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White House Correspondents’ Association dinner cancels comedian host
The change is a tacit acknowledgment of the growing tensions between the association — which represents White House correspondents from dozens of news outlets — and President Donald Trump.
She also said, of Trump’s likely absence, “I don’t know that anyone’s looking forward to being in the same room as him.”White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich on Friday publicly called out Ruffin for her anti-Trump comments, writing on X, “What kind of responsible, sensible journalist would attend something like this? More importantly, what kind of company would sponsor such a hate-filled and violence-inspiring event?”Eschewing a comedian is in line with the association’s approach to the dinner in 2019, Trump’s third year in office, when acclaimed biographer Ron Chernow delivered a speech instead.This time around, however, Ruffin had already been booked and promoted as the evening’s headliner.Ruffin did not immediately respond to a request for comment. “At this consequential moment for journalism, I want to ensure the focus is not on the politics of division but entirely on awarding our colleagues for their outstanding work and providing scholarship and mentorship to the next generation of journalists,” the association’s president, Eugene Daniels, wrote in a memo Saturday.
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