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President Obama didn't pass up a chance to take some jabs at the Republicans among others during this year's White House Correspondents Dinner, and I think he may have upstaged the featured comedian this year, Jimmy Kimmel.

Here are some of the better lines from the first clip:

We gather during a historic anniversary. Last year at this time, in fact on this very weekend, we finally delivered justice to one of the world’s most notorious individuals.

Cue to a picture of "the Donald" who was the butt of the jokes during last year's dinner.

This year, we gather in the midst of a heated election season and Axelrod tells me I should never miss a chance to reintroduce myself to the American people. Tonight, this is how I'd like to begin. My name is Barack Obama. My mother was born in Kansas. My father was born in Kenya and I was born of course in Hawaii.

Followed by a wink that even had Newt Gingrich laughing.

Four years ago, I was locked in a brutal primary battle with Hillary Clinton. Four years later, she won't stop drunk-texting me from Cartegana.

Anyway it's great to be here this evening in the vast, magnificant Hilton ballroom, or what Mitt Romney would call, a little fixer-upper.

Jimmy got his start years ago on The Man Show. In Washginton, that's what we call a Congressional hearing on contraception.

Even Sarah Palin's getting back into the game, guest hosting on The Today Show, which reminds me of an old saying, what's the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? A pit bull is delicious.

Here's part two and some quotes from that clip are below the fold.

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Even though it's way too late for Donald Trump to mount any kind of serious presidential campaign and to get on the ballot in any of the remaining states if he were to throw his hat into the ring at this late date, Sean Hannity was still allowing Donald Trump to pretend like he might run for president this election cycle on his show this Thursday on Fox.

Hannity also allowed him this huge whopper, which is that he's somehow not allowed to run as long as his show, The Apprentice is still on the air. Trump could have given up that show and run any time he wanted to if he weren't still so concerned about having the income from the show still come in. And apparently Sean Hannity has a really short memory about Trump's flameout when anyone was actually still taking him seriously earlier last year -- Donald Trump's unbelievable candidacy: Its 15 seconds are just about up.

It's really pitiful watching Hannity play right into Trump's hands with helping him with some self-promotion so his next season of The Apprentice gets extended and with feeding the man's ego with any type of air time, which he doesn't deserve.

The only good thing about Donald Trump showing his mug on the air and pretending yet again, that his television show is somehow interfering with a presidential run, is having an excuse to post these videos of Trump being humiliated at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. They should be shown in a continuous loop any time someone pretends we should take him seriously as a presidential contender and not just another grifter like his buddy Palin.

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Donald Trump is apparently not done turning himself into more of a joke than he is already after his meeting with Rick Perry, where Governor "Goodhair" decided it was a good idea to keep this birther conspiracy theory nonsense going in a desperate attempt to keep himself relevant with GOP primary voters since flaming out in the polls after some horrid debate performances.

Trump appeared on Fox's On the Record with Greta Van Susteren Tuesday night, and it appears that being humiliated at the White House Correspondents Dinner earlier this year wasn't quite enough to shut him up with the birther nonsense.

I really have to wonder if "The Donald" would like a repeat of the skewering he already took earlier this year if he keeps this up.

Here's President Obama making a mockery of him -- Trump Gets Roasted by President Obama at White House Correspondents Dinner.

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And Seth Meyers finishing him off -- Trump Gets Skewered by Seth Meyers at White House Correspondents Dinner.

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Jack Cafferty almost pretends here that Donald Trump was ever a serious presidential candidate for 2012 and asks if there's any doubt that he doesn't have a chance in hell of winning after the thumping he took at the White House Correspondents' Dinner last weekend by President Obama and SNL's Seth Meyers.

I'm still just thoroughly disgusted with the media for the coverage the man got leading up to his skewering at the WHCD. Maybe a better question for Cafferty would be is the media done finally propping this grifter up which they never should have done in the first place? Since they're still propping Mr. Noun and a Verb and 9-11 Rudy pootie as somehow serious as well... again, I don't have much hope for when it will stop.

I think we need a new name for the embarrassingly large number of potential GOP candidates that are pretending they might run but are never going to and just want to line their pockets in the process. Maybe something like Grifterpalooza. Thoughts welcomed on that one.

From The Cafferty File -- Is a presidential run already over for Trump?:

The morning after his TV show "Celebrity Apprentice" was interrupted by the breaking news that Osama bin Laden had been killed, Donald Trump released a statement congratulating President Obama and calling for an end to party politics for "the next several days."

He has been uncharacteristically quiet since, especially for a guy who spent weeks adding fuel to the “birther” controversy, badgering the president on a number of issues and tiptoeing around talk of his own presidential run in 2012.

Chances are Trump has been quiet, in part, because he is still smarting from the White House Correspondents' dinner two Saturdays ago. President Obama and the evening's emcee, "Saturday Night Live's" Seth Myers, separately skewered Trump at the gala event with a series of jokes on everything from his lack of political experience to his hair. It was a world class beatdown, and by the look on his face - Trump was there– he didn't take the jokes very well. But luckily for him, the news on bin Laden limited that embarrassment quickly.

Last week Trump announced he was pulling out of an appearance to drive the Indianapolis 500 pace car at the upcoming race on May 29th. Trump said it wouldn't be appropriate for the spotlight to be on him during the race's 100th anniversary if he had a possible presidential run on his mind. It may be the first time in recorded history that Donald Trump declined the spotlight.

Then there's this: According to a CNN Opinion Research poll, 57 percent of Americans say Trump is tough enough to handle a crisis in this country and 51 percent say he can get the economy back on its feet. But only 37 percent say Trump can manage the government. And only about one-third says he's honest and trustworthy. These poll numbers are as dismal as his chances of being elected.

Here’s my question to you: Is a presidential run already over for Donald Trump?

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C-SPAN featured some past White House Correspondents' Dinners last Saturday and here's Al Franken back in 1996 poking fun at Don Imus, President Clinton, Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh among others.

Open thread below...

Our own John Amato visited the Thom Hartmann show today and discussed the reaction to the death of Osama bin Laden, Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner and the media feeding the birther nonsense over the last couple of weeks.

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Donald Trump can't take a joke.

Appearing of Fox News the morning after President Barack Obama and Seth Meyers skewered him at the White House Correspondents Dinner, the reality star wasn't laughing.

"Well I really understood what I was getting into," Trump said. "I didn't know I would be virtually the sole focus but I guess when you are leading in most of the polls, that tends to happen."

"It is inappropriate in certain respects but I thought [Obama's] delivery was good. I thought Seth Meyers, frankly, his delivery was not good. He's a stutterer and he was really having a hard time," he added.

Shortly after the event ended Saturday night, New York Magazine asked The Donald if he thought the speeches were funny.

"No, not really. Some were fun, but not the greatest," he said.

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Donald Trump and the field of potential GOP presidential candidates weren't the only ones Saturday Night Live's Seth Meyers had a bit of fun with at the White House Correspondents' Dinner this year. He also gave President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Rep. Paul Ryan and our leaders in Congress who are proud of "adult conversations" and yammering on about bills being too long to read some grief as well.

He also got a shot in at the "tea party" and Ginni Thomas. After complimenting Michelle Obama for how good she looked right now compared to the day President Obama was inaugurated, Meyers said this:

MEYERS: Now you on the other hand Mr. President, have aged a little. What happened to you? When you were sworn in you looked like the guy from the Old Spice commercial. Now you look like Louis Gossett Senior. I've never said this to anyone before, but maybe you should start smoking again.

Is this the change you were talking about? Mr. President look at your hair. If your hair gets any whiter the tea party is going to endorse it. Oh, I'm going to get an angry voice mail from Ginni Thomas in 19 years.

President Obama took the ribbing pretty well tonight which is more than I can say for Donald Trump who looked like he was sucking on a lemon by the time this thing was over. Granted Meyers went a whole lot easier on the President, but I'm curious how Trump's going to react after tonight because everyone knows his ego isn't going to let the roasting he just took go without him saying something about it.

No one can honestly say that Trump should not have seen this coming after all of the birther, racist crap the corporate media has allowed him to go out there and spew for the last couple of weeks or that he didn't deserve to get skewered for it at this event.

I await Trump melting down on national television in 10... 9... 8...

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President Obama might have given Donald Trump some heartburn tonight at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, but Saturday Night Live's Seth Meyers just stuck a fork in him. He's done. Meyers got after the entire line of potential Republican presidential candidates here, but he was brutal to Trump.

Some of the funnier lines.

Donald Trump said he will run as a Republican, which is surprising because I thought he was running as a joke.

Trump said he's friends with the blacks, but unless the blacks are a white family, I think he's mistaken.

The night started out bad for Trump and went downhill from there.

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President Obama had some fun with Donald Trump and some of his fellow potential Republican presidential candidates at the White House Correspondents' Dinner tonight. Between Obama roasting him here and Seth Meyers who followed the President and was harsher yet, I imagine the Donald regrets going to the dinner.