Obama cracks jokes at annual White House dinner Around 2,000 Hollywood celebrities and members of the Washington elite rubbed shoulders at the annual dinner of the White House Correspondents' Association. President Barack Obama gave a humorous speech, poking fun at Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney. Looking back over his four years in office, he remarked on how much more grey there is in his hair. The president also pointed out his similarities with the presumed nominee, Mitt Romney, adding: "We both think of our wives as our better halves, and the American people agree to an insulting extent." We both have degrees from Harvard. I have one, he has two. What a snob," he said alluding to comments by former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, who dropped out of the presidential primary campaign earlier this month. Santorum called Obama a snob for encouraging young Americans to attend college. But Obama touched on serious themes as well, remembering The New York Times' Anthony Shadid and Marie Colvin of the Sunday Times who died while covering the uprising in Syria. Then he returned to the lighter side: "I had a lot more material prepared but I have to get the Secret Service home in time for their new curfew."