Michelle Wolf didn’t mince words as she responded to news that the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner will not be hosted by a comic.
President Donald Trump might have skipped the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last year, when comedian Michelle Wolf was the featured entertainment. And in the wake of her controversial performance, the event’s organizers have made a big change.
In a release posted to Twitter Monday morning, the White House Correspondents’ Association announced author and historian Ron Chernow as the speaker for the annual event set for April 2019. And although the organization’s president Olivier Knox (who, full disclosure, previously worked for Yahoo News) made mention of the expectation that Chernow discuss the “importance of a free and independent news media,” many are arguing that this choice is an example of the exact opposite.
Already people are praising Wolf’s tweet for speaking “truth to power” at the past dinner, and likely making the administration worried about putting another entertainer on stage.
Others are happy about the change, saying that a historian is the perfect person to present the irony between the current administration and America’s values. Some have even pointed out that Wolf’s comment about the media being “complicit” is just adding to Trump’s attack of the press.
Still, some people are holding out hope that Chernow can maintain the tradition of satirical entertainment that the dinner has featured for decades.
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