The White House Easter Egg Roll came in at a relatively puny 21,000 attendees this year, and here’s what Dan Froomkin observed about the crowd: “I’m gonna guess this is the whitest Easter Egg Roll in a very long time.” Never one to turn down a crowd—a crowd whose size he’ll probably be lying about by the end of the day—Donald Trump came out to woodenly recite a few lines from his stump speech, reportedly speaking for about two whole minutes.
At least it’s the more kiddie-appropriate part of the stump speech, and not the part where he calls for protesters to be beaten. But he’s a little lacking in warmth, to say the least. For reference, here's how it should be done:
So we just want you to have fun. And the theme this year in our final year is pretty simple. It's: Let's celebrate. Let's celebrate all the good work that we've done, all the great messaging we've had. All the amazing change that we've seen in this country. And we want to celebrate our families. We want to celebrate our nation -- everything that makes us strong. It's our diversity, it's our values. That's what makes us strong.
It’s highly doubtful that Trump will be spontaneously comforting sad little children, or playing around with the Easter Bunny.