Summary
The White House Correspondents’ Association canceled comedian Amber Ruffin’s headlining appearance at its annual fundraising dinner.
The decision follows concerns over Ruffin’s anti-Trump comments and growing tensions with the Trump White House, which has restricted press access and pool assignments.
The association’s board voted unanimously for the change, seeking to avoid political division.
This shift mirrors its 2019 approach, when historian Ron Chernow spoke instead of a comedian amid similar Trump-era scrutiny.
Lmao “seeking to avoid political division”. No you’re avoiding dissonance. The GOP MO is to stoke political division, it’s literally what gives them power.
Also “anti-trump” comments instead of just calling them concerns or critiques.
Language like this is how consent is manufacturered. Language is powerful at subtly shift how one percieves a situation, and leading people to a predetermined conclusion.
Cowards.
Once again demonstrating their collective cowardice…
Obeying in advance. Can’t risk upsetting Don Mangolini. The Mafia Admin wins again.
🙄 🙄
Seeking to avoid political division… through appeasement? Has that ever been effective? The press truly has abandoned their responsibility.
‘Chamberlaining’ has never worked.
Should just cancel the whole dinner. This is not normal times anyways.
Courtiers.
Seth Meyers’ jokes at Trump’s expense during the 2011 White House Correspondents dinner have been identified by those close to Trump as the moment he decided to seriously run for President.
Seth Meyers made this problem, it’s up to him to fix it. Bonus points if he gets Trump to quit using only jokes.
Instead just one comedian, you get house full of clowns
I support that decision. What kind of jokes could a comedian make about all of this? About the resurgence of an autocratic state on the ruins of one of the first modern democracies?
Maybe a conservative, MAGA comedian could do it. But those don’t exist. Ask yourself why.
They exist. They’re just not recognized as comedians by those not in the cult because normal people don’t see kicking down as humor.
Tony Hinchcliffe
That dude is less funny than Trump himself.
Sure, just giving you a MAGA conservative comedian. He has a massive and loyal fan base regardless of either of our opinions on him.
If only George Carlin were still around. I bet he’d have a few words to say about all of this…
Bill Burr is probably the closest we’ve got today but his approach isn’t as sophisticated as Carlin’s was.
The best thing about Carlin was that it didn’t matter which party it was, he called them all out on their bullshit. Another one that was a good stand up comedian that we lost too early was Robin Williams. I remember him doing a movie where he played the president. It had a very “The Great Dictator” vibe to it.
Wasn’t it a correspondence dinner that is considered to be the day he decided to run for president because he was on the verge of tears being made fun of
Yup. He was roasted by Obama himself, in fact. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-campaign-obama-beef-election-b2639129.html
Little baby pee pee snowflakes
Tiny 🍄 can’t handle criticism of any kind
Absolute PUSSY.
Whoever downvoted, you’re wrong but at least you deprived me of literally nothing in the name of the biggest pussy on the planet. There is not a chance in hell that this was handed down by the board, this was handed down by a man who can’t take a fucking joke even when he is (MAYBE) the most powerful man on the planet, that is the definition of a giant PUSSY.
Cancel the entire dinner.
It’s probably going to be cold hamberders again anyway.
Pussies.
