White House Correspondents’ Association cancels plans to have a comedian headline annual dinner
White House Correspondents’ Association cancels plans to have a comedian headline annual dinner
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.
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.
Avoid political division
I mean, the line between parties is now just Anti-fascists | Fascists (Centrists are here as well. Silence is complicity.)
We even got an operational Gestapo
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/29/us/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-university-arrest-saturday/index.html
Centrists are weak, feckless cowards who shift their position to accommodate each side. Pick a lane, assholes. We have a humanity to save.
You're either with us or you're against us, right?
It's authoritarians (fascists, progressives) vs. Political moderates (liberals, centrists). Just because the authoritarians are in two camps doesn't make one good.
Man what? Your Democrat party is basically right wing for the rest of the west. Are you saying every other countries’ left leaning parties are authoritarian? Canada’s Liberal party would be more progressive than the Democratic Party and they’re not even our most progressive party…
What you’re saying is the most ignorant, America-brained political take I’ve seen recently
Anyone who can look at what's happening right now and say "BUT PROGRESSIVES ARE JUST AS BAD" is either a fascist or a useful idiot for the fascists.
I’ll have what you’re smoking
...seeking to avoid political division.
Yes, because Trump's platform is unity.
That’s them being diplomatic. The truth is that they’re intimidated. Their speech is being chilled.
If you think of "unity" like the Nazis think about it, then yes.
BTW, that's how they have been describing it to others online for over a decade, too...if people they describe as "Communist" which means, in the Venn diagram, anyone who is !Nazi = "Communist", would just agree to stop fighting fascists, there will be unity. Also, "peace". Interestingly, it's how one of the magoffs that worked on/supports Project 2025 talked about their plans, too. Oh, and Putin talks the same way.
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
Should just cancel the whole dinner. This is not normal times anyways.
Trump has no sense of humor. The only reason he ever smiles and laughs is when he knows he's getting something over on somebody.
It's not a shocker that he couldn't even handle the mildest of criticisms from a comedian.
The lizard suit wasn't even designed to do that, but he's such a great man he made it happen anyway.
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.
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.
Spineless preemptively compliant cowards.
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.
Remember when they had Stephen Colbert roast GW during the dinner? That was peak comedy. These guys are such losers they know Trump won't be able to handle being roasted, and somehow that's OK for a world leader.
Remember when they had Stephen Colbert roast GW during the dinner? That was peak comedy.
The best part is that they only invited Colbert because they didn't realize his character on The Colbert Report was a parody of right-wing pundits.
The amount of people who didn't understand Colbert was performing satire was terrifying
I don't think he ever went to the dinners during his term.
Look up 2006 white house correspondents dinner on YouTube
Little baby pee pee snowflakes
The news media is not supposed to be friendly with those in power, no matter who is in power. They're supposed to be a pain in the ass of the president (every president). They're supposed to be the Fourth Estate! They're supposed to be part of the checks and balances. It's always irked me that they do this correspondent's dinner and get all buddy buddy with the Whitehouse.
Yeah, the whole thing is a just an embarrassing demonstration of how it's just a big social club rather than a relationship where they should be naturally antagonistic.
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.
So fragile
Cancel the entire dinner.
It's probably going to be cold hamberders again anyway.
Pussies.
Cowards.
Courtiers.
That's because nothing is funny anymore
People call Republicans stupid, but it looks like they may have finally learned a lesson after Naomi Wolf's headliner in 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8IYPnnsYJw
Michelle Wolf, not Naomi Wolf. Naomi Wolf is a right-wing conspiracy nut these days.
Ah damn, oops. You're right, I wrote the wrong name even after fetching the Youtube link lol