Correspondents’ dinner organizers ask host not to make fun of Trump

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Correspondents’ dinner organizers ask host not to make fun of Trump

By Mara Siegler

April 28, 2017 | 9:16pm

“The Daily Show’s” Hasan Minhaj, who is hosting the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in DC, was asked by organizers not to make fun of President Donald Trump, who will not be in attendance, says a source who saw the comic at the Village Underground on Thursday.

“It was a polite request because Trump is so thin-skinned,” the source said.

Reuters’ Jeff Mason, who is president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, insists he never said Trump was “thin-skinned,” but added that he wanted a balanced event.

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[Wingnut]

What is a Hasan  minhaj? 

[INVAR]

We know he is thin-skinned.  We saw all his Tweet-wars that would go on endlessly when he felt he was dissed.

But hey - everyone insisted that Trump was going to be our savior, so who cares that he is more sensitive and a bigger baby than Obama was about his freaking ears?

[Applewood]

Since Trump decided he didn't want to attend, I think he should be fair game.  Let the two-year-old throw another tantrum so the world can see how immature he is. 

[Hondo69]

Another option is to use the Gong Show approach.  Get the hook.

[Cripplecreek]

Its unseemly to make the president cry.

[Frank Cannon]

Its unseemly to make the president cry.

Really dude? Donny doesn't cry. He generally unleashes hell on his advisories.

[Frank Cannon]

What is a Hasan  minhaj?

It's what is put into a Benjo Ditch.

[Suppressed]

Really dude? Donny doesn't cry. He generally unleashes hell on his advisories.

It usually comes out as a big "WAAAAAHHHHHH!", though.

[Oceander]

Really dude? Donny doesn't cry. He generally unleashes hell on his advisories.

What are "advisories"?

[Frank Cannon]

What are "advisories"?

Whatever. I'm still drunk from last night.

[Oceander]

Whatever. I'm still drunk from last night.

Okey-dokey. 

[ABX]

As soon as you are told not to mock, parody, satirize, criticize, or challenge a leader, that is the exact time that it is the most important to do it.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Since Trump decided he didn't want to attend, I think he should be fair game. 

Or ... the correspondents can return to the true purpose of the dinner which is a scholarship benefit for gifted students in college journalism programs. This is what the dinner is supposed to be all about .... not trashing a President they disagree with.

But I'm sure you knew this @Applewood 

[EC]

Which organisers asked?

Why? Whos pockets are their hands in? Who's puppetting them?

[geronl]

Um, what? How could they not.

[Cyber Liberty]

I guess "thin-skinned" is only OK if it's Obama's?

[Victoria33]

As soon as you are told not to mock, parody, satirize, criticize, or challenge a leader, that is the exact time that it is the most important to do it.

@AbaraXas

This "emperor has no clothes" so it's really easy to mock him.  My guess is they will ignore him and make the giving of their scholarships the crux of the dinner.

[Cyber Liberty]

@AbaraXas

This "emperor has no clothes" so it's really easy to mock him.  My guess is they will ignore him and make the giving of their scholarships the crux of the dinner.

That would be the intelligent thing to do, which is why I think they won't do it that way.  No, this will be wall-to-wall Trump bashing. 

[Applewood]

Or ... the correspondents can return to the true purpose of the dinner which is a scholarship benefit for gifted students in college journalism programs. This is what the dinner is supposed to be all about .... not trashing a President they disagree with.

But I'm sure you knew this @Applewood

Past presidents were roasted at these events and they lived to tell about it.  I believe President Bush (43) attended these dinners and the media hated him. I don't recall him throwing a tantrum or whining "I'm not going.  They will be mean to me."

Didn't we have enough of the press treating Obama with kid gloves?  If Trump had any class at all, he would go, enjoy himself and maybe get in a few barbs in return.  But since he won't, let the attendees yuck it up at his expense.

[Cripplecreek]

Past presidents were roasted at these events and they lived to tell about it.  I believe President Bush (43) attended these dinners and the media hated him. I don't recall him throwing a tantrum or whining "I'm not going.  They will be mean to me."

Didn't we have enough of the press treating Obama with kid gloves?  If Trump had any class at all, he would go, enjoy himself and maybe get in a few barbs in return.  But since he won't, let the attendees yuck it up at his expense.

Lèse-majesté

 Its the patriotic thing to do.

[Oceander]

Roast the sucker. 

[LadyLiberty]

He'll be in his safe space, watching the dinner and live tweeting. 

[Cyber Liberty]

Roast the sucker.

I'm sure they will, and his not being there will have no effect on it.

[musiclady]

Obama redux.

Don't make fun of the king.