of his speech at the White House Correspondent Dinner went viral.
Already in 2011, Barack Obama was asked to release the video of his birth after his speech, which he did by showing an extract from the Lion’s King introduction.
This year again, Obama did not miss his speech with a extremely well played scene with the help of Keegan-Michael Key, famous actor in the series Key & Peele, starred in the Comedy Central.
Obama introduced Key as “Luther, his anger translator”, who got indignant behind the president’s back while Obama was delivering his speech, completely impassive.
He started by attacking Fox News and CNN concerning rumours of a sharia law in Cleveland and the Ebola coverage. “We were one step away from the Walking Dead” exclaimed Luther while the room filled with laughter.
One other really important point on that speech was the part on the current issue of climate change. While it is suppose to be Luther who gets angry about it, Obama himself express his annoyance towards some members of parliament: “Miami floods on a sunny day, and instead of doing anything about it, we’ve got elected officials throwing snowballs in the Senate!”
He then continues by saying “It is crazy! What about our kids? What kind of stupid, short-sighted, irresponsible bull” before getting interrupted by Luther and a room beaming.
While it is suppose to be a humoristic speech, and I won’t deny it was, it also seems that most of his jokes, were actually what the president really thinks but could not express. First with the part on the press itself, its influence is great and can cause real panic in the public when it is wrongly handled, and all that can be explained easily with the example of Ebola, and its coverage by several American newspapers and news channels.
We also understand the true issue of the climate change, by Obama himself getting angry. I know it is part of his presentation, but it does not make it meaningless.
Here is the video of that part of the speech at the Dinner:
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