President Obama Thursday night used his state dinner with Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to mock the GOP presidential candidate lineup.
In his official toast, he took a shot at both Sen. Ted Cruz’s birth in Calgary, Canada, and Donald Trump’s promise to build a wall on the U.S. southern border.
After celebrating the “values that we share” with Canada, Obama said that those values have had an impact on the 2016 election, according to a press pool report of his comments.
“Where else could a boy born in Calgary grow up to run for president of the United States?” said the president in an apparent reference to the Texas senator.
.@POTUS and @FLOTUS welcome the Trudeaus before tonight’s State Dinner. #CanadaVisit https://t.co/VaYSxDRjnI
— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) March 11, 2016
Then, the pool report added, “Obama jokingly commends Canada for having rejected a wall along the Southern border.”
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
