Donald Trump and the field of potential GOP presidential candidates weren't the only ones Saturday Night Live's Seth Meyers had a bit of fun with at the White House Correspondents' Dinner this year. He also gave President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Rep. Paul Ryan and our leaders in Congress who are proud of "adult conversations" and yammering on about bills being too long to read some grief as well.

He also got a shot in at the "tea party" and Ginni Thomas. After complimenting Michelle Obama for how good she looked right now compared to the day President Obama was inaugurated, Meyers said this:

MEYERS: Now you on the other hand Mr. President, have aged a little. What happened to you? When you were sworn in you looked like the guy from the Old Spice commercial. Now you look like Louis Gossett Senior. I've never said this to anyone before, but maybe you should start smoking again.

Is this the change you were talking about? Mr. President look at your hair. If your hair gets any whiter the tea party is going to endorse it. Oh, I'm going to get an angry voice mail from Ginni Thomas in 19 years.

President Obama took the ribbing pretty well tonight which is more than I can say for Donald Trump who looked like he was sucking on a lemon by the time this thing was over. Granted Meyers went a whole lot easier on the President, but I'm curious how Trump's going to react after tonight because everyone knows his ego isn't going to let the roasting he just took go without him saying something about it.

No one can honestly say that Trump should not have seen this coming after all of the birther, racist crap the corporate media has allowed him to go out there and spew for the last couple of weeks or that he didn't deserve to get skewered for it at this event.

I await Trump melting down on national television in 10... 9... 8...

With the rapidly vanishing Middle Class, there was a time when the Middle Class was a source of all worries and stress. The Middle Class was the class of people bearing the burden of the Cold War, Cold War jitters and Cold War Anxieties. At least it seemed so by the amount of media attention given to it.

Granted, the sprawl to the suburbs was brought about as the direct result of life in a Post-War world and the ensuing Post-War Baby Boom. But there was that nagging fear in the back of everyone's mind that it could all be gone in an instant, if someone just pushed the button.

And because of that fear everything seemed a little out of balance. Values, accomplishments, anxieties - it all seemed just a little skewed and subsequently the source of a lot of speculation and observation by mainstream media.

One of those came by way of the weekly series The Open Mind, which was a weekly talk show where eminent people in their respective fields talked about the pressing issues of the day. On this particular day in January 1961, the subject was Status, Success and Suburbia. And taking part in the discussion were Sloane Wilson, author of The Man In The Grey Flannel Suit. Dr. Richard Gordon, Psychiatrist and author of The Split Level Trap and Anthropologist Dr. Margaret Mead.

Margaret Mead: “Of course this great happiness of people who lived in a feudal farm, and the happiness of people who live up in the country. This beautiful picture that Dr. Gordon drew of this lovely small town, you know where everybody helped everybody and everybody’s mother came in and looked after the baby, and nobody was sick. I think we overdraw these contrasts with other people, just as we think of South Sea Islanders as people who are lying under trees eating Breadfruit dropping in their mouths and we don’t know how long it takes to cook Breadfruit. And we draw all of these pictures to an exaggerated degree. And one of the things that’s wrong with America at present is they’re not paying attention to the things that matter in the world. They’re pushing away from them every form of World responsibility, and then they’re sitting around having ulcers. And one of the reasons they’re having ulcers is they’re denying a great many of the realities in the world.”

In short, as a nation we were scared shitless. And it was no wonder Tranquilizers burst on to the scene and alcohol consumption skyrocketed. The irony is, by the end of the decade the paradigm shifted so radically that the middle class, those people of Suburbia, somehow got lost in the shuffle.

And now they are part of the vast ranks of the unemployed, the foreclosed and the marginalized.

Speaking of unemployed, foreclosed and marginalized . . . .

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President Obama might have given Donald Trump some heartburn tonight at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, but Saturday Night Live's Seth Meyers just stuck a fork in him. He's done. Meyers got after the entire line of potential Republican presidential candidates here, but he was brutal to Trump.

Some of the funnier lines.

Donald Trump said he will run as a Republican, which is surprising because I thought he was running as a joke.

Trump said he's friends with the blacks, but unless the blacks are a white family, I think he's mistaken.

The night started out bad for Trump and went downhill from there.

Time for your weekly podcast with The Professional Left, otherwise known as our own Driftglass and Bluegal.

Links for this podcast:

Blue Gal (for once) on David Effing Brooks.

Lawrence O'Donnell throws Orly Taitz off his show

You can listen to the archives at The Professional Left Podcast. Have a great weekend and enjoy the podcast everyone.

President Obama had some fun with Donald Trump and some of his fellow potential Republican presidential candidates at the White House Correspondents' Dinner tonight. Between Obama roasting him here and Seth Meyers who followed the President and was harsher yet, I imagine the Donald regrets going to the dinner.

It was marathon day in Music City, and 30,000 people hit the streets this morning to run their butts off. It's only fitting then that I post this song off of Van Halen's self-titled album. What's your favorite 'running' song?

On this day, thirty years ago President Reagan addressed a joint session of Congress and appeared for the first time since the assassination attempt some weeks earlier.

This address, outlining his proposal for the economy didn't leave many doubts as to who was going to win and who was going to lose.

Pres. Reagan: “The economic recovery package that I’ve outlined to you over the past few weeks is, I deeply believe, the only answer that we have left. Reducing the growth of spending, cutting marginal tax rates, providing relief from over regulation and following a non-inflationary and predictable monetary policy, are interwoven measures which will insure that we have addressed each of the severe dislocations which threaten our economic future. These policies will make our economy stronger. And the stronger economy will balance the budget which we’re committed to do by 1984.”

Which never happened. Oh, the hindsight. It's also ironic that twenty years ago President Clinton said we'd have the National Debt paid off in ten years.

Meanwhile, have you noticed gas is inching its way up to $5.00 a gallon?

And for some reason, some insane smokescreen of a reason, we're still hearing about birth certificates.

Here is the Reagan address, as broadcast by NPR (the network the Republicans de-funded) on April 28, 1981.

And, if that weren't enough - there were other things going on in the world on that particular day and you can hear all about them here:

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It was marathon day in Music City, and 30,000 people hit the streets this morning to run their butts off. It's only fitting then that I post this song off of Van Halen's self-titled album. What's your favorite 'running' song?

Well, it looks like birther king Donald Trump and his hair didn't exactly get a warm welcome at the White House Correspondents' Dinner tonight.

The Wrap:

Trump arrived on the red carpet at Washington’s Hilton Hotel with his wife, Melania, shortly at 7:00 p.m. (ET). After giving a brief interview with a group of several of media outlets, Trump -- who was invited to the event as a guest of the Washington Post -- walked away to a chorus of audible boos from the media members on the press line. (And it wasn't because they wanted to hear Trump talk more.)

Trump's entrance briefly took the spotlight away from the other celebrity arrivals, including Mila Kunis, Scarlett Johansson, David Arquette, Elizabeth Banks, Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Piven and at least one of the Wayans Brothers.

(Nicole:) Trump made himself an easy target for jokes at the annual Nerd Prom. Heather documents both President Obama and comedian Seth Myers rendering Trump completely ridiculous. And Keith Olbermann got tickled over the prank Twitter exec Katie Jacobs Stanton played on The Donald.

Donald Trump said he will run as a Republican, which is surprising because I thought he was running as a joke.

Well if wasn't already, he certainly is now and his sour puss proved that he knew it too.

From the GOP-Is-Out-Of-Touch-With-Real-America Department: more proof that the Republicans cannot comprehend what life is like for most Americans, Montana Republican Congressman Denny Rehberg told a town hall audience that he feels their pain, because he is "cash poor" and "struggling" as a small businessman, just like they are.

Except:

While Rehberg calls himself poor and complains that he’s struggling, the fact is that he is, as of 2009 records, the 14th richest member of the House of Representatives. Opensecrets.org estimates that his average net worth in 2009 was $31 million. If he’s struggling on that, one has to wonder if he’s really a good arbiter of what’s fair for Main Street America.

No kidding. A net worth of $31 million? No wonder he thinks Medicare is unnecessary.