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 There wasn't a single target in the room Michelle Wolf didn't hit during her roast tonight, and that included press secretary Sarah Sanders. 
  
 "We are graced with Sarah's presence tonight. I have to say I'm a little star struck. I love you as aunt Lydia in 'The Handmaid's Tale,'" Wolf said. 
  
 "I actually really like Sarah. I think she's very resourceful. But she burns facts and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smokey eye," she said. 
  
 Sanders sat at the head table tonight, just a few feet away from the podium. 
  
 Here's Wolf's roast and Sanders' reaction: ||||| Comedian Michelle Wolf performs during a gig in New York City on June 29. Wolf asked Saturday night whether the media is "obsessed with Trump." | Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for Hilarity For Charity Wolf routine stuns White House Correspondents' Dinner Trump administration officials walk out as comedian attacks Sarah Huckabee Sanders and others, delivering a harsh, risque performance in the president's absence. 
  
 Members of the Trump administration walked out of the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday night after comedian Michelle Wolf ripped into White House staffers, including press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, in the absence of the president himself. 
  
 A year after the White House boycotted the annual dinner — and with President Donald Trump holding a competing campaign-style rally in Michigan — director of strategic communications Mercedes Schlapp and her husband, conservative activist Matt Schlapp, were among those who marched out of the ballroom at the Washington Hilton long before Wolf's keynote routine was over. 
  
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 Footage broadcast live on cable TV networks showed Sanders sitting at the head table on stage stone-faced, wincing and at times raising her eyebrows as Wolf compared her to a character on the dystopian TV series "The Handsmaid's Tale" and to an "Uncle Tom" for white women. 
  
 "I actually really like Sarah. I think she's very resourceful. But she burns facts and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smokey eye," Wolf joked about Sanders. "Like maybe she's born with it; maybe it's lies. It's probably lies." 
  
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 It was a risque and uneven routine at first met with laughs but often greeted by awkward silence. Wolf laced into the president and repeatedly brought up his comments from the "Access Hollywood" tape. The performance evinced memories of the 2006 dinner, at which Stephen Colbert savagely satirized the Bush administration. 
  
 Wolf opened her act with the line, “Good evening, here we are at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Like a porn star says when she’s about to have sex with Trump, let’s get this over with,” the first of many bawdy insults. 
  
  
  
 Wolf's other targets included Vice President Mike Pence, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, and the president's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. 
  
 But much of the room went silent with Wolf's personalized attacks — and an abortion joke that wasn't well received — and after the Comedy Central comedian joked that she wished a tree would fall on Conway, adding that she did not hope that the White House aide would get hurt, but only "that she would get stuck." 
  
 "It’s why America hates the out of touch leftist media elites," Mercedes Schlapp wrote on Twitter afterward. 
  
 Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer deemed the evening a "disgrace" in a tweet, to which Wolf replied: "Thanks!" 
  
 Echoing Spicer, former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus called Wolf's set "R/X rated" and said the performance left Trump as the clear winner. 
  
 An R/X rated spectacle that started poorly and ended up in the bottom of the canyon. Another victory for @realDonaldTrump for not attending and proving his point once again. The room was uncomfortable. Trump lovers and even a large number of Trump haters were pretty miserable. — Reince Priebus (@Reince) April 29, 2018 
  
 New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, who was honored during the dinner for her reporting, said Sanders' refusal to walk out amid the barbs was "impressive." 
  
 "That @PressSec sat and absorbed intense criticism of her physical appearance, her job performance, and so forth, instead of walking out, on national television, was impressive," Haberman wrote on Twitter. 
  
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 While the harshest barbs were reserved for the administration, Wolf also lit into the news media. 
  
 "You guys are obsessed with Trump. Did you used to date him? Because you pretend like you hate him, but I think you love him," Wolf said. "I think what no one in this room wants to admit is that Trump has helped all of you." 
  
 Refusing to attack print media, because "it's illegal to attack an endangered species," Wolf poked at Fox News for the network's ousting of hosts for sexual harassment allegations, CNN for "breaking news" and MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski for showing what it's like "when 'Me Too' works out." 
  
 While Trump pilloried the "dishonest" media at his rally in Michigan, White House officials had mingled with the Washington press corps, in marked contrast with last year's event. White House aides said on the red carpet before the dinner that they were attending with Trump's blessing. 
  
 Sanders, Conway, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and many others attended, alongside former White House officials including Priebus, Spicer and National Economic Council chair Gary Cohn. 
  
 For the second year in a row, Trump avoided one of the annual highlights for a profession he has routinely called "the enemy of the American people." Many representatives of what he has termed the "fake news media" accepted awards for their stories detailing the chaos inside the president's administration. 
  
 Last week, Trump slammed Haberman, who was honored with the association's Aldo Beckman Memorial Award, as a "Crooked H flunkie who I don’t speak to," after she co-bylined a piece reporting that Cohen, his longtime personal attorney, might flip on him following an FBI raid on his properties. 
  
 CNN journalists Evan Perez, Jim Sciutto, Jake Tapper and Carl Bernstein were honored for breaking the story that intelligence community had briefed then-President Barack Obama and later President-elect Donald Trump on some of the salacious details contained in the infamous Russia dossier compiled by former MI6 agent Christopher Steele. Trump has repeatedly denied the claims in the dossier and has called the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election a "witch hunt." 
  
 Trump's animosity toward the event is believed to stem from a ribbing delivered to the reality TV star and real estate magnate from the podium in 2011 by Obama and comedian Seth Meyers, who heaped scorn on Trump for his questioning Obama's status as a U.S. citizen. 
  
 White House Correspondents' Association President Margaret Talev said, "We reject efforts by anyone, especially our elected leaders, to paint journalism as un-American." 
  
 "An attack on one journalist is an attack on us all," added Talev, a Bloomberg reporter and CNN analyst. 
  
 Begun in 1921, the White House Correspondents' Association annual dinner has been attended by every president at least once during their term in office, beginning with President Calvin Coolidge in 1924. In recent years, A-list celebrities like Will Smith, Morgan Freeman, Emma Watson and Charlize Theron have traveled to Washington to participate. This year was largely devoid of stars, although high-profile attendees included comedian Kathy Griffin, director Rob Reiner, the former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber and Baltimore Orioles Hall of Famer Brooks Robinson. 
  
 The brunches and parties held throughout the weekend often create interesting mixes: This year, onetime White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci was pictured on social media joking with Michael Avenatti, who represents adult film star Stormy Daniels in a dispute over an alleged hush-money payment arranged by Cohen. Avenatti also posted about his conversation at a pre-party with Conway, a fellow George Washington law school alum. Avenatti said on CNN before the dinner that his encounter with Conway was "spirited." 
  
 Perhaps the biggest question of the night before Wolf's performance was whether Trump would one day take his turn at the head table. 
  
 "We’ll see what happens,“ Sanders said. "There’s always a chance." 
  
 That chance seems a little slimmer now after Wolf's bruising routine. ||||| An R/X rated spectacle that started poorly and ended up in the bottom of the canyon. Another victory for @ realDonaldTrump for not attending and proving his point once again. The room was uncomfortable. Trump lovers and even a large number of Trump haters were pretty miserable. |||||
– "Good evening, here we are at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner; like a porn star says when she’s about to have sex with Trump, let’s get this over with." Thus began Michelle Wolf's White House Correspondents' Dinner monologue, one that Politico terms "bruising" and Reince Priebus calls an "R/X rated spectacle that started poorly and ended up in the bottom of the canyon." While President Trump again skipped the political-media spectacle, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was at the head table to represent the White House; Wolf showed no mercy, saying, "We are graced with Sarah's presence tonight. I have to say I'm a little star struck. I love you as Aunt Lydia in The Handmaid's Tale." More burns, also via CNN: "I actually really like Sarah. I think she's very resourceful. But she burns facts and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smokey eye." "Mr. President, I don't think you're very rich. Like, you might be rich in Idaho, but in New York, you're doing fine." "It's 2018, and I'm a woman so you cannot shut me up. Unless you have Michael Cohen wire me $130,000." "Mike Pence is what happens when Anderson Cooper isn't gay." CNN has a list of everyone targeted by Wolf here.
Sammanfatta denna artikel: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Det fanns inte ett enda mål i rummet Michelle Wolf inte slog under hennes stek ikväll, och det inkluderade pressekreterare Sarah Sanders. "Vi är hedrade med Sarahs närvaro ikväll. Jag måste säga att jag är en liten stjärna. Jag älskar dig som faster Lydia i ''Tjänarinnans saga,''» sade Wolf. "Jag gillar faktiskt Sarah. Jag tycker att hon är väldigt påhittig. Men hon bränner fakta och sedan använder hon askan för att skapa ett perfekt rökigt öga, säger hon. Sanders satt vid huvudbordet i kväll, bara några meter från podiet. Här är Wolfs stek och Sanders reaktion: <unk> Komikern Michelle Wolf uppträder under en spelning i New York den 29 juni. Wolf frågade lördagskvällen om media är "besatt med Trump". Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for Hilarity For Charity Wolf rutin bedövar Vita huset Correspondenters middag Trump administration tjänstemän går ut som komiker attackerar Sarah Huckabee Sanders och andra, leverera en hård, risque prestanda i presidentens frånvaro. Medlemmar i Trumpadministrationen gick ut ur Vita huset Correspondenters' Dinner på lördagskvällen efter att komikern Michelle Wolf slitit sig in i Vita husets personal, bland annat pressekreterare Sarah Huckabee Sanders, i presidentens frånvaro själv. Ett år efter Vita huset bojkottade den årliga middagen — och med president Donald Trump som höll ett konkurrerande kampanjliknande rally i Michigan — var chefen för strategiska kommunikationer Mercedes Schlapp och hennes make, den konservativa aktivisten Matt Schlapp, bland dem som marscherade ut ur balsalen på Washington Hilton långt innan Wolfs grundtonsrutin var över. Story Continued Below Footage direktsände i kabel-TV-nät visade Sanders sittande vid huvudbordet på scenen stenansikte, vinskande och stundtals höjande ögonbrynen som Wolf jämförde henne med en karaktär på den dystopiska TV-serien "The Handsmaid's Tale" och med en "Farbror Tom" för vita kvinnor. "Jag gillar faktiskt Sarah. Jag tycker att hon är väldigt påhittig. Men hon bränner fakta och sedan använder hon den askan för att skapa ett perfekt rökigt öga", skämtade Wolf om Sanders. "Som om hon kanske är född med den; kanske är det lögner. Det är nog lögner." Det mest pålitliga nyhetsbrevet om politik. Registrera dig för POLITICO Playbook och få de senaste nyheterna, varje morgon — i din inkorg. E-post Registrera dig Genom att registrera dig godkänner du att få nyhetsbrev eller varningar från POLITICO. Du kan avregistrera dig när som helst. Det var en ristig och ojämn rutin som först möttes av skratt men ofta hälsades av tafatt tystnad. Wolf spetsade in sig i presidenten och tog upprepade gånger upp sina kommentarer från "Access Hollywood"-bandet. Föreställningen visade minnen från 2006 års middag, vid vilken Stephen Colbert brutalt satiriserade Bushadministrationen. Wolf öppnade sin akt med repliken, "God kväll, här är vi på Vita huset Correspondenters middag. Som en porrstjärna säger när hon är på väg att ha sex med Trump, låt oss få detta överstökat,” den första av många bawdy förolämpningar. Wolfs övriga måltavlor var vicepresident Mike Pence, Vita husets rådgivare Kellyanne Conway, och presidentens personliga advokat, Michael Cohen. Men stora delar av rummet tystnade med Wolfs personliga attacker — och ett abortskämt som inte togs emot väl — och efter att komikern Comedy Central skämtade om att hon önskade att ett träd skulle falla på Conway, och tillade att hon inte hoppades att Vita husets medhjälpare skulle komma till skada, utan bara "att hon skulle fastna". "Det är därför Amerika hatar out of touch vänsteristiska media eliter," Mercedes Schlapp skrev på Twitter efteråt. Tidigare Vita husets pressekreterare Sean Spicer ansåg kvällen vara en "onåd" i en tweet, på vilken Wolf svarade: "Tack!" Echoing Spicer, före detta Vita husets stabschef Reince Priebus kallade Wolfs uppsättning "R/X betygsatt" och sade att föreställningen lämnade Trump som den tydliga vinnaren. Ett R/X-klassat spektakel som började dåligt och hamnade i kanjonens botten. Ännu en seger för @realDonaldTrump för att inte delta och bevisa sin poäng ännu en gång. Rummet var obekvämt. Trumpälskare och även ett stort antal Trumphatare var ganska eländiga. — Reince Priebus (@Reince) 29 april 2018 New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, som hedrades under middagen för sin rapportering, sade Sanders vägran att gå ut mitt bland hullingarna var "imponerande". "Att @PressSec satt och absorberade intensiv kritik av hennes fysiska utseende, hennes arbetsprestation och så vidare, istället för att gå ut, på nationell TV, var imponerande", skrev Haberman på Twitter. affisch="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201804/3840/1155968404_5777963819001_5777923636001-vs.jpg?pubId=1155968404" sant Medan de hårdaste barberna var reserverade för administrationen, tände Wolf också in i nyhetsmedierna. "Ni är besatta av Trump. Har du dejtat honom? Eftersom du låtsas att du hatar honom, men jag tror att du älskar honom," sade Wolf. "Jag tror att vad ingen i det här rummet vill erkänna är att Trump har hjälpt er alla." Vägrar att attackera tryckta medier, eftersom "det är olagligt att attackera en utrotningshotad art," så petade Wolf på Fox News för att nätverket har kastat ut värdar för sexuella trakasserier anklagelser, CNN för "brytande nyheter" och MSNBC värdar Joe Scarborough och Mika Brzezinski för att visa hur det är "när 'Me Too' fungerar." Medan Trump pillorierade de "nedsättande" media på hans rally i Michigan, Vita huset tjänstemän hade blandat sig med Washington presskår, i tydlig kontrast till förra årets händelse. Vita husets medhjälpare sa på röda mattan före middagen att de närvarade med Trumps välsignelse. Sanders, Conway, handelsminister Wilbur Ross och många andra närvarade, vid sidan av före detta Vita husets tjänstemän inklusive Priebus, Spicer och National Economic Council ordförande Gary Cohn. För andra året i rad undvek Trump en av de årliga höjdpunkterna för ett yrke han rutinmässigt har kallat "det amerikanska folkets fiende." Många företrädare för vad han har kallat "falska nyhetsmedier" tog emot priser för sina berättelser som i detalj beskriver kaoset inom presidentens administration. Förra veckan, Trump smällde Haberman, som hedrades med föreningens Aldo Beckman Memorial Award, som en "Crooked H flunkie som jag inte talar med," efter att hon sam-bylines en bit rapporterar att Cohen, hans långa personliga advokat, kan vända på honom efter en FBI räd på hans egendomar. CNN-journalisterna Evan Perez, Jim Sciutto, Jake Tapper och Carl Bernstein hedrades för att ha brutit historien om att underrättelsesamfundet hade informerat dåvarande president Barack Obama och senare presidentvalde Donald Trump om några av de saliga detaljer som fanns i den ökända Rysslands dossier som sammanställts av före detta MI6-agenten Christopher Steele. Trump har upprepade gånger förnekat påståendena i akten och har kallat sonden för rysk inblandning i valet 2016 för en "häxjakt." Trumps fiendskap mot händelsen tros härröra från en ribbing som levererades till reality-TV-stjärnan och fastighetsmagnaten från prispallen 2011 av Obama och komikern Seth Meyers, som hopade förakt på Trump för hans ifrågasättande av Obamas status som amerikansk medborgare. Vita husets korrespondenterförenings president Margaret Talev sade, "Vi avvisar ansträngningar av någon, särskilt våra valda ledare, att måla journalistik som oamerikansk." "En attack på en journalist är en attack på oss alla", tillade Talev, en Bloomberg-reporter och CNN-analytiker. År 1921 har Vita husets korrespondenterförenings årliga middag gästats av varje president minst en gång under deras ämbetsperiod, med början av president Calvin Coolidge 1924. På senare år har A-listkändisar som Will Smith, Morgan Freeman, Emma Watson och Charlize Theron rest till Washington för att medverka. Detta år saknades till stor del stjärnor, även om uppmärksammade deltagare var bland andra komikern Kathy Griffin, regissören Rob Reiner, den före detta olympiska gymnasisten Jordyn Wieber och Baltimore Orioles Hall of Famer Brooks Robinson. Bruncherna och festerna som hålls under helgen skapar ofta intressanta mixar: I år föreställde sig Vita husets kommunikationsdirektör Anthony Scaramucci på sociala medier skämtande med Michael Avenatti, som representerar vuxenfilmsstjärnan Stormy Daniels i en dispyt över en påstådd hush-peng-betalning arrangerad av Cohen. Avenatti postade också om sitt samtal på en förfest med Conway, en kollega George Washington juridikskola alun. Avenatti sa på CNN innan middagen att hans möte med Conway var "spritt". Kvällens kanske största fråga innan Wolfs framträdande var om Trump en dag skulle ta sin tur vid huvudbordet. "Vi får se vad som händer," sade Sanders. "Det finns alltid en chans." Den chansen verkar lite smalare nu efter Wolfs blåmärken. Ett R/X-klassat spektakel som började dåligt och hamnade i dalens botten. En annan seger för @ realDonaldTrump för att inte delta och bevisa sin poäng ännu en gång. Rummet var obekvämt. Trumpälskare och även ett stort antal Trumphatare var ganska eländiga. Â°°
Summarizing this article: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images There wasn't a single goal in the room Michelle Wolf didn't hit under her steak tonight, and that included press secretary Sarah Sanders. "We are honored with Sarah's presence tonight. I have to say, I'm a little star. I love you as Aunt Lydia in the 'Say of the Servant,' said Wolf. "I actually like Sarah. I think she's very resourceful. But she burns the facts and then uses the ashes to create a perfect smoky eye," she says. Sanders sat at the main table tonight, just a few meters from the podium. Here's Wolf's steak and Sander's reaction: <unk> Comedian Michelle Wolf performs during a gig in New York City on June 29. Wolf asked Saturday night if the media is "obsessed with Trump". Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for Hilarity For Charity Wolf routine stuns White House Correspondents dinner Trump administration officials go out as comedians attack Sarah Huckabee Sanders and others, delivering a hard, risque performance in the president's absence. Members of the Trump administration walked out of the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday night after comedian Michelle Wolf ripped himself into White House staff, including press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, in the president's absence himself. A year after the White House boycotted the annual dinner — and with President Donald Trump holding a competing campaign-like rally in Michigan — the head of strategic communications was Mercedes Schlapp and her husband, conservative activist Matt Schlapp, among those who marched out of the ballroom at Washington Hilton long before Wolf's keynote routine was over. Story Continued Below Footage live on cable television networks showed Sanders sitting at the main table on stage stoneface, winking and occasionally raising eyebrows that Wolf compared her to a character on the dystopian television series "The Handsmaid's Tale" and with a "Uncle Tom" for white women. "I actually like Sarah. I think she's very resourceful. But she burns facts and then she uses that ashes to create a perfect smoky eye," Wolf joked about Sanders. "As if she might be born with it; maybe it's lies. It's probably lies." The most reliable newsletter on politics. Sign up for the POLITICO Playbook and get the latest news, every morning — in your inbox. Email Sign up By registering you agree to receive newsletters or warnings from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. It was a risty and uneven routine that was first met with laughter but often greeted by awkward silence. Wolf spiked into the president and repeatedly addressed his comments from the "Access Hollywood" band. The performance showed memories of the 2006 dinner, at which Stephen Colbert brutally satirized the Bush administration. Wolf opened his file with the line, "Good evening, here we are at the White House Correspondents' dinner. As a porn star says when she's about to have sex with Trump, let's get this over with,” the first of many bawdy insults. Wolf's other targets were Vice President Mike Pence, White House advisor Kellyanne Conway, and the President's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. But much of the room silenced with Wolf's personal attacks — and an abortion joke that was not received well — and after comedian Comedy Central joked that she wished a tree to fall on Conway, adding that she did not hope the White House aide would get hurt, but only "that she would get stuck". "That's why America hates out of touch leftist media elites," Mercedes Schlapp wrote on Twitter afterwards. Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer considered the evening a "disgrace" in a tweet, to which Wolf replied, "Thank you!" Echoing Spicer, former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus called Wolf's set "R/X rated" and said the performance left Trump as the clear winner. An R/X-rated spectacle that started poorly and ended up at the bottom of the canyon. Another victory for @realDonaldTrump to not participate and prove his score once again. The room was uncomfortable. Trump lovers and even a large number of Trump haters were quite miserable. — Reince Priebus (@Reince) April 29, 2018 New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, who was honored during dinner for his reporting, said Sander's refusal to go out amid the barbs was "impressive". "That @PressSec sat and absorbed intense criticism of her physical appearance, her work performance and so on, instead of going out, on national television, was impressive," Haberman wrote on Twitter. poster="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201804/3840/1155968404_5777963819001_5777923636001-vs.jpg?pubId=1155968404" true While the hardest barbs were reserved for administration, Wolf also lit into the news media. "You're obsessed with Trump. Did you date him? Because you pretend you hate him, but I think you love him," Wolf said. "I think what no one in this room wants to admit is that Trump has helped you all." Refusing to attack printed media, because "it's illegal to attack an endangered species," Wolf poked at Fox News for the network having thrown out hosts of sexual harassment charges, CNN for "breaking news" and MSNBC hosting Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski to show how it is "when 'Me Too' works." While Trump pilloried the "derogatory" media at his rally in Michigan, White House officials had mixed with the Washington Press Corps, in clear contrast to last year's event. White House aide said on the red carpet before dinner that they attended with Trump's blessing. Sanders, Conway, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and many others attended, alongside former White House officials including Priebus, Spicer and National Economic Council chairman Gary Cohn. For the second consecutive year, Trump avoided one of the annual highlights of a profession he has routinely called "the enemy of the American people." Many representatives of what he has called "false news media" accepted awards for his stories detailing the chaos within the president's administration. Last week, Trump slammed Haberman, who was honored with the association's Aldo Beckman Memorial Award, as a "Crooked H flunkie with whom I'm not talking," after she co-bylines a piece reports that Cohen, his long personal lawyer, can turn him around after an FBI raid on his estates. CNN journalists Evan Perez, Jim Sciutto, Jake Tapper and Carl Bernstein were honored to have broken the story that the intelligence community had informed then President Barack Obama and later presidential elected Donald Trump of some of the blessed details found in the infamous Russia dossier compiled by former MI6 agent Christopher Steele. Trump has repeatedly denied the claims in the act and has called the probe Russian involvement in the 2016 election a "witch hunt." Trump's enmity to the event is believed to stem from a ribbing delivered to reality television star and real estate magnate from the 2011 podium by Obama and comedian Seth Meyers, who heaped contempt on Trump for his questioning of Obama's status as a U.S. citizen. White House correspondent association president Margaret Talev said, "We reject efforts by someone, especially our elected leaders, to paint journalism as un-American." "An attack on a journalist is an attack on all of us," added Talev, a Bloomberg reporter and CNN analyst. In 1921, the annual dinner of the White House Correspondents Association has been attended by each president at least once during their term of office, beginning with President Calvin Coolidge in 1924. In recent years, A-list celebrities such as Will Smith, Morgan Freeman, Emma Watson and Charlize Theron have traveled to Washington to appear. This year was largely missing stars, although noted participants included comedian Kathy Griffin, director Rob Reiner, former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber and Baltimore Orioles Hall of Famer Brooks Robinson. The brunches and parties held over the weekend often create interesting mixes: This year White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci envisioned on social media joking with Michael Avenatti, who represents adult film star Stormy Daniels in a dispute over an alleged hush-peng payment arranged by Cohen. Avenatti also posted about his conversation at a pre-party with Conway, a colleague George Washington law school alum. Avenatti said at CNN before dinner that his meeting with Conway was "spritt". Perhaps tonight's biggest question before Wolf's performance was whether Trump would one day take his turn at the main table. "We'll see what happens," said Sanders. "There's always a chance." That chance seems a little narrower now after Wolf's bruises. An R/X-rated spectacle that started poorly and ended up at the bottom of the valley. Another win for @ realDonaldTrump to not participate and prove his score once again. The room was uncomfortable. Trump lovers and even a large number of Trump haters were quite miserable. <unk>
– "God kväll, här är vi på Vita husets Correspondenters middag; som en porrstjärna säger när hon ska ha sex med Trump, låt oss få det här överstökat." Så började Michelle Wolfs Correspondents' Dinner-monolog, en som Politico kallar "bruising" och Reince Priebus kallar ett "R/X-rankat spektakel som började dåligt och hamnade i kanjonens botten." Medan president Trump igen hoppade över det politiska-media skådespelet, pressekreterare Sarah Huckabee Sanders var vid huvudbordet för att representera Vita huset; Wolf visade ingen nåd, säger, "Vi är hedrade med Sarahs närvaro ikväll. Jag måste säga att jag är en liten stjärna. Jag älskar dig som tant Lydia i Tjänarinnans saga.» Fler brännskador, även via CNN: "Jag gillar faktiskt Sarah. Jag tycker att hon är väldigt påhittig. Men hon bränner fakta och sedan använder hon den askan för att skapa ett perfekt rökigt öga." »Herr president, jag tror inte, att ni är så rik. Du kanske är rik på Idaho, men i New York går det bra." "Det är 2018, och jag är kvinna så du kan inte få tyst på mig. "Om inte Michael Cohen ger mig 130 000 dollar." "Mike Pence är vad som händer när Anderson Cooper inte är gay." CNN har en lista över alla som Wolf är ute efter.
– "Good evening, here we are at the White House Correspondents' Dinner; as a porn star says when she's going to have sex with Trump, let's get this over with." So began Michelle Wolf's Correspondents' Dinner monologue, one that Politico calls "bruising" and Reince Priebus calls an "R/X-ranked spectacle that started poorly and ended up at the bottom of the canyon." While President Trump again skipped the political-media spectacle, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was at the main table to represent the White House; Wolf showed no mercy, saying, "We are honored with Sarah's presence tonight. I have to say, I'm a little star. I love you as Aunt Lydia in the Servant's Tale." More burns, even via CNN: "I actually like Sarah. I think she's very resourceful. But she burns facts and then she uses that ashes to create a perfect smoky eye." "Mr. President, I don't think you're so rich. You may be rich in Idaho, but in New York it's fine." "It's 2018, and I'm a woman so you can't shut me up. "Unless Michael Cohen gives me $130,000." "Mike Pence Is What Happens When Anderson Cooper Is Not Gay". CNN has a list of everyone Wolf's after.