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The President has no more f---s to give
President Barack Obama put on his tux for his eighth and final White House Correspondents' Dinner Saturday night, the one night a year where the president gets to tell some jokes that show what he (or she, as Obama not-so-subtly predicts will be the case next year) is really thinking. And Obama didn't pull any punches, zinging Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and himself in a set that would pass muster at the Comedy Cellar.
Obama took the podium to Anna Kendrick's song "Cups," which goes "you're gonna miss me when I'm gone."
"You can't say it, but you know it's true," he said with a mischievous smirk.
He then told some jokes making fun of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, first by saying he was a little late because he was running on "CPT," which stands for "jokes white people should not make," a reference to Hillary Clinton's recent ill-advised appearance with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who made a joke about "colored people's time."
When that joke got a big laugh, he built upon it by referencing Clinton's close ties to Wall Street, saying, "If this material works well, I'm going to use it at Goldman Sachs next year. Earn me some serious Tubmans."
He then moved into some jokes at his own expense, talking about how much he's aged since taking office. Eight years ago he was young and full of hope, but now he's "gray, grizzled, just counting down the days to my death panel."
He told a Game of Thrones joke that didn't go over well in the room but is actually really good -- he acknowledged the Republican senators in the room, and then instructed security to lock the doors and force a hearing to approve Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, which will "be like the Red Wedding."
Obama saved his sharpest darts for Republican candidate Donald Trump, though, saying things like, "there's one area where Donald's experience could be invaluable, and that's closing Guantanamo. Because Trump knows a thing or two about running waterfront properties into the ground." He even made a joke about Trump not being worth as much money as he says he is -- the one subject that was off-limits at Donald Trump's Comedy Central roast.
He shouted out some of the celebrities in the room, like Helen Mirren, Rachel McAdams and Mark Ruffalo from Spotlight, and Kendall Jenner, who he admitted he doesn't really know what she does.
He ended the set with two words: "Obama out," as he pulled a mic from the podium and dropped it to the floor.
Obama literally drops the mic to end his final White House Correspondents Dinner: https://t.co/HKV1BTwrK6 pic.twitter.com/hZrB73FwCn