President Barack Obama mocked his would-be rival Donald Trump at a Washington dinner, sarcastically deriding the "credentials and breadth of experience" of real estate mogul and reality television host as he watched stone-faced.
Mr Obama speaking at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, the annual gathering of the Washington political establishment and glitterati, revelled in what his aides view as a major victory over his critics last week by releasing his full birth certificate, as Mr Trump had demanded.
"Donald Trump is here tonight," said Mr Obama, beaming. "Now, I know that he's taken some flak lately, but no one is prouder to put this birth certificate to rest than The Donald. Now he can get to focusing on the issues that matter.
"Like, did we fake the moon landing? What really happened at Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac?"
Roswell refers to an incident in Roswell, New Mexico, where, according to some theories, an object that crashed in 1947 was an extraterrestrial spacecraft carrying alien occupants. Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur were rap stars whose deaths are the subject of continuing controversy.
