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“Obama out”: POTUS ends speech with viral mic drop

President Barack Obama set the internet ablaze late Saturday night with a literal mic drop at the close of his White House Correspondents’ Dinner speech.

“And with that I just have two more words to say: Obama out,” the president said at the close of his speech.

Here it is:

As several people pointed out on Twitter, the line mimicked Kobe Bryant’s “Mamba Out” at the end of the basketball star’s last game.

Here’s our roundup of some of Obama’s better jokes from the speech.

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