While we debate whether the comedian at the press dinner told appropriate jokes, Trump has managed to convince millions of Americans that the press is the “enemy of the American people.” https://t.co/r8db5r6cU3
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) April 29, 2018
I would argue that’s more a problem with Twitter as a medium than anything people individually posted on it. https://t.co/89rpiUllxI
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 29, 2018
First question at the WH briefing should be: “Sarah, considering how you may have felt during the comedy routine at the WHCA dinner last night, can you understand how offensive the President’s words about Muslims, Mexicans, women, paralympians, Chuck Todd are? Will he stop?”
— Dan Shapiro (@DanielBShapiro) April 29, 2018
This was, to me, the most important line in her speech https://t.co/jwepRjRj76
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) April 29, 2018
I agree with @RepJeffries. It’s fine to mock what others say and do, but now how they look or sound. Such ad hominem or ad feminam attacks do much more harm than good. https://t.co/zn05ecAUyX
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) April 29, 2018
Sarah Sanders needs to suck it up. She spends her days lying and making excuses for a guy who once called Miss Universe "Miss Piggy" and made her exercise for TV cameras. When she can't justify what he says, she claims he was joking. What she and her boss never do, is apologize.
— Facts Do Matter (@WilDonnelly) April 29, 2018
Deleted my WHCD tweet b/c I don't want to start parsing the jokes. My point is this: Responding to objections to X by Trump supporters by saying Trump is worse than X is whataboutism. If you want to defend the jokes or comedy or whatever, fine, but whataboutism is a weak argument
— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) April 29, 2018
Both still attended the NBC/MSNBC after party: pic.twitter.com/u9sw6mKDiV
— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) April 29, 2018
I attended the WHCD last night. Donald Trump has so poisoned the atmosphere by attacking the disabled, gold star parents, Muslims, Mexicans, Blacks, women, the press, the rule of law that a comedian who simply tells the truth is offensive? She’s joking. He’s not.
— Rob Reiner (@robreiner) April 29, 2018
Students walk out of speech: mocks them as “children fleeing from political speech that they disagree with,” also talks about the importance of “learning to listen to a different POV.”
A comedian says a joke that gave him the sads: [marches out, tells the world, safe space, etc] pic.twitter.com/hmnGsgv12b
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) April 29, 2018
Sad! 