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The timing was incredible. Trump sat stone faced at correspondence dinner while Obama and others roasted him as a joke. Trump was noticeably angry without cracking a smile. It was hard to watch and very embarassing for him because he predicted Obama would not joke about him.

Were you really offended about the Bachman comment? All I heard him say was that she was born in Canada. I didn't think it was that funny of a joke but I didn't think it was offensive. Clearly, he took some shots at Trump (some of which I did think were funny). But I did not think he went over a line so much there either - I thought the SNL comic went in on that much more and that his stuff was much more edgy

What's really sad is that Trump is taking the spotlight off the real candidates, but this may actually be working to Huckabee's advantage since he has not gotten in the race and it is really Romney, Pawlenty and Gingrich who are taking the hit by being practically ignored by the media while they dwell on "The Donald."

I think Donald Trump magnified the damage to his image by looking so angry and refusing to laugh or at least smile through so much of it. He actually got booed when he entered the room.

If you can't laugh at yourself, politics is the WRONG PLACE for you. Late night comics make a living off of mocking whoever is President at the time. If you can't take it and if you insist on some sort of reverence and public adoration and go berzerk when you don't get it, you'll end up in an asylum.

While a fair amount of Obama's repertoire was directed at Trump, as was Meyers', there were plenty of other Republicans and Democrats who got teased. Obama also had some zingers for the rest of the likely Republican presidential field, but a lot of his jokes were directed at Trump, who is considering running for president in 2012.

For example, one of Obama's jokes had to do with the decisions Trump has to make on his show "Celebrity Apprentice."

"These are the kind of decisions that would keep me up at night," the president quipped about choosing the fates of Meatloaf, Lil Jon and Gary Busey.

While much of the room was laughing during the acts, Trump smiled only a few times and an open-mouthed grin never seemed to actually cross his face. ...

On Sunday Trump said that all the jokes were inappropriate given the problems facing the American people.

"I don't think the American people are having a good time paying $5 gasoline and their clothing prices doubling and all of the other problems that they've got," Trump said. "You look at what's happening with food, so I was thinking to myself as they were doing this, the American people are suffering and we're all having a good time. I think it's inappropriate in certain respects, but I thought the delivery was good."

Trump said he was expecting a few jokes directed at him but not as many as actually came.

"I had no idea it would be to that extent where it was just joke after joke after joke," Trump said.