At the annual dinner seven years ago, Meyers, then the head writer and Weekend Update anchor on “Saturday Night Live,” cracked a string of jokes aimed at Trump. Meyers himself has reflected on that infamous dinner and the role that he may have played in getting Trump to the White House. “In 2011, I told some jokes about our current president at the White House Correspondents’ dinner, jokes about how he was unqualified to be president. Some have said that night convinced him to run,” Meyers said in his opening monologue. He added that he felt “honored” by Obama’s jokes and that the then-president “delivered them well.”But of Meyers, Trump said: “I didn’t like his routine.

Source: Huffington Post April 30, 2018 15:56 UTC