Comedian Amber Ruffin reveals planned White House Correspondents' Dinner comments that would have left MAGA 'really sad'
Comic Amber Ruffin revealed her nixed White House Correspondents' Dinner monologue that she promised would make Donald Trump supporters 'really sad' to Stephen Colbert Monday night.
Ruffin was set to perform at the famed event next month but the association's board unanimously voted to remove her after she said the Trump White House was full of 'murderers.'
The Late Night with Seth Meyers writer doubled down on that critique after her firing, comparing them to 'the Nazis' in The Sound of Music.
She traded Meyers in for CBS' Colbert on Monday - who initially had booked her to recap the festivities - and gave him a sneak peek at her unused material.
'If they didn't want me doing that show before I had even opened my mouth, then they would have been really, really, sad with what they got,' Ruffin warned.
The Colbert crowd was desperately trying to egg Ruffin into sharing exact jokess but the comic refused.
However, she did share with the audience how she was going to end her lengthy routine.
'I was going to end it with like, 'This administration is trying to get you to hate other people. That is not your natural state. Human beings are made to love one another,' she said.
She accused the Trump White House of having 'got you by convincing you that you're filled with hate, and you absolutely aren't. It's the opposite of what you're made for.'
Ruffin admitted to Colbert: 'Saying that out loud now makes me glad that I got canceled.'
WHCA President Eugene Daniels did not mention Ruffin by name in the memo and said that the board is planning a 're-envisioning of our dinner'.
The move to dismiss Ruffin comes after she spoke about the dinner in a podcast this week with the Daily Beast.
She said on it that the Trump White House is staffed with 'murderers' and described the administration as 'not human beings'.
Taylor Budowich, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, shared a clip of Ruffin on the podcast to his X account and slammed the comic on Friday.
In it, he said: 'This year's WHCA dinner will be hosted by a 2nd rate comedian who is previewing the event by calling this administration 'murderers.''
Budowich continued to quote Ruffin saying the Trump admin shouldn't get to feel like human beings 'because you're not.'
'What kind of responsible, sensible journalist would attend something like this? More importantly, what kind of company would sponsor such as hate-filled and violence-inspiring event?'
When Daniels had originally announced Ruffin as the main feature, he said in a statement that her 'unique talents are the ideal fit for this current political and cultural climate.'
He added: 'Her perspective will fit right in with the dinner's tradition of honoring the freedom of the press while roasting the most powerful people on all sides of the aisle and the journalists who cover them.'
The annual dinner has taken place since 1921 and is known for entertainers performing who poke fun at politics, often about key players who are in attendance.
President Trump has never actually attended the dinner in office, and he and his staffers have frequently criticized the event and past comedians who performed.
It is unclear if the president will attend, while his press secretary Karoline Leavitt said she would not be in attendance.
Speaking on 'The Sean Spicer Show', she said: 'This is a group of journalists who've been covering the White House for decades.
'They started this organization because the presidents at the time were not doing enough press conferences.
'I don't think we have that problem anymore under this president.'
Every US president since Calvin Coolidge in 1924 has attended the event at least once, except for Trump.
Presidents from FDR to Obama have used the evening to poke fun at themselves, even as journalists sharpen their critiques.
But Trump's refusal to attend during his first term shattered that precedent, and now Leavitt is following suit, taking a step further to publicly rebuke the WHCA as a 'monetized monopoly.'
She went on to accuse the WHCA of being an 'exclusive group' that has 'not really welcomed other people, new media, independent journalists, with open arms.'
The stripped-down festivities Saturday night were a reflection of the somber tone in Washington at the beginning of Trump's second term, in which he has battled with the press on multiple fronts and wrested from the correspondents' association the power to decide which outlets have the most access to Trump.
Trump´s deeper involvement in politics began after then-President Barack Obama roasted the New Yorker's presidential ambitions during the 2011 correspondents' dinner.
He skipped the annual gala during his first term, and his absence had been widely expected this year.
The event, which raises money for journalism scholarships, remains a highlight of the Washington social calendar.
The ballroom at the Washington Hilton was still packed with journalists, newsmakers and even a few celebrities.
Daniels singled out Debra Tice, whose son Austin has not been heard from other than in a video, released weeks after he went missing in Syria in 2012, that showed him blindfolded and held by armed men.
'We've been tested and attacked. But every single day our members get up, they run to the White House - plane, train, automobile - with one mission, holding the powerful accountable,' Daniels said.
He later showed a video of past presidents, from Ronald Reagan to Joe Biden, who addressed the dinner, saying that the association invites the president to demonstrate the importance of a free press in safeguarding democracy.
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