The White House Correspondents Association canceled their comedian this year in favor of a speech on the First Amendment.
Notoriously thin-skinned Donald Trump, who skipped out on last year’s roasting, responded by teasing he may attend this time.
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He won’t. This is the tiny lie for Trump, but come on. He has no intention of sitting and listening to a historian talk for half an hour.
The POTUS also saw the opportunity to attack a woman and couldn’t pass it up, slamming comedian Michelle Wolf:
So-called comedian Michelle Wolf bombed so badly last year at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner that this year, for the first time in decades, they will have an author instead of a comedian. Good first step in comeback of a dying evening and tradition! Maybe I will go?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 21, 2018
So the comic did what she does best. She burned him beyond recognition.
I bet you'd be on my side if I had killed a journalist. #BeBest https://t.co/bZ91Cg0QCr
— Michelle Wolf (@michelleisawolf) November 21, 2018
DAYUM!
In case you haven’t been following the news, the CIA determined the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia had ordered the assassination and dismemberment of Washington Post journalist and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi.
Trump’s response had been evasive until yesterday when he said outright he stands with Saudi Arabia.
Because… America First?
When challenged on why the United States would let a foreign leader get away with murdering one of their residents, he gave us an “it is what it is.”
Really.
Trump on the fallout over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi: "It's a shame, but it is what it is." (via ABC) pic.twitter.com/4bkzq2of0Y
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 20, 2018
So yeah, it’s a pretty cutting response.
And using Melania Trump‘s bizarre anti-bullying campaign slogan as the signoff coup-de-grace?
Savage!
We wonder if he’ll order the Justice Department to prosecute her now…
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