Donald Trump insists past humiliation didn't keep him from the White House Correspondents' Dinner

President Obama dropped a literal mic Saturday night after roasting Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. The jokes echoed 2011, when Obama and comedian Seth Meyers teamed up to tear apart the billionaire business mogul and his birther movement. Trump was in attendance in 2011, but didn't show this time around.

Trump claims his 2011 experience had nothing to do with his absence Saturday.

"The next day [the press] said, 'Donald Trump had a miserable time, he felt humiliated,'" Trump told CNN on Monday, referring to 2011. "I didn't feel humiliated, I had a great time. So the press is very dishonest. They don't report the truth and therefore it's just easier not to go."

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As for this year? Trump called Obama's 2016 barbs "fine."