Halperin Slams White House Correspondents’ Association For Not Admitting ‘Huge Mistake’ Of Booking Anti-Trump Comedian
Political analyst Mark Halperin criticized the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) on Monday for not acknowledging that booking comedian Amber Ruffin was a significant error in its announcement that she would…
Political analyst Mark Halperin criticized the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) on Monday for not acknowledging that booking comedian Amber Ruffin was a significant error in its announcement that she would no longer perform at the association’s annual dinner on April 26.
“he WHCA board has unanimously decided we are no longer featuring a comedic performance this year,” WHCA president Eugene Daniels announced in a March 29 email to the White House press corps, adding that it was an effort to avoid focusing “on the Politics of division.” Halperin, on “The Morning Meeting,” argued the WHCA’s announcement omitted an admission of any wrongdoing in hiring the comedian, who has a record of being an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump.
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While the WHCA dinner bills itself as nonpartisan, Ruffin criticized Trump and praised former Vice President Kamala Harris in the weeks prior to the 2024 election during an interview with Advocate, an LGBT-interest magazine. For instance, she called Trump “a gross president.”