Here is something else that is cut in Washington: Comedy.
The White House Representative Association said on Saturday that it had canceled a planned presentation by Amber Roven, actress and host of Al -Hawari, at her annual black dinner on April 26.
The monologue by a distinguished comedy is usually the most prominent in the formulation of journalists. Unforgettable offers before Stephen Colbert and Seth MairesAmong the other stars, it turned into touch of political satire.
But amid the rocky relations between President Trump and the White House Press Corps – and the many efforts made by the administration to undermine the media – the correspondent group decided to go in a different direction.
The president of the association, Eugene Daniels, wrote to the members on Saturday: “The WHCA Council has unanimously decided that we are no longer displaying a comic performance this year,” the association’s president, Eugene Daniels, wrote to the members on Saturday. “At the moment of the press, I would like to make sure that the focus is not on the policy of division, but on granting our colleagues for their distinguished work and providing scholarships and guidance for the next generation of journalists.”
Representatives of Mrs. Roven did not immediately respond to the comment.
The advertisement was a sharp break from the group’s website in early February, when trumpet Mrs. Roven Comedy style as “the ideal suitability for this current political and cultural climate.”
“She has the ability to walk between superior and humor comments while provoking her fans to think about important issues a day,” said Mr. Daniels in a press statement. “I am happy and her honor said yes.”
In the weeks that followed, Mr. Daniels and his colleagues became members of the Board of Directors of the Correspondents Association involved in various approvals with the administration. White House The Associated Press is banned Journalists from attending some official events and began to choose and choose news outlets Allowed to participate In the presidential journalism group, a break from the previous decades.
On Thursday, Mrs. Roven made critical comments about the White House Trump as he appeared Daily Monster PodcastAt some point, in reference to the administration as a “type of group of killers”. She also said that the correspondent association had encouraged her to be equal in its satire. Ms. Roven said: “They were like,” you have to be equal and make sure to give it to both sides, and I was like, “There is no way to dismantle that, my shout. Under any circumstances. “
Her comments began an angry response from the White House Chief of Staff, Taylor Boudwich, who Books on x“What kind of official and reasonable journalist will attend something like this?” Saturday, after the fall of Mrs. Roven, Mr. Bodwich Referred The association’s statement is “pity”.
In 2017, Mr. Trump became the first president of Skip Since 1981, when Ronald Reagan was unable after an assassination attempt (although Mr. Reagan summoned the event from the hospital room). Mr. Trump did not attend dinner during his first term.
In 2019, the correspondent association chose against a comic for the first time in 15 years and instead Ron Cerene’s reservationHistorian and biography, talked about the first amendment.
On Saturday, Mr. Daniels, who recently Join MSNBC As a reporter, he said that he spent the last two weeks “planning to re -imitate our dinner for this year.” An alternative spokesman has not announced, but he promised an evening focused on honoring “journalistic excellence and strong and independent media covering the most powerful office in the world.”
Julia Jacobs The reports contributed.
