White House Correspondence Dinner A Smashing Success; of course trump the lump didn't like it; but it was a smashing success!
The white house correspondence dinner was a smashing success. Of course arrogant government officials who only want to be praised rather than the truth about their shortcomings revealed for the world to see whined and stamped their feet, but the comedienne Wolf who delivered a stunning monologue to an otherwise boring occasion should be given credit for getting people to watch this stupid boring show about stodgy arrogant and quite stupid government officials and true to form their egos were so severely bruised they couldn't deal with the humor. Now they sling lies and mud at each other in reality, so why are they worried about the jokes of a comedienne? Seems like these officials need to find another line of work since they can't seem to take a joke. What happened to all this 'freedom and the constitution and right to free speech' or is it your free to speak as long as all you intend to do is shower them with unworthy praise?? Stands to figure; see trumps arrogance is catching within the government. The associated press sponsor got so chicken those government officials were gonna' come back on them they issued a statement quickly. So much for all this 'freedom' under this governments 'democratic system'. Yeah, what the hell ever.
Comedian Michelle Wolf performs during a gig in New York City on June 29. Wolf asked Saturday night whether the media is "obsessed with Trump." | Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for Hilarity For Charity
Wolf routine stuns White House Correspondents' Dinner
Trump administration officials walk out as comedian attacks Sarah Huckabee Sanders and others, delivering a harsh, risque performance in the president's absence.
Members of the Trump administration walked out of the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday night after comedian Michelle Wolf ripped into White House staffers, including press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, in the absence of the president himself.
A year after the White House boycotted the annual dinner — and with President Donald Trump holding a competing campaign-style rally in Michigan — director of strategic communications Mercedes Schlapp and her husband, conservative activist Matt Schlapp, were among those who marched out of the ballroom at the Washington Hilton long before Wolf's keynote routine was over.
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Footage broadcast live on cable TV networks showed Sanders sitting at the head table on stage stone-faced, wincing and at times raising her eyebrows as Wolf compared her to a character on the dystopian TV series "The Handsmaid's Tale" and to an "Uncle Tom" for white women.
"I actually really like Sarah. I think she's very resourceful. But she burns facts and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smokey eye," Wolf joked about Sanders. "Like maybe she's born with it; maybe it's lies. It's probably lies."
It was a risque and uneven routine at first met with laughs but often greeted by awkward silence. Wolf laced into the president and repeatedly brought up his comments from the "Access Hollywood" tape. The performance evinced memories of the 2006 dinner, at which Stephen Colbert savagely satirized the Bush administration.
Wolf opened her act with the line, “Good evening, here we are at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Like a porn star says when she’s about to have sex with Trump, let’s get this over with,” the first of many bawdy insults.
Wolf's other targets included Vice President Mike Pence, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, and the president's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.
But much of the room went silent with Wolf's personalized attacks — and an abortion joke that wasn't well received — and after the Comedy Central comedian joked that she wished a tree would fall on Conway, adding that she did not hope that the White House aide would get hurt, but only "that she would get stuck."
"It’s why America hates the out of touch leftist media elites," Mercedes Schlapp wrote on Twitter afterward.
Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer deemed the evening a "disgrace" in a tweet, to which Wolf replied: "Thanks!"
Echoing Spicer, former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus called Wolf's set "R/X rated" and said the performance left Trump as the clear winner.
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