Here’s a White House Correspondents’ Dinner Routine We All Can Enjoy

Saturday night, comedian Michelle Wolf outraged Washington, D.C. by being mildly impolite to people who are literally more interested in making rich people richer than doing anything to prevent the ongoing poisoning of schoolchildren. By using her platform at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner to point out that virtually everyone in the Trump administration tells lies for money, Wolf damaged the aura of civility and decorum that is so important when you’re trying to tell lies for money, and Washington was not having it. One salt-of-the-earth couple (he’s a George W. Bush staffer-turned-Koch employee-turned-lobbyist and she’s Donald Trump’s White House Director of Strategic Communications) was so offended by mockery from elites (like Michelle Wolf, a 32-year-old stand-up comedian) that they were forced to leave the dinner early:

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