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.
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.
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.
I’ll have what you’re smoking
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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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.
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
…seeking to avoid political division.
Yes, because Trump’s platform is unity.
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.
Trump has no sense of humor. The only reason he ever smiles and laughs is when he knows he’s getting something over on somebody.
It’s not a shocker that he couldn’t even handle the mildest of criticisms from a comedian.
Instead just one comedian, you get house full of clowns
So fragile
Tiny 🍄 can’t handle criticism of any kind
The news media is not supposed to be friendly with those in power, no matter who is in power. They’re supposed to be a pain in the ass of the president (every president). They’re supposed to be the Fourth Estate! They’re supposed to be part of the checks and balances. It’s always irked me that they do this correspondent’s dinner and get all buddy buddy with the Whitehouse.
Yeah, the whole thing is a just an embarrassing demonstration of how it’s just a big social club rather than a relationship where they should be naturally antagonistic.
Absolute PUSSY.
Pussies.
Cancel the entire dinner.
That’s because nothing is funny anymore
People call Republicans stupid, but it looks like they may have finally learned a lesson after Naomi Wolf’s headliner in 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8IYPnnsYJw
