Summary
The White House Correspondents’ Association canceled comedian Amber Ruffin’s headlining appearance at its annual fundraising dinner.
The decision follows concerns over Ruffin’s anti-Trump comments and growing tensions with the Trump White House, which has restricted press access and pool assignments.
The association’s board voted unanimously for the change, seeking to avoid political division.
This shift mirrors its 2019 approach, when historian Ron Chernow spoke instead of a comedian amid similar Trump-era scrutiny.
Lmao “seeking to avoid political division”. No you’re avoiding dissonance. The GOP MO is to stoke political division, it’s literally what gives them power.
Also “anti-trump” comments instead of just calling them concerns or critiques.
Language like this is how consent is manufacturered. Language is powerful at subtly shift how one percieves a situation, and leading people to a predetermined conclusion.
Cowards.
Remember when they had Stephen Colbert roast GW during the dinner? That was peak comedy. These guys are such losers they know Trump won’t be able to handle being roasted, and somehow that’s OK for a world leader.
Remember when they had Stephen Colbert roast GW during the dinner? That was peak comedy.
The best part is that they only invited Colbert because they didn’t realize his character on The Colbert Report was a parody of right-wing pundits.
The amount of people who didn’t understand Colbert was performing satire was terrifying
I don’t think he ever went to the dinners during his term.
Look up 2006 white house correspondents dinner on YouTube
Once again demonstrating their collective cowardice…
Obeying in advance. Can’t risk upsetting Don Mangolini. The Mafia Admin wins again.
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Seeking to avoid political division… through appeasement? Has that ever been effective? The press truly has abandoned their responsibility.
‘Chamberlaining’ has never worked.
I’ve heard persuasive arguments that Chamberlain did the only thing possible for Britain at the time. Their defense industry was just spinning up and they needed more time to have any chance at facing Germany. The Spitfire had only just started production, for example.
Germany’s military industry was also trash at the time. Buying time for Britain’s defence also bought time for Germany’s offence.
If France, Britain, etc did something sooner rather than later a lot of bloodshed would have been avoided.
The World At War is an incredible documentary that covers it quite well.
“Since the French spurned any notion of taking the offensive, the Maginot Line ironically protected Germany better than it protected France.” Narrator, 8:10
“A few French divisions advanced 5 miles. But they didn’t even try to penetrate the Siegfried Line, at that time still unfinished. And while Poland fought on, there were no German tanks at all on the Western Front.” Narrator, 12:40
“If ze French Army would have attacked in beginning of September wiz zere very strong superiority in division in armoured cars well act all armoured cars in ze Western Front at zat time. In artillery, in air force, we ze German forces in the so called Western Front could stand no more than 1 or 2 weeks.” General Siegfried Westphal, Staff Officer Western Front, 14:05
At the start of the second world war, Germany was much less mechanized than other countries. I think the US had one car for every five people, the UK one car for every 10 people, France won car for every 15 people, and Germany one car for every 30 people. Something like that.
The Germans used more horses in World War II than they did in World War I.
The thing was, what they did have they used effectively, including using radios for communications, which none of the other countries were doing at the time.
Courtiers.
Should just cancel the whole dinner. This is not normal times anyways.
Seth Meyers’ jokes at Trump’s expense during the 2011 White House Correspondents dinner have been identified by those close to Trump as the moment he decided to seriously run for President.
Seth Meyers made this problem, it’s up to him to fix it. Bonus points if he gets Trump to quit using only jokes.
Avoid political division
I mean, the line between parties is now just Anti-fascists | Fascists (Centrists are here as well. Silence is complicity.)
We even got an operational Gestapo
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/29/us/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-university-arrest-saturday/index.html
Centrists are weak, feckless cowards who shift their position to accommodate each side. Pick a lane, assholes. We have a humanity to save.
You’re either with us or you’re against us, right?
It’s authoritarians (fascists, progressives) vs. Political moderates (liberals, centrists). Just because the authoritarians are in two camps doesn’t make one good.
Man what? Your Democrat party is basically right wing for the rest of the west. Are you saying every other countries’ left leaning parties are authoritarian? Canada’s Liberal party would be more progressive than the Democratic Party and they’re not even our most progressive party…
What you’re saying is the most ignorant, America-brained political take I’ve seen recently
I’m using hyperbole to mock the “centrists are fascists” mentality rampant in these parts of the Fediverse. The Republican party from the 1980s wasn’t even fascist.
For sure and I wouldn’t call 1980s centrists fascists but at this point the US Overton window has shifted so far to the right that it’s hard to forgive anyone still in the middle. Like you have one party that’s brought on a billionaire to dismantle the government, threatening annexation of a number of sovereign nations, detaining people (not even convicted of any crimes) in brutal, torturous ways, and a million other horrid things; and then you have the other party that just kind of wants to keep things the status-quo.
If the former party is fascism and the latter is (sane) liberal conservatism, what would you call someone in the centre of that? Looking in from outside the US, I don’t see much of a difference between proponents of the fascism and the centrists. Like if I hear someone “in the centre” say “hmm well maybe Trump is right, we should invade Canada/Greenland/Panama”, I’m going to rightfully call them a fascist.
Important note: I wouldn’t say this applies to other countries where the Overton window isn’t so insanely far to the right
I would say the centrists are the Republicans who left the party over Trump, and the right-leqning Democrats. They exist. And they’re not fascists.
the centrists are the Republicans who left the party over Trump, and the right-leqning Democrats
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They’re centrists! They’re bang in the middle between pretty far right and very far right!
Anyone who can look at what’s happening right now and say “BUT PROGRESSIVES ARE JUST AS BAD” is either a fascist or a useful idiot for the fascists.
I’ll have what you’re smoking
…seeking to avoid political division.
Yes, because Trump’s platform is unity.
That’s them being diplomatic. The truth is that they’re intimidated. Their speech is being chilled.
If you think of “unity” like the Nazis think about it, then yes.
BTW, that’s how they have been describing it to others online for over a decade, too…if people they describe as “Communist” which means, in the Venn diagram, anyone who is !Nazi = “Communist”, would just agree to stop fighting fascists, there will be unity. Also, “peace”. Interestingly, it’s how one of the magoffs that worked on/supports Project 2025 talked about their plans, too. Oh, and Putin talks the same way.
Instead just one comedian, you get house full of clowns
I support that decision. What kind of jokes could a comedian make about all of this? About the resurgence of an autocratic state on the ruins of one of the first modern democracies?
Maybe a conservative, MAGA comedian could do it. But those don’t exist. Ask yourself why.
They exist. They’re just not recognized as comedians by those not in the cult because normal people don’t see kicking down as humor.
Tony Hinchcliffe
That dude is less funny than Trump himself.
Sure, just giving you a MAGA conservative comedian. He has a massive and loyal fan base regardless of either of our opinions on him.
If only George Carlin were still around. I bet he’d have a few words to say about all of this…
Bill Burr is probably the closest we’ve got today but his approach isn’t as sophisticated as Carlin’s was.
The best thing about Carlin was that it didn’t matter which party it was, he called them all out on their bullshit. Another one that was a good stand up comedian that we lost too early was Robin Williams. I remember him doing a movie where he played the president. It had a very “The Great Dictator” vibe to it.
Little baby pee pee snowflakes
Wasn’t it a correspondence dinner that is considered to be the day he decided to run for president because he was on the verge of tears being made fun of
Yup. He was roasted by Obama himself, in fact. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-campaign-obama-beef-election-b2639129.html
Spineless preemptively compliant cowards.
