Political analyst Mark Halperin criticized the White House Correspondent Association (WHCA) on Monday after failing to admit that comedian Amber Ruffin’s reservation was a major mistake in the announcement that he would no longer perform at the association’s annual dinner on April 26th.
“[T]His WHCA board has unanimously decided that he will not showcase his comedy performance again this year,” President Eugene Daniels said. announcement In an email to the White House Press Corps on March 29, he added that it was an effort to avoid focusing on “the politics of division.” Halperin, “Morning meetingThe WHCA announcement allegedly omitted the admission of fraud when hiring a comedian who has a record of being an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump. (Related: “I’m Honest”: Jasmine Crockett admits she’s focused on fighting Trump actually Laws given)
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WHCA dinners charge themselves as nonpartisan, but Ruffin It was criticized In an interview with LGBT-Interest magazine Advocate, Trump praised former Vice President Kamala Harris a few weeks before the 2024 election. For example, she called Trump “general president.”
Ruffin also told CNN host Jake Tupper in February that he didn’t want to attend dinner with the president.
“The White House Correspondents Head… Eugene Daniels, formerly of NBC’s Politico, announced that he was chasing away Amber Ruffin, who was hired to become a comedian,” Halperin said. “She’s an anti-trump. They tried to make her more neutral with her comedy. She declined, so they x her.”
“They didn’t challenge their original crime when announcing their decision. They shouldn’t have hired her in the first place,” he continued. “It’s a big mistake, and they haven’t tried it, and press coverage doesn’t take that into consideration.
Tupper also asked Ruffin if any of the past WHCA dinner hosts advised her how to handle the opportunity.
“They also said you have to tease everyone. You can’t tease people you don’t agree with, you have to spread it evenly. And I’m not going to do that,” laughed Ruffin. “Maybe I’ll do a bit of that, probably not.”
The move to cancel Ruffin’s performance will name the comedian on February 4th Daniels’s February headliner for dinner.
“Amber was at the top of my list when I started thinking about what a celebrity would be for this year’s dinner,” Daniels told the Daily Callenor in February.
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