Comedian Amber Ruffin says she was dropped from headlining this year’s White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner because she was “talking shit” about the Trump administration for “disappearing people.”
Ruffin was originally slated to perform at the annual event in Washington, but the WHCA reversed course last month, citing a desire to focus on celebrating reporters.
“At this consequential moment for journalism,” WHCA president Eugene Daniels wrote in a memo, “I want to ensure the focus is not on the politics of division but entirely on awarding our colleagues for their outstanding work.”
The memo did not note that Ruffin described the Trump administration as killers she did not wish to humanize
Ruffin didn’t hold back when asked about the decision to boot her during her appearance Saturday on CNN’s Have I Got News For You with host Roy Wood Jr.:
WOOD: Amber, following the tradition of Craig from Friday, was fired on her day off. And she was uninvited from the White House Correspondents Dinner when she said that she intended to make fun of the current administration. Amber, do you think you lost the gig because you said too early what you were going to do about going in on Republicans?RUFFIN: I mean, oh, my God. I could fucking talk for the next three hours. But what I choose to say is, it’s like, I lost the gig because I was out here talking shit.
And I think it’s a good thing that I lost the gig, because I wasn’t going to show up there and act all the way out. Also, like, Also, it’s not anyone’s fault, because when I was hired, we were like, oh, yeah, and we’ll give it to everybody. And I was like, bet. Then they started fucking disappearing people to a prison in El Salvador. They rolled back fucking civil rights. So I was, like, if I make this equal, then I’m also a piece of shit. I can’t fucking do that.
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