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WATCH: Obama roasts Romney, Trump and Hillary Clinton at White House dinner

The White House Correspondents Dinner went to the dogs last night.

President Obama cracked up the crowd at the annual DC soiree by joking about recent stories of how he ate dog meat as a boy in Indonesia.

Obama referenced Sarah Palin guest-hosting the “Today” show recently and said it “reminds me of the saying, ‘What’s the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull?’ A pit bull is delicious.”

Obama later quipped: “My stepfather always told me it’s a boy-eat-dog world out there.”

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Television host Jimmy Kimmel (L) alongside First Lady Michelle Obama (R) during the White House Correspondents Association Dinner.

Television host Jimmy Kimmel (L) alongside First Lady Michelle Obama (R) during the White House Correspondents Association Dinner. (AFP/Getty Images)

Lindsay Lohan attends the White House Correspondents Association Dinner.

Lindsay Lohan attends the White House Correspondents Association Dinner. (AFP/Getty Images)

George Clooney at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner.

George Clooney at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner. (AFP/Getty Images)

Actress Sofia Vergara (R) talks with Kim Kardashian (L) as they attend the White House Correspondents Association Dinner in Washington, DC.

Actress Sofia Vergara (R) talks with Kim Kardashian (L) as they attend the White House Correspondents Association Dinner in Washington, DC. (AFP/Getty Images)

He also brought up last year’s dinner — in which he roasted Donald Trump on the eve of the Navy seal raid that took down Osama bin Laden.

“Last year, on this weekend, we finally delivered justice to one of the world’s most notorious individuals,” Obama said. A picture of Trump then flashed on the screen.

In addition to politicians and journalists, celebrities such as George Clooney, Lindsay Lohan, Sofia Vergara, and Reese Witherspoon filled the audience.

Event host Jimmy Kimmel joked about New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s weight.

“I think you’re misunderstanding New Jersey’s slogan,” he told the plus-sized governor, who was in the audience. “It’s not the Olive Garden State.”

Kimmel also joked about Lohan’s past DUI problems when he asked “Miracle on the Hudson” pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, who was also in attendance, to drive her home.

“Just make sure you don’t run into a goose — especially a Grey Goose”

Obama’s other dings at Romney involved the GOP primaries and his rival’s wealth.

Commenting on the “great, magnificent Hilton ballroom” where the dinner was held, Obama told some 2,000 politicians, journalists and celebrities that it was the kind of place that “Mitt Romney would call a little fixer upper.”

“He and I actually have a lot in common,” Obama added. “We both have degrees from Harvard. I have one. He has two. What a snob.”

On the ongoing Republican primaries, the president noted that presumptive GOP nominee Romney had recently taken time out to watch the blockbuster movie “The Hunger Games.”

“It’s a movie about people who court wealthy sponsors and then brutally savage each other until one contestant is left standing. I’m sure this was really a great change of pace for him,” Obama said.

“Everybody is predicting a nasty election. And thankfully, we’ve all agreed that families are off-limits,” Obama added. “Dogs, however, are apparently fair game,” he quipped.

Ahead of the 2012 elections in November, the president reminisced about the changes that had taken place during his first term in office.

“Four years ago, I looked like this,” he said as the audience was shown a photograph of a happy, younger Obama. “Today, I look like this,” he said of a picture of himself looking somber, with noticeably more white hair.

“And four years from now, I will look like this,” Obama mused as a photo of actor Morgan Freeman, who is aged 74, was shown. “That’s not even funny,” Obama said as an appreciative crowd howled with laughter.

The president also gave a nod to the growing popularity and apparent newfound hipness of his former political foe, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

“Four years ago I was locked in a brutal primary battle with Hillary Clinton. Four years later she won’t stop drunk-texting me from Cartagena,” Obama said, referring to Clinton’s recent trip to Colombia where she was photographed dancing to Cuban music at a local club and downing a beer.

Obama wrapped up his remarks by paying tribute to journalists, including bloggers, whom he said helped to “protect our freedom, our democracy and our way of life.”

The president ended his speech saying, “I have to get the Secret Service home in time for their new curfew.”

Kim Kardashian, Kate Upton, Claire Danes, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Rudd, Sigourney Weaver, Eva Longoria, Viola Davis, Kerry Washington, Rachel Zoe, Goldie Hawn and Josh Hutcherson were among the celebrities at the annual event.

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