For those who care, CNN has unearthed video footage of President Obama referring to Kanye West by what will likely become his new nickname — “Jackass” — during a pre-interview chat with CNBC on Monday. The presidental diss came on the heels of the loudmouthed rapper’s tasteless stage-crashing during country cutie Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at the 2009 Video Music Awards in New York City last Sunday night.

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