Michelle Wolf's White House Correspondents' Dinner Jokes Infuriate the Media: 'Disgrace,' 'Cruel,' 'Unfunny'

Why are you guys making this about Sarah's looks? I said she burns facts and uses the ash to create a *perfect* smoky eye. I complimented her eye makeup and her ingenuity of materials. https://t.co/slII9TYdYx

@michelleisawolf

While Washington, Michigan, was a big success, Washington, D.C., just didn't work. Everyone is talking about the fact that the White House Correspondents Dinner was a very big, boring bust...the so-called comedian really “bombed.” @greggutfeld should host next year! @PeteHegseth

@realDonaldTrump

The WHCD was supposed to celebrate the 1st Amendment. Instead they celebrated bullying, vulgarity, and hate. They got all dressed up so they would look nicer when they had a hired gun savagely attack their guests. Do they really wonder why America has no respect for them? Sad!

@GovMikeHuckabee

Tonight's #WHCD was a disgrace

@seanspicer

Women who use their government positions to spread lies and misinformation deserve to face the same withering criticism as men. But leave our looks out of it. Watching from home, I hurt for Sarah, her husband and her children.

@morningmika

Watching a wife and mother be humiliated on national television for her looks is deplorable. I have experienced insults about my appearance from the president. All women have a duty to unite when these attacks happen and the WHCA owes Sarah an apology.

@morningmika

Michelle Wolf is about as funny as stomach cancer. My goodness.

@benshapiro

Hateful and unfunny.

Mocking a woman for her appearance? I guess that counts as woke now—just as long as she isn't progeessive. Or thin. https://t.co/FjgeIcc79J

@TerryMoran

Wolf's tasteless routine at the #WHCD is exactly why America hates the out-of-touch leftist media and Hollywood elites. That was disgusting, classless, and not even remotely funny. @PressSec, keep up the good work.

@GOPChairwoman

Couldn't agree more. So much important and amazing journalism this year — that should be the focus, when truth matters and is needed more than ever. It was an embarrassment in the room and surely to the audience at home. https://t.co/vhbnG6tn55

@jeffzeleny

Unfortunately, I don't think we advanced the cause of journalism tonight.

@peterbakernyt

If the #WHCD dinner did anything tonight, it made the chasm between journalists and those who don't trust us, even wider. And those of us based in the red states who work hard every day to prove our objectivity will have to deal with it.

@MegKinnardAP

The spirit of the event had always been jokes that singe but don't burn. Reporters who work with her daily appreciate that @presssec was there. https://t.co/PorH9jGJ7G

@KellyO

Michelle Wolf didn't fail just because she was (spectacularly) one-sided. It was because she was unnecessarily cruel on a night the WHCA was trying to showcase decency and purpose.

Undermined an otherwise meaningful night.

@kyledcheney

That @PressSec sat and absorbed intense criticism of her physical appearance, her job performance, and so forth, instead of walking out, on national television, was impressive.

@maggieNYT

Dear @PressSec - it took a lot of dignity, guts, and class to sit through what you did tonight. You personified professionalism. Thank you. pic.twitter.com/4XsjCx8DQB

@BradThor

Boy, am I glad I spent the evening with my kids and friends. This #WHCD “comedian” is a complete disgrace. The Left's intolerance and mean-spiritedness knows no bounds. https://t.co/fKSpDMGULT

@IngrahamAngle

I am glad I did not go to this dinner and I blame #WHCA for its bad manners as it knew this would happen w/ the comedian they hired - this is not humor. @margarettalev https://t.co/aWsn6QQIp8

@greta

#WHCD
What a disgrace!
A totally disrespectful “comedy” act. Degrading the office of POTUS then criticizing Press Sec Sanders physical appearance, more.

No wonder @realDonaldTrump chooses to be with real Americans instead of these self absorbed media fools. #MAGA 🇺🇸

@ericbolling

They call you liars. They call Mexicans rapists. They call Muslims murderers. They support white supremacists. But someone calls them out on what they do, & suddenly they're heroes for not walking out. https://t.co/B9aT7moy2C

@kumailn

I asked @maggieNYT to quote the line where Michelle intensely criticized SHS's appearance. She unfollowed me.

She has an extremely important job. Making vague statements that she herself cannot back up with facts/quotes isn't helping.

@kumailn

My question to Paris Dennard after Michelle Wolf's performance at last night's #WHCD: “Why do you hold a comedian to a higher standard than you do the president of the United States of America?” pic.twitter.com/ObcXq0ELB1

@keithboykin

honestly the only thing that would offend me about a comic invited to #whcd is if he/she didn't push the envelope in an attempt to make every powerful person and media personality in the room laugh but also relentlessly uncomfortable. That's the gig, or at least it should be...

@swin24

WARNING:
If you're outraged about @michelleisawolf telling jokes at the #WHCD, but not about @POTUS telling lies at his pep rally, call your doctor immediately.

@andylassner

Kudos to @michelleisawolf for making the #WHCD circle jerk as painful and awkward is it deserved to be.

@Bourdain

.@TIFFANYDCROSS: I find it laughable that we're sitting here dissecting what Michelle Wolf said & pointing to her as though she's the problem & not the administration... If you look at #Trump's Twitter feed & don't clutch your pearls... it seems very hypocritical... #AMJoy #WHCD pic.twitter.com/6lY07CI17Q

@amjoyshow

The more I think about it, the more impressed I am that Michelle Wolf did such a harsh act WITHOUT insulting any woman's looks. She aimed straight at the white female enforcers & never once suggested that anyone was a bimbo or a dog—like the man they work for surely would have.

@emilynussbaum

Whatever one might think of Michelle Wolf's performance, it's clear that anyone who works for or supports Trump has no basis for complaining about vulgarity or personal insults. Your house is made of very thin glass.

@DavidCornDC

ACCEPTABLE: Making fun of disabled journalists, making fun of the appearance of female candidates, saying the Paralympics are hard to watch, Mexicans are rapists, one's own daughter is sexually attractive, countries are shitholes

UNACCEPTABLE: Sarah Huckabee Sanders wears makeup

@MikeDrucker

there is a discussion about a dinner celebrating the first amendment- questioning the brilliant job done by michelle wolf - “VULGAR”? what the fuck people - crass - its a roast- TRUTH TELLING IS REQUIRED - she aint the problem - best line of the night “probably lies” #AMJoy

@Rosie