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BY BOB HOLT
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
At least Charlie Sheen isn’t from Trenton. But New Jersey’s capital has been hearing its share of jokes recently in the late night talk show scene just the same.
Jordan Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein, the Middle Eastern nation’s ambassador to the United Nations, on Tuesday night delivered a jab at Trenton during an exchange with the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart, a Lawrence High Class of 1979 graduate.
The Trentonian reported the prince was looking to plug the King of Jordan’s new book, and when Stewart told him it was time for a commercial break, the prince quipped:
“Please let me plug his majesty’s book one more time. I have to get it to Number One within a few weeks or I will end up ambassador to Trenton, New Jersey!”
According to the Huffington Post, Ra'ad stated that in the book, Abdullah "warns the reader that unless real change came in the Middle East, unless we empowered our youth, and we created some sort of balance regarding opportunities for women...the Arab world was going to be in trouble”.
The latest one-liner at the expense of Trenton comes just weeks Letterman took a shot at Trenton during a special Top 10 list at the Grammy Awards. When Letterman reached No. 7, he cracked that Jay-Z’s uplifting megahit “Empire State of Mind” was about Trenton.
Jay-Z is a Trenton Central High School dropout who went from alleged cocaine distributor to monster rap mogul.
Meanwhile, according to the Trentonian, Trenton Mayor Tony Mack’s brother “Muscles,” was indicted in a fraud probe at the local water works, and Mack last month announced “temporary layoffs” for 550 employees to battle an $18 million budget deficit.
Letterman’s dig at the city did prompt a response from former mayor Doug Palmer. “Hey, I love Jay-Z. Love the song. Love David Letterman,” Palmer said. But “Trenton is still a great city and that’s my state of mind.”
