White House Correspondents’ Dinner axes comedy slot after Trump admin pressure

Evil can't stand to be laughed at.

It’s quite possibly the reason he ran in the first place lol
- He had run before that roast. But yeah i think it made him hate stand up, and reinforced his drive.
So fragile, they need to be treated very gently
“The devil... the prowde spirite... cannot endure to be mocked.”
Thomas Moore
- Meanwhile, the actual devil (Lucifer) couldn't give to shits about being mocked lol.
  If he were real of course.

Once again demonstrating their collective cowardice…

Obeying in advance. Can’t risk upsetting Don Mangolini. The Mafia Bully Admin wins again.

🙄 🙄

They should have canceled the entire "White House Correspondents' Dinner" and simply held a completely new event at the exact same time at the same venue with a different name, and kept the jokes at the president's expense.

It's not White House's Correspondents' Dinner. It's White House Correspondents' Dinner.
The Correspondents organize it. It's hosted in a Hilton hotel, not at the White house. The White House doesn't control it in any way. This is simply the press rolling over to appease the fascists because they are scared of losing access.
- They should hold it at the Four Seasons.

This vibe, for lack of a better word, is more important than some may think. Having an official role for poking fun at the government once a year reinforces Democracy and 1A. This is an act that signals to everyone just how ok it is to point out flaws and say what you like about the federal government and the people in it, including the president. To remove the comedy element states the opposite.

I don't know if there's a word or phrase for this but it is funny how you're saying the dinner is important to show that in democracy leadership can take it on the chin. But in this case, this administration is wrecking democracy and can't handle the correspondence dinner. It's cool to see how that works in real time
Exactly as intended
An official demonstration of Freedom of Press?
- It’s more than that. Every year the president sits down in public to be roasted. Maybe it’s lighter and more formal than Reddit, but it’s still a roast. Sitting in a chair for it at an event is much more pointed than passing headlines or essays.

he never got over obama roasting him. in anycase, conservatives never could understand how comedy works, because all they do is know how to punch down, and it often comes from bigotry and hateful sources.

That's completely accurate.
He loves to dish out insults but can't handle it being done to him even in jest. What a strong man.
I blame Obama 100% for Trump running. He just couldn’t fucking help himself.

Jon Stewart, et al, should host a competing event.

Comedy has been banned everyone, time to wrap it up.

Didn't musk make some inane comment about comedy being illegal cause he couldn't say slurs or transphobic shit at some point?
I mean not banned, but the standards have to be improved.
Relevant video.

Bunch of wussies can’t laugh at themselves. The collective narcissism is astounding

Because somewhere in their deep recesses, they know just exactly who/what they really are...
So, when it's pointed out to them, it's not funny, it's not making fun.
It's truth. It's a reminder.

Surely this will not go over well with President Elon "Free Speech Absolutist" Musk, right? RIGHT???

Elon Musk (after buying Twitter): "Comedy is now legal."

Elon Musk: "[the] Left found nothing funny, wanted to make comedy illegal."

Trump tried to get DOJ to go after Saturday Night Live for mocking him

"As president, Trump briefly attempted to get Justice officials to twist campaign finance laws and the federal equal-time rule to declare that anti-Trump material broadcast by Saturday Night Live, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and others was somehow illegal," the publication writes.

"During his 2024 campaign, according to a source with direct knowledge, Trump has raised this topic again, venting about the need to punish late-night comedians for giving “illegal” campaign contributions to the Democratic Party — in the form of jokes and on-air satire."

While career officials at the DOJ ignored these orders from Trump during his first term, the publication notes that they could actually become a reality should Trump win a second term given how much his allies have worked to weed out anyone who might be disloyal to his agenda.

“There are no guardrails,” Yale scholar Jason Stanley told Rolling Stone of Trump. “He already has control of any institutions that might stop him.”

Coward press. Have the comedy but not the president.

I think that's what they did during his first term, right? I remember him skipping the event altogether.

Thin-skinned bitches

Ah, who are the snowflakes again?? Got to suppress criticism, especially if it is funny.

Much like reality, comedy has a well-known liberal bias.

how about we just axe the white house correspondent entirely since they a) won't stand up for their colleagues and b) won't stand up to this administration or else they lose access.

the primary reason I stopped watching cable news since the election is the press being less than limp, weak, and feckless when it comes to anything dealing with republicans but somehow find their spines when a democrat is involved.

Snowflakes.

If I didn't know better I'd say the White House was filled with a bunch of thin skinned cry babies. /s

Weird Snowflakes
I'm pretty sure that's how this all started... https://youtu.be/k8TwRmX6zs4
- Pretty sure it has t stopped, neither.

Amber Ruffin is a fucking national treasure.

The American Have I Got News For You is actually awesome IMO.
- Totally agree. Needs more viewers though.

Wittle baby doesn't want the meany-weany comedian to hurt is fee-fees while he destroys the country.

Trump doesn't even know what joy is, he can only laugh at cruelty.

Wut happun? I thought elon made comedy legal again. 🤭

The press is feeble. Fucking cowards.

The amazing thing to me is that they can continuously do shit like this, and yet there will always be "normies" (and even some in the comedy industry themselves) whining about how the left is ruining comedy blah blah...

It's just insane the automatic benefit of the doubt that the right gets on every fucking issue.

It's always projection with these assholes. fElon whined about "free speech" and now wants the government to come down on people that insult him or his shitty cars. fElon and lots of other RW assholes whined that comedy wasn't legal, was getting people "cancelled" and now...they are literally cancelling comedy.

So fucking pathetic. But hey, hard to expect corporate media to stand up for the people. You basically have the fascist media and the "both sides" media.

It's very concerning that the White House Correspondent's Dinner would succumb to White House pressure. Now we see how theyll respond when HitlerPig demands they suppress his scandals.

These imperial stenographers have always supported fascism.

Bring Obama to just roast his ass for an hour instead. Not much else could get under his skin like that, unless you also get some Trump women to fawn over him the whole time.

Snowflakes

Who sees what is happening in the white house and wants to crack jokes?

For the next four years, the Correspondent's Dinner should be a wake, and not an Irish one.

Fascists can't be argued with. They love when you get angry and yell at them. But they absolutely cannot stand to get laughed at. Go look up some quotes from Mel Brooks about why he thought it was important for the Hitler references in The Producers.
We should be doing a monthly nationally televised event where Trump, Musk, and the rest are ridiculed.
- Certainly. I agree completely.
  The correspondent's dinner isn't the proper venue for that.
  The correspondent's dinner is, in part, a comedy roast of the president and his administration. The guests are overtly praising and honoring the roasted. They are laughing with the guest of honor, not at him.
  We should absolutely ridicule Trump, Musk, and the rest, mercilessly. But none of them deserve the honor of a roast.

Too bad. Trevor Noah's gig was unforgettable.

I think the best one ever was Stephen Colbert. Followed by Seth Meyers, I think. But Colbert's was just so...perfect. You could tell it was great because the Beltway class was harumphing about it in the aftermath.