Although some have never taken his not-yet-declared candidacy seriously to begin with (he has promised to make a decision once The Apprentice season ends), the question that needs to be asked is: Might we very well have seen a man who actually leads in some polls for the GOP nomination for President have his chances killed by…comedy?

For those who saw it live Saturday night on C-SPAN or the other cable news networks or have since viewed it via YouTube as passed on via Facebook or Twitter, “The Donald,” Donald Trump, was royally lampooned almost viciously at the White House Correspondents Dinner by both President Obama and the featured entertainment for the evening, Seth Meyers from Saturday Night Live.

Among the SNL anchorman’s opening jokes was that “Donald Trump has been saying that he will run for president as a Republican, which is surprising because I just assumed he was running as a joke.”

“Donald Trump often appears on Fox, which is ironic because a fox often appears on Donald Trump’s head,”