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With Style And Grace, The Obamas Host Final State Dinner
President Tells Donald Trump To ‘Stop Whining’
PRESIDENT OBAMA
President Barack Obama on Tuesday down- played Donald Trump's suggestion that November's election is "rigged," and said the GOP presidential nominee
needs to toughen up.
"I'd advise Mr. Trump to
stop whining and try to go make his case to get votes," Obama said at a White House news conference along- side Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
"If whenever things are going badly for you, you start blaming somebody else, then you don't have what it takes to be in this job," Obama contin- ued. "There are a lot of time things don't go our way or my way ... that's OK, you fight through it."
An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Sunday found Clinton with an 11- point lead nationally over Trump.
During Wednesday’s de- bate, Trump defiantly stated that if he loses, he will not ac- cept the results.
President and Mrs. Obama are gliding through their last few months in office.
Tuesday night's Italian state dinner, the last of the Obama administration, reflected that mood. "We saved the best for last," President Obama said, as the couple welcomed Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and his wife, Agnese Landini to the White House.
The event, attended by guests from the worlds of pol- itics, finance and fashion, was one of the largest of Obama's eight years as president.
From First Lady Obama’s daring and very glamorous rose gold chain mail Atelier Versace gown to the celebrity chef that served all of her favorite dishes, the President and First Lady’s last state dinner was called ‘a bittersweet mo- ment’.
First of all, they went big with an out-sized guest list of 382 VIPs that was light on the famous faces but stuffed with the First Family’s insiders, particularly the first lady’s personal team.
There was White House in- terior designer Michael Smith and the first lady’s for- mer “chief of stuff” Kristen Jarvis. We imagine the Mrs. O’s entire glam squad had to high-tail it downstairs from the residence to the cocktail reception just moments before the first couple make their grand entrance. Represented from that intimate crew were the first lady’s hair stylist
The President and First Lady at their final State Dinner on Tuesday night with the Prime Minister of Italy, Matteo Renzi and his wife, Agnese Landini.
Johnny Wright, her colorist Yene Damtew, her make up artist Carl Ray, her stylist Meredith Koop, and even her personal trainer Cornell McClellan. This is the last state dinner, after all, and the Obamas highly value (and
reward) loyalty.
The evening was a rare mo-
ment of refinement in an oth- erwise crude election season that's occupied Washington. Even the mud slinging wasn't far from President Obama's mind during a din- ner toast.
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