“I’m sorry I was a little late tonight, I was running on CP time,” said President Barack Obama tonight kicking off his remarks at his final White House Correspondents’ Dinner. “Which stands for ‘Jokes white people should not make,’” he added in what was the first clear blast of the night in reference to the ill considered and racially themed routine Hillary Clinton and NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio did onstage in the Big Apple a few weeks back to much criticism. With often lackluster response, Obama’s remarks on Saturday night slammed Clinton and also Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and CNN with shout-outs to Game Of Thrones and Dame Helen Mirren.

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.... Mr. Obama riffed at length about Mr. Trump, the billionaire-turned-front-runner, who was not in attendance. The president wondered aloud why Mr. Trump had chosen not to be there.

“You’ve got a room full of reporters, celebrities, cameras, and he said no,” Mr. Obama said. “Is this dinner too tacky for the Donald?”

He joked that Mr. Trump had some foreign policy experience because “he has spent years meeting with leaders from around the world: Miss Sweden, Miss Argentina, Miss Azerbaijan.”

And he noted that Mr. Trump may be the best person to succeed in closing the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

“Trump knows a thing or two about running waterfront properties into the ground,” Mr. Obama said.

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The White House Correspondents’ Association dinner will for the second year in a row be without its primary guest, as US President Donald Trump will skip the legacy Washington DC annual charity event.

Known to be deeply averse to criticism of his person, Trump will instead host a carefully scripted celebratory rally in the state of Michigan, attended only by those who have been vetted for their vocal support of the strikingly polarizing US president.

Initiated in 1921, the annual White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) dinner is a Washington DC tradition, normally attended by both the president and vice president, along with their wives and close advisors.

This year's event will occur as planned, even without Trump. Hosted by 
Comedy Central's The Daily Show contributor and comedian in her own right Michelle Wolf, coverage will begin at 7 p.m. (ET) on Saturday.

The annual charity event is a celebration of the First Amendment of the US Constitution, which reads, in part: "Congress shall make no law […] abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press."

Trump has consistently called media organizations that detail his actions in anything less than a laudatory way "the enemy of the American people."

The world leader's inability to accept countervailing points of view has resulted in the most active swinging employment door of any presidential administration, as an unprecedented 37 White House officials resigned or have been fired in just the first year of his term.

After Trump ducked the WHCA dinner last year, many noted that the last sitting US president to not attend the high-profile event was Ronald Reagan, although he could be excused because he was in a hospital recovering from a bullet wound due to an assassination attempt.

The WHCA dinner is a Washington DC A-list see-and-be-seen event, although since the beginning of the Trump era appearances by high-wattage entertainment and political stars have been sharply cut back, and many before- and after-parties have been cancelled, according to CNN.

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Why would The Donald bother about a slanted press dinner. He can do better jokes than any of them. In fact HE IS THE JOKE. They can't lampoon him. Impossible. And not only that, he is in charge...

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