Michelle Wolf Fires Back At Critics On Left And Right After Blazing White House Correspondents Dinner Set
Comedian Michelle Wolf has fired back at critics of her scorched-earth set at last night’s White House Correspondents Dinner.
Twitter continues to percolate today, with hashtags from the night comprising more than half of the top 10 trending topics. Republicans naturally have pounced on the set, which spared few in the Trump Administration or the media. Donald Trump, who did not attend, tweeted that Wolf “really ‘bombed,'” putting the word in quotes for reasons that remain unclear. When former press secretary Sean Spicer called the whole event a “disgrace,” Wolf replied with a simple “thank you!” (Her tweet garnered more than 100,000 likes, showing how contentious the whole affair has became.)
Because Wolf took aim at press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and commented on her makeup, there was also plenty of criticism in the center and on the left side of the aisle. Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, called the jokes “deplorable” and noted her own perspective on Trump. “I have experienced insults about my appearance from the president,” she tweeted. “All women have a duty to unite when these attacks happen and the WHCA owes Sarah an apology.”
Wolf fired back, replying to Brzezinski’s tweet with a defense of the line, which compared Sanders to the evil Aunt Lydia on Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale and said she “burns facts then uses that ash to create the perfect smoky eye.” Tweeted Wolf, “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.”
When New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman tweeted a compliment to Sanders for sitting and enduring Wolf’s set live instead of walking out, Wolf replied, “All those jokes were about her despicable behavior,” ending with a blown-kiss emoji.
Here are tweets from Wolf and Trump, plus some other reactions:
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
— Michelle Wolf (@michelleisawolf) April 29, 2018
Hey mags! All these jokes were about her despicable behavior. Sounds like you have some thoughts about her looks though?
— Michelle Wolf (@michelleisawolf) April 29, 2018
Thank you! https://t.co/0Nsx5ZBj8c
— Michelle Wolf (@michelleisawolf) April 29, 2018
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
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 29, 2018
Trivial matters require little to no research. It’s easy to focus your anger on a joke told by a comic, but it’s a lot harder to do the research to really understand the intricacies of a societal crisis. That’s why there’s more anger at Michelle Wolf than Sanders herself today. https://t.co/Q2pr2WdNih
— Seth MacFarlane (@SethMacFarlane) April 29, 2018
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.
— Emily Nussbaum (@emilynussbaum) April 29, 2018
If conservatives really thought Michelle Wolf insulted women and mocked their appearance, they would have elected her president
— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) April 29, 2018
The most offensive line in Michelle Wolf’s routine was “Flint still doesn’t have clean water;” if something else she said bothers you more than that then maybe we shouldn’t trust your judgment about anything.
— ana marie cox (@anamariecox) April 29, 2018
Michelle Wolf attacking @PressSec last night was wrong. Full stop.
Being a comedian is one thing, being a bully is something completely different.
As a member of the WHCA, I join many of my colleagues in saying that Sarah deserves an apology.
— Trey Yingst (@TreyYingst) April 29, 2018
You folks gotta admit that some of those Michelle Wolf jokes look REAL bad when written out this way. Physical appearance should be off limits! pic.twitter.com/sxpvlYxkRn
— Griffin Newman (@GriffLightning) April 29, 2018
When did it become okay to be more offended by what someone with no power says than by what someone with power does?
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) April 29, 2018
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