“Good evening. Here we are, the White House Correspondents’ Dinner,” comedian Michelle Wolf said as she opened her gig as this year’s event host in Washington D.C. “Like a porn star says when she’s about to have sex with a Trump, let’s get this over with.”
“Yup, kiddos, this is who you’re getting tonight,” the former Daily Show writer continued. “I’m going to skip a lot of the normal pleasantries. We’re at a Hilton; it’s not nice. This is on C-SPAN; no one watches that. Trump is President; it’s not ideal.”
Unlike the White House Correspondents’ Dinner during the Obama Administration, which was usually a fairly chill, fun night with A-listers, Washington, D.C. elite, and the President himself in attendance, the Trump administration’s have been notably different. For one, President Trump doesn’t attend. And there’s been a shift in mood, too: The vibe of the room these past two years has also seemed a little more tense.
The annual dinner is usually full of good-natured roasts of players in the current Administration—no matter who’s in charge—but this year took the burns up to the next degree. Wolf’s jokes were sharply pointed and met at times with awkward, uncomfortable chuckles from those in attendance (although there were laughs as well). Read on for a round-up of Wolf’s 11 most brutal zingers:
On Kellyanne Conway:
“She has the perfect last name for what she does: ‘Con-way’ … You guys have got to stop putting Kellyanne on your shows. All she does is lie. If you don’t give her a platform, she has nowhere to lie. It’s like that old saying, if a tree falls in the woods, how do we get Kellyanne under that tree? I’m not suggesting she gets hurt. Just stuck. Stuck under a tree.”
On Ivanka Trump:
“There’s also, of course, Ivanka. She was supposed to be an advocate for women, but it turns out she’s about as helpful to women as an empty box of tampons. She’s done nothing to satisfy women. So, I guess like father, like daughter.”
On being a woman:
“It’s 2018, and I’m a woman, so you cannot shut me up. Unless you have Michael Cohen wire me $130,000.”
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