Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio's daily program "The Dean Obeidallah Show" and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Follow him @DeanObeidallah. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion articles on CNN

(CNN) Jokes on "Saturday Night Live" at the expense of Donald Trump have triggered the notoriously thin-skinned President numerous times over the past few years -- as evidenced by his angry tweets lashing out at the show. Trump has taken to Twitter to call the show everything from "not funny" to being a part of the media's "total Republican hit job." He stunningly even called for the iconic comedy program to be canceled for mocking him in the closing weeks of the 2016 campaign.

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Through all of this, "SNL" was simply presenting their comedic take on Trump -- as they have done for all Presidents since the show launched in October 1975.

But on this week's episode, the show took it a step further and intentionally trolled Trump —and they did it by taking a page out of Trump's own playbook and then getting it to trend on his favorite social media platform: Twitter. In a word, "SNL"'s trolling of Trump was: Perfect!

The master class in Trump trolling took place during "SNL"'s Weekend Update segment, co-hosted by comedians Colin Jost and Michael Che. Jost, with an image over his shoulder of the stock market chart showing last week's massive drop with the words "Stock Market plunges" adjacent to Trump's face, began by telling us , "The stock market this week posted its largest point loss in history, which a lot of people are now referring to as the 'Trump slump.'"

He then adds, "And by a lot of people, I mean me. The same way when Trump says 'a lot of people' are saying something, he just means he is."

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