Trump Addresses Disastrous White House Correspondents' Dinner: '[It’s] Dead As We Know It'

The White House Correspondents' Academy released a statement apologizing for Michelle Wolf's performance.

Donald Trump can never let anything go. Not James Comey. Not Kathy Griffin. And not Saturday night’s White House Correspondents' dinner. “The White House Correspondents’ Dinner is DEAD as we know it,” he tweeted on Monday morning. “This was a total disaster and an embarrassment to our great Country and all that it stands for.”

The White House Correspondents’ Dinner is DEAD as we know it. This was a total disaster and an embarrassment to our great Country and all that it stands for. FAKE NEWS is alive and well and beautifully represented on Saturday night!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 30, 2018

Yeah, yeah. Plenty of people were upset by comedian Michelle Wolf’s controversial jokes and jabs at Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and the White House Correspondents’ Academy decided to side with critics, releasing an apologetic statement about Saturday night. "Last night's program was meant to offer a unifying message about our common commitment to a vigorous and free press while honoring civility, great reporting and scholarship winners, not to divide people," the statement read. "Unfortunately, the entertainer's monologue was not in the spirit of that mission."

#WHCA Statement to Members on Annual Dinner pic.twitter.com/8DKoHNxpNi

— WHCA (@whca) April 30, 2018

Some people wondered why the organization hired Wolf in the first place if they weren’t going to back her up.  

10 minutes into the @ComedyCentral rerun of @realDonaldTrump’s roast and it’s already infinitely funnier than the #WHCD — genuine comedy comes from a place of good-natured joy, even if it's tough.

The White House Correspondents Dinner has run its course. Time for it to end.

— Gregory T. Angelo (@gregorytangelo) April 30, 2018

Your dinner is a bad idea. It makes a mockery of the journalists and free press you’re trying to honor. It makes it look like the serious work reporters do is all just a silly game with politicians & reporters on the same side. This isn’t a game. Please put an end to the #WHCD.

— David Slack (@slack2thefuture) April 30, 2018

Others expressed similar sentiments to Trump. 

The behavior of the White House Correspondents Dinner invitees showcases much of what is wrong with journalism right now: Those performing selective outrage on behalf of Sarah Sanders are playing into "both sides" nonsense in order to preserve access. That's all there is to it.

— Lauren Duca (@laurenduca) April 30, 2018

Dear journalists,

Your foremost responsibility is to the citizenry. Preserving loyalty to anyone other than the American people, for access or any other reason, is unethical, and also not fucking journalism.

Good luck applying your eye makeup this morning.

xoxo,
democracy

— Lauren Duca (@laurenduca) April 30, 2018

However you feel about her performance on Saturday night, Wolf definitely garnered enough buzz for her forthcoming Netflix series The Break with Michelle Wolf, which comes out on May 27.   

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