Comedian Amber Ruffin Slams Trump – Again – After Being Cut As Host Of White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Comedian Amber Ruffin slammed the Trump administration yet again after she was cut as the host of this year’s White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) dinner.

During a Daily Beast podcast last week, Ruffin called the Trump administration “a bunch of murderers.”

WHCA president Eugene Daniels said that his group wanted to refocus the annual event on journalistic excellence and would rescind the comedian’s invitation. “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,” Daniels said in a statement.

He did not mention Ruffin’s comments in a statement. The comedian reacted to being fired from the event during an appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers earlier this week.

“If there’s one thing I learned from this weekend, it’s you have to be fair to both sides,” she said.

“Amber, when people are objectively terrible, we should be able to point it out on television,” Meyers told Ruffin.

“I thought that too – on Friday,” she stated. “But today is Monday, and Monday’s Amber Ruffin knows that when bad people do bad things, you have to treat them fairly and respectfully. When you watch The Sound of Music, you have to root for the singing children and the other people.”

“You mean the Nazis,” Meyers asked.

“Calling them that is so one-sided,” the comedian joked.

“Don’t you think you’re exaggerating?” the host wondered.

“For now,” Ruffin stated.

“I mean, just – the whole reason we have a free press is so we can report stories, you know, as they actually happened,” Meyers declared.

“No, we have a free press so that we can be nice to Republicans at fancy dinners,” the comedian said. “I thought when people take away your rights, erase your history, and deport your friends, you’re supposed to call it out. But I was wrong. Glad to find that out now because if they had let me give that speech, ooh, baby, I would have been so terrifically mean!”

Ruffin then mentioned that she had to leave “to return the dress [she] was going to wear to the Correspondents’ dinner. I already took the tags off, but I’m gonna just say they blew off in the wind.”

“Yeah, but that’s – that’s lying, Amber,” Meyers told her. “That’s wrong.”

“Uh-uh-uh, you can’t say that,” she replied. “That’s journalism.”

In 2023, Ruffin was a Tony Award nominee for her collaboration on the book for Broadway’s Some Like It Hot with Matthew López.