Michelle Wolf has some tough words for the White House Correspondents’ Association.
The comedian — whose 2018 set at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner the journalistic group famously disavowed — is friends and former “Late Night With Seth Meyers” writers’ room colleagues with Amber Ruffin. This year, the Correspondents’ Association dropped Ruffin as the headliner for its April 26 dinner pre-emptively, stating that no comedian would perform in order “to ensure the focus is not on the politics of division.” The move was taken as a sign of the pressure that comedians and professional organizations face under an emboldened second-term President Donald Trump.
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