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Samantha Bee's snarkiest Trump burns from 'Not' Correspondents' Dinner'

Cara Kelly
USA TODAY

President Trump may have been in Pennsylvania during Samantha Bee's 'Not the White House Correspondents' Dinner' taping Saturday, but burns at his expense were a huge part of the show.

Here are a few of the laugh-inducing cracks at the commander-in-chief.

C.J. Cregg in the house

Allison Janney reprised her role as press secretary from The West Wing in the opening skit, bashing #fakenews and Trump.

"Ms. Bee organized Not the Correspondents' Dinner on the same night as the actual Correspondents' Dinner. Is she trying to undermine the legitimacy of both the press and this president?" a faux reporter asked in a mock press briefing room.

"No, Ms. Bee is trying to undermine the legitimacy of just one of those two things," she countered.

Put it on Mexico's tab

Roasting Trump's claims that he'd get Mexico to pay for his proposed wall, Bee said she wanted all her guests to have a good time.

"But as I promised you in the invitation, at a later date, I will date Mexico to pay for all your drinks."

Praising the press

A lot of time was spent honoring the press corps covering Trump and their dogged determination to get the truth.

"You continue to fact-check the president, as if he some day may get embarrassed," Bee said.

"I hope we've made you proud," correspondent Allana Harkin told reporters on behalf of the Full Frontal crew, "by taking your meticulous work and adding our [expletive] jokes."

Golden age

No Trump roast would be complete without a reference to the unverified intelligence dossier of alleged ties between the president and Russia that contained a particularly salacious detail about showers.

“We are living in a Golden Age of journalism," Bee said. "Unfortunately, that’s partly due to a golden president who’s rumored to enjoy golden showers.”

Liar, liar, pants on Fyre

Some new material was also bound to come up, including a reference to the luxury music festival that was scrapped after reports of extreme disorganization.

"Congratulations Mr. President, you sold people on lies ... You’re basically the presidential version of the Fyre Festival," she said.

W. returns

Will Ferrell was a surprise special guest, channeling his best George Bush.

"History has proven to be kinder to me than many of you thought," he said. "For the longest time, I was considered the worst president of all time. That has changed. And it only took 100 days."

"I just wish someone had told me that all you have to do is say 'fake news' over and over and over again," he went on, about how to handle the press.

"The new guy has thin skin. He's what they call a snowflake. You got those sensitive kids on college campuses who can't listen to arguments that aren't their own ... He's a weak man. He can't even sit in the White House. He runs down to Mar-a-Lago. It sounds like the name of a Tom Clancy novel, The Hunt for Mar-a-Lago."

Ferrell also treated the audience to a look at Bush's latest painting.

"It’s a portrait of Donald Trump. As you can see I’ve exhausted my palette of yellows and oranges. It's a strange hue. I got a new name for that color. They should just call it Mar-a-Lago."

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