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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 09:15 AM Apr 2018

UPDATE: Trump Continues Assault on 'Disaster' WHCD: 'The Filthy Comedian Totally Bombed'

Source: Mediate



by Aidan McLaughlin | 8:59 am, April 30th, 2018

UPDATE 04/30: Trump is continuing his attacks on the White House Correspondents Dinner, tweeting Monday morning during an airing of Fox & Friends that the event “is DEAD as we know it.”




President Donald Trump apparently couldn’t wait until Monday morning’s episode of Fox & Friends to express his outrage at the White House Correspondents Dinner monologue, delivered with acerbic disdain by comedian Michelle Wolf.

The speech, in which Wolf brutally lampooned Sarah Huckabee Sanders for her dishonesty as the White House press secretary sat feet away on the dais, received rebukes from many members of the media who attended the dinner.

Trump, who skipped the dinner again this year, did not watch it on his massive television screen. Instead, he delivered one of his trademark rallies in Michigan, in which he took time to bash the dinner thrown by the White House Correspondents Association as “phony.”

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-rips-whcd-with-seth-meyers-comparison-the-filthy-comedian-totally-bombed/
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UPDATE: Trump Continues Assault on 'Disaster' WHCD: 'The Filthy Comedian Totally Bombed' (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2018 OP
The online army of trolls is out to attack Michelle Wolf too bucolic_frolic Apr 2018 #1
Well it must have pissed you off, because just like your time in the draft to go to war turbinetree Apr 2018 #2
Doesn't this man have a real job to do? Freethinker65 Apr 2018 #3
Michelle Wolf is a true patriot. greatlaurel Apr 2018 #4
But everything she said was true... TranssexualKaren Apr 2018 #5
Absolutely Zambero Apr 2018 #7
I am paraphrasing Alec Baldwin TranssexualKaren Apr 2018 #8
The sad trombone sound effect? Jedi Guy Apr 2018 #17
Have Wily E Coyote get........ WhiteTara Apr 2018 #20
Crossing a line Zambero Apr 2018 #6
2017 Headliner Hasan Minhaj (remember him?) yallerdawg Apr 2018 #9
Snowflake... HopeAgain Apr 2018 #10
It was a great piece of comedy duforsure Apr 2018 #11
Trump proves Turbineguy Apr 2018 #12
Trump lacks a sense of humor Gothmog Apr 2018 #13
Filthy pee tape truthisfreedom Apr 2018 #14
Trump LOVES filthy humor...just look up the ekelly Apr 2018 #15
Any comic that doesn't make politicians christx30 Apr 2018 #16
It wouldn't have mattered who appeared or what they said... The OUTRAGE was preordained. Hugin Apr 2018 #18
It's funny only because the Trump cultists love their dear leader Blue_Tires Apr 2018 #19

bucolic_frolic

(43,305 posts)
1. The online army of trolls is out to attack Michelle Wolf too
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 09:18 AM
Apr 2018

even on DU

They don't appreciate good art or satire, and can't take a joke

turbinetree

(24,720 posts)
2. Well it must have pissed you off, because just like your time in the draft to go to war
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 09:22 AM
Apr 2018

you fucking never showed up.....................chickenshit

You know what we use to call assholes like you trump plastic, you are nothing more than a fake.

So Fuck you............................and your fucking deplorables................ ............... there just as fake as you are.......................................



Fucking November 2018 cannot get here fast enough..............

Freethinker65

(10,057 posts)
3. Doesn't this man have a real job to do?
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 09:29 AM
Apr 2018

Destroying the press is crucial to his overall agenda I suppose. This is not about the comedian. This is about making the WH press correspondents effectively take a loyalty oath to him and giving him whatever he desires...and it looks like he just might get it...or at least get a divided press corps- those concerned with asking tough questions and gathering facts willing to get called out and battered by Trump on Twitter and at his ego boosting rallies, and those willing to go along for the easy ride.

greatlaurel

(2,004 posts)
4. Michelle Wolf is a true patriot.
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 09:30 AM
Apr 2018

The collaborators in the news media who are criticizing her are demonstrating their values. They are more interested in keeping their cushy jobs and "access" than telling the American people the truth.

Mika and Maggie should apologize for all their efforts in creating the monster, along with many of their male collaborator/colleagues in propping up the illegal Trump regime.

Zambero

(8,971 posts)
7. Absolutely
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 09:39 AM
Apr 2018

An unprecedented meeting of parody and reality, with very little wiggle room left in between. At the same time, alternative "facts" as once described by Kellyanne Conway are there on the side for anyone willing enough to digest them.

TranssexualKaren

(364 posts)
8. I am paraphrasing Alec Baldwin
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 09:47 AM
Apr 2018

Last year he expressed doubt that he would still be doing his Trump impression by September....”If he’s still president it won’t seam funny anymore”

How do you make a train wreck funny?

Jedi Guy

(3,257 posts)
17. The sad trombone sound effect?
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 01:37 PM
Apr 2018

Other than that, I got nothin'.

Less flippantly, this (mis)administration would be funny if only it weren't real and causing so much damage and chaos.

Zambero

(8,971 posts)
6. Crossing a line
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 09:34 AM
Apr 2018

Any line that might have been crossed at WHCD had already been eradicated by Trump, so essentially there was no longer any line to cross. The daily twitter meltdowns, dog-whistling, juvenile name-calling, false accusations, fabrications, threats of incarceration, vulgarities, and wanton displays of ignorance have been witnessed and endured by billions world-wide. Consequently, his bad behavior and the resulting blowback and are now embedded in our public discourse. It doesn't matter one iota that Trump can't take it after dishing it out. He's reaping what he has already sown.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
9. 2017 Headliner Hasan Minhaj (remember him?)
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 09:48 AM
Apr 2018
"Do I come up here and just try to fit in and not ruffle any feathers? Or, do I say how I really feel because this event is about celebrating the first amendment and free speech? Free speech is the foundation of an open and liberal democracy... Only in America can a first generation Indian-American Muslim kid get on this stage and make fun of the President. The orange man behind the Muslim ban. And it's a sign to the rest of the world, it's this amazing tradition that shows the entire world that even the president is not beyond the reach of the first amendment.

"But the president didn't show up. Because Donald Trump doesn't care about free speech. The man who tweets everything that enters his head refuses to acknowledge the amendment that allows him to do it. Think about it."

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
11. It was a great piece of comedy
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 10:43 AM
Apr 2018

And she needs her own show opposite rossanne's. You know it was good because of their fake outrage. Ms. Wolf needs a show now displaying her political opinions like others are now doing to the Democrats.

ekelly

(421 posts)
15. Trump LOVES filthy humor...just look up the
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 01:03 PM
Apr 2018

Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump. Melania and Ivanka were in the audience too. Trump had a great time!

christx30

(6,241 posts)
16. Any comic that doesn't make politicians
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 01:30 PM
Apr 2018

squirm in their seats isn’t doing his or her job. I saw some squirming and uncomfortable people.
Hats off to Ms. Wolf.

Hugin

(33,207 posts)
18. It wouldn't have mattered who appeared or what they said... The OUTRAGE was preordained.
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 01:52 PM
Apr 2018

Agent Orange is overplaying his hand on this after skipping them both.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
19. It's funny only because the Trump cultists love their dear leader
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 02:24 PM
Apr 2018

because he supposedly "tells it like it is"...

But when a comedian does it, they want to put her on the electric chair...

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