Comedian Michelle Wolf on Trump at White House Correspondents’ Dinner

This video from the USA says about itself:

White House Correspondents’ Dinner: Michelle Wolf FULL monologue

28 April 2018

Warning: The following video contains graphic langauge.

Comedian Michelle Wolf didn’t hold back in slaying president Donald Trump over the Stormy Daniels affair, his wealth, and his administration including Mike Pence and Sarah Sanders in her monologue.

From daily The Independent in Britain today:

White House Correspondents’ Dinner: Conservatives walk out as Michelle Wolf brutally ridicules Trump and aides

Comedian refuses to hold back while attacking president, his press secretary and daughter

by Colin Drury

“Good evening, here we are at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner”, she greeted guests at Saturday’s prestigious media dinner in Washington. “Like a porn star says when she’s about to have sex with Trump, let’s get this over with.”

It got more risqué – and more brutal – from there.

The annual black tie even – held for 3,000 members of the US media and government – is known for post-dinner comedians who mock the administration.

But Wolf’s routine, which ripped into senior White House staff – including a visibly uncomfortable Sarah Huckabee Sanders – drew audible gasps. Several people walked out. Former press secretary Sean Spicer took to Twitter to call the performance a “disgrace”.

Donald Trump himself had boycotted the dinner for a second year running, opting, instead, to hold a campaign-style rally in Michigan – a fact which Wolf did not let lie.

“I would drag him here myself, but it turns out that the president of the United States is the one pussy you’re not allowed to grab,” she said at one point, referring to his recorded comments on the infamous Access Hollywood tapes.

Her fire was also turned on current press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders who remained looking on throughout (“she burns facts”, said Wolf, “and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smokey eye – like maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s lies. It’s probably lies”) and Mr Trump’s daughter and senior advisor Ivanka. “She cleans up nice”, the 32-year-old comedian said. “She’s the diaper genie of the administration. On the outside she looks sleek, but the inside, it’s still full of shit.”

And she refused to ignore some of America’s most enduringly controversial subjects.

On Mr Trump’s plans to arm teachers: “He wants to give teachers guns, and I support that because then they can sell them for things they need like supplies.”

And on abortion: “Don’t knock it till you try it. And when you do try it, really knock it, you gotta get that baby out of there. And yeah, sure, you can groan all you want, I know a lot of you are very anti-abortion, unless it’s the one you got for your secret mistress.”

Footage broadcast on Fox News appeared to show the routine being met with both occasional laughter and occasional awkward silence. As one joke bombed, Wolf – famously alternative in her approach – declared: “Yeah, shoulda done more research before you got me to do this.”

As the barbs showed no sign of letting up, presidential assistant Mercedes Schlapp walked out during the performance. She later tweeted: “Completely appalled by the so called and twisted comedian at the #WHCA dinner.” She added such shows were “why America hates the out of touch leftist media elite”.

Maggie Haberman, White House correspondent with the New York Times, also appeared unhappy about the ridiculing of Ms Sanders.

“That @PressSec sat and absorbed intense criticism of her physical appearance, her job performance, and so forth, instead of walking out, on national television, was impressive”, she said.

The dinner once attracted Oscar winners and other notable performers in film and television as well as celebrities in sports and other high-profile professions. That star power dimmed last year when the famously thin-skinned Mr Trump, who routinely slams Washington’s media, announced he would not attend. He was the first president to skip the event since Ronald Reagan in 1981.

Wolf smacks down @maggieNYT: https://t.co/2AhYoSnjjg

— Raw Story (@RawStory) April 29, 2018

And then they called liberals "snowflakes."https://t.co/mdbhJagAMM

— Crooks and Liars (@crooksandliars) April 29, 2018

‘AN EMBARRASSMENT’ Donald Trump slammed the White House Correspondents’ dinner as “an embarrassment” and called for the event to be put to “rest.” Comedian Michelle Wolf’s Saturday set sparked criticism, particularly over her jibes at White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Pundit Ana Navarro was quick to slap down conservative critics as “snowflakes,” and Eric Trump gave the comedian an unexpected endorsement on Twitter. Here are the 15 boldest moments from Wolf’s speech. [HuffPost]

Maybe if they book a toadying Fox News host, Trump will attend the WHCA next year.https://t.co/jTI0QfUZUM

— Crooks and Liars (@crooksandliars) April 29, 2018