brings. like in a roulette table, black or red, he bet and said this guy has a problem with the birth certificate. he showed he didn t. that s the president. there wasn t much to say after that, it seems for donald trump. he was a one-trick pony when it came to the birth certificate issue. early on he was very much talking about the economy, talking about china, getting good ground on those issues. then pounced on the birth certificate issue. he was so effective at it, i think he s the reason the white house ended up releasing the long form birth certificate. it was clearly a seering moment at the dinner. he was stone faced, didn t move at all, was clearly bothered by at tack. after that you heard little of donald trump and his numbers started to go down. let s take a look at a montage of trump saying he was serious about running. was there a serious run in this man s heart? let s listen to this. i ve been asked for years to do it and i had no interest.
a pretty steep fall from where he was a month before where he was talking up the birth certificate issue and related matters. the other big factor is he was going to get incredible scrutiny about his business practices. he s embroiled in hundreds of lawsuits around the country. he was going to be facing court depositions. he just got an unfavorable court ruling last friday in tampa in which a federal magistrate said he had to turn over his licensing agreements on over a dozen properties around the world. these are things he s fought to keep confidential over the years. if he was going to be going through with the presidential run, by the way he would have to file the financial disclosure form. you and i both had experiences with him on this issue of his business. here s a rant, frankly, at me when i asked him about this issue of financial disclosures and bankruptcy. take a listen. are you getting your accountants all ready to deal
that for trump. he was a one trick pony. early on he was very much talking about the economy, talking about china, getting good ground on those issues. then pounced on the birth certificate issue. he is so effective. i think that is the reason the white house released the long former istivecate. once the birth certificate is 0u9 there he lost his one big issue. if you remember the koernd s association dinner where president obama took such delight in going of a him, with him in the audience. it was clearly a pretty searing moment. he sat there stone-faced. didn t move at all. was clearly bothered by the attack. of a that you heard very little of trump and his numbers started going down. trump was saying he was serious about running. i want to go back to jim and see if you agree with mark. was there a serious run under this man s heart as mark said? let s listen to this. i ve been asked for years to
2012 for him? a poll, let s take a look at our latest approval poll, how is president obama handle his job as president. this is prior to the capture of osama bin laden. 48% of the country was approving this, of his handling of the presidency. 50% disapproving. so we sort of wanted to ask you what you thought about this. how much effect did the capture of bin laden have? it s interesting. this sort of wiped out the whole donald trump thing from the headlines it too. the president comes out strong, with a bin laden announcement and in just a couple days before, he had been at the white house correspondents association dinner where the chattering classes were remarking about trump and the birth certificate issue and on and on. the other thing, there s been bipartisan praise for how this operation went down. it s only been three days, that could change. for now, some of the things you guys are saying, interesting, on our twitter, ajmc 1967 writes 2012 election ended sunday night.
it was like a big weekend update gone wild. i think it was funny the way that seth meyers brought the attention to trump and i thought it was funny that they got it out there and addressed it immediately especially when barack obama started he addressed it immediately and it was really funny when did the lion king video to say here is my actual birth. i thought it was absolutely funny. do you think it is any indication of how democrats think about donald trump as a potential gop candidate or could possibly get the nomination? they think he is a joke. you guys, it was fun to watch tonight. i m glad that you were able to join in and watch for a little bit. there are some 3,000 plus people at dinner. they hold it each year. the president tonight, you heard noelle talking about the video that the president ran poking fun at himself over the birth certificate issue. the white house correspondent association dinner wrapping up now. we wanted to bring it to you live. a lot of humor ther