Obama jabs at GOP: Is this dinner too tacky for the Donald?

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President Obama poked fun at Donald Trump and the GOP field in his final White House Correspondents’ Association dinner speech.
Obama started off by saying he couldn’t figure out why his poll numbers were so high in the last year of his presidency as a photo of the GOP front-runner and rival Ted Cruz flashed on the screen.
{mosads}“Even my aides can’t explain my rising poll numbers. What has changed? Nobody can figure it out,” he said.
Obama pretended to end his speech before saying, “Nah, I’m just kidding, you know I’ve got to talk about Trump.
“Is this dinner too tacky for the Donald? What could he possibly be doing instead? Is he at home eating a Trump steak? Tweeting out insults to Angela Merkel? What’s he doing?” Obama said.
He said Trump could be helpful with closing Guantánamo Bay because “Trump knows a thing or two about running waterfront properties into the ground.”
And he said Trump does have some foreign policy experience — with leaders like “Miss Sweden, Miss Argentina, Miss Azerbaijan.”
Obama didn’t let the night go by without taking a shot at Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, poking at him for the tumultuous GOP race.
“Glad to see you feel you’ve earned the night off,” Obama said. “Congrats on all your success. The Republican Party, the nomination process, it’s all going great. Keep it up.”
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