White House Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich called Amber Ruffin a ‘garbage, hate-filled comedian’
    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      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.

  • Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee
    25·
    3 days ago

    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.”

  • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
    50·
    3 days ago

    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.

  • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
    30·
    3 days ago

    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.

  • LupusBlackfur@lemmy.world
    54·
    3 days ago

    Once again demonstrating their collective cowardice…

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

    🙄 🙄

  • zephorah@lemm.ee
    41·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
      9·
      3 days ago

      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

      • zephorah@lemm.ee
        5·
        3 days ago

        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.