Obama spends 40 seconds on Malaysianplane crash before he starts telling jokes

17 Jul, 2014 by Samuel Gonzalez

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The only thing Obama was missing was a drummer for the punch lines.

President Barack Obama provoked fury in the U.S. on Thursday by casually devoting less than a minute to the deaths of 295 people aboard a Malaysian airliner, as he began an often jokey 16-minute speech about the need to expand America’s transportation infrastructure according to the Daily Mail.

 

There are no confirmed American dead, although it was feared around the time the president made his remarks that as many as 23 U.S. citizens had perished.

 

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Obama declared in Wilmington, Delaware that ‘it looks like it may be a terrible tragedy,’ but not before enthusiastically declaring that ‘it is wonderful to be back in Delaware.’
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Originally posted at The Last Tradition