Trump Roasts Tapper, Collins, and Omar — AND Katy Perry Melts Down Over a Song

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After the last White House Correspondents dinner ended with an assassination attempt from an Epstein-crazed conspiracy theorist, the media glitterati finally assembled in D.C. to congratulate each other for their awful work. I have thoughts on Trump’s roast of the media.
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AI GeneratedThe speaker analyzes Donald Trump's performance at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, ranking his jokes and discussing the media's reaction. The commentary also covers the controversy surrounding a joke about Caitlyn Collins and Dylan Mulvaney, the social dynamics between journalists and politicians, and Katy Perry's criticism of the administration's use of her music.
After the last White House Correspondence Center, you remember, ended with an assassination attempt
from an Epstein-crazed conspiracy theorist, the media glitterati finally assembled in D.C. to
congratulate each other for their awful work. I've thoughts on Trump's roast of the media,
I'll rank which jokes were my favorite, as well as the stupid Dylan Mulvaney-Kaitlyn Collins
controversy, and as an added bonus, we get to Katy Perry's hypocrisy playing G.I. Jane in a
music video back in 2012, but now she's upset with the Trump administration for using her music
The media saved most of their ire over the weekend for the President of the United States,
who attended the replacement White House Correspondence Center. You'll recall,
the first White House Correspondence Center was broken up when somebody tried to assassinate
the President. Well, this one didn't go nearly as poorly. As I said, the President's performance,
it wasn't like top-notch Trump. I've seen top-notch Trump before. He got some good shots
in. He got some funny jokes, but it was kind of buried in an avalanche of, you know, stuff.
He went on for a while, but there are a couple of solid jokes here. One of his most solid jokes
came at the expense of my friend Barry Weiss. Here was President Trump. Under my administration,
a once feared and powerful regime that relentlessly attacked America has finally been toppled.
Their former leaders have been removed, and they're now being run by a gay dictator
facing internal divisions. But I, for one, wish Barry Weiss all the best at CBS News.
Yeah, that's a good joke. I'm gonna be honest, it's a good joke. So first of all,
he is calling the dictator wrong gay. But also, that's a good joke. Trump also joked
about gunshots and Nicki Minaj at the previous White House Correspondence Center.
After hearing the gunshots, many people yelled, get down, get down, which caused
Nicki Minaj to start twerking, do you believe? Get down. She's the only one that really understood
what that meant. Okay, and then not one of his better one. We'll evaluate. Okay, joke number one,
nine out of ten. Joke number two, three out of ten. Okay, President Trump also joked
about a fourth term. I want to save your ratings. I'm pleased to announce my intention to,
and this is somewhat of a scoop, my intention to run for a fourth term as President of the
United States. I will be doing that. I will be having an official. In fact, I think I have.
Yeah, I won three times. Now I'm gonna do it again. Thank you. I'm gonna do it again.
Should be easy. I'm getting very good at running for president.
Okay. Yeah, I'm like one out of ten on that one because he's made that joke before. It's an oldie
and not very goodie. President Trump did drag Jake Tapper of CNN for his alleged delay on
reporting Joe Biden's cognitive decline. But some people say that Jake Tapper is a great
investigative reporter in D.C., and that's why after moderating our debate, it only took him
one year to break the story that Joe Biden might possibly have suffered from cognitive decline.
Took him one year. He wrote a book about how great he was mentally, not too good.
Okay, again, not a joke, just an accurate take there from the President of the United States.
The President also went after Ilhan Omar's World War XI failures in the past. Remember that she
does not know how to apparently read Roman numerals. So he made a joke about it.
It's becoming such a horrible and dangerous location that Ilhan Omar, one of my favorites,
and her brother are thinking about moving together very much in love.
A video has surfaced recently of Ilhan giving a speech referring to World War II as World War XI.
And they asked her about that. She still thought she thought she got it right.
But I'm not surprised because she's a low IQ person and she's also a very dishonest person.
And she ought to get the hell out of our country. She shouldn't be here.
She shouldn't be in our country. She also calls her brother husband number one.
Yeah, I like that. He's like he has to take time out from the Joe
to just smack the crap out of her. Like he's just in the middle of the joke.
I'm just going to go into how much I hate Ilhan Omar, which I think made it funnier. I will admit
I think the delivery made that joke, which wasn't a great joke, funnier. That's like a five out of
ten. And then he went after Gavin Newsom. This one this one I kind of liked.
And it's traditional that at least one or two potential presidential hopefuls
attend the correspondence dinner. But many of them seem to have really chickened out.
I was disappointed that Gavin Newsom didn't show up. He didn't show up. He should be here.
But I heard that he recently said that we will lose our country if we don't fight fire with fire.
And to be fair, there's only one thing we know about Gavin, and that's that he definitely
doesn't want to fight fire with water. He's got a lot of water, never uses.
That's a good joke. That's a good joke. OK, so best two jokes so far.
Obviously, the Barry White joke and also the Gavin Newsom joke. OK, but there is one that
set the media aflame. The media were just rageful about this joke. They were horrified by this joke.
So the president loves to pick on Caitlyn Collins of CNN. He's constantly calling on her just to
rag on her. Well, he did that again, but he did so with a comparison that the media
are losing their minds over. Here was the president at the White House Correspondents
Association dinner. But I want to personally congratulate CNN's Caitlyn Collins on receiving
her award. It was all about me. It's a fake. She shouldn't get the award. It was a fake.
But I didn't mind. I said, Caitlyn, congratulations. But it was fake. There's no question about it.
But she's a young, attractive woman. She never smiles. I said, Caitlyn, do you have a smile?
Smile. You have a nice position. You're at CNN fake news. You should be a happy person.
So smile, Caitlyn, just smile. But we attack. And I thought Caitlyn had really made it big with a
major new sponsorship. But then I informed her that it wasn't her on the Bud Light can.
It was Dylan Mulvaney. Okay, so this apparently was shot. How could he? How could he? CNN
put out a statement condemning the president comparing Caitlyn Collins to Dylan Mulvaney.
Dylan Mulvaney, of course, is a man who believes he is a woman. Mark Thompson said,
quote, We stand by our journalists and the integrity and fair mindedness with which the
CNN team reports the news. Honest, accurate journalism may sometimes irritate politicians,
but our right to report and present that reporting to the public without government
interference is fully protected by the US Constitution. CNN will continue to exercise
this right. I'm not aware of anything in the joke that actually had anything to do with Caitlyn
Collins not being able to ask questions. She still is. And then the president put out a an
A.I. photo of Caitlyn Collins as Dylan Mulvaney in that famous Bud Light influencer deal. Dylan
Mulvaney then responded, quote, I am free in a way they will never have the privilege to experience.
I mean, I hope I never have the experience of Dylan Mulvaney. Like, I don't know. I feel like
I'm sort of attached to my appendages. I feel useful to me. And they want to use their power
to take away my freedom. What they don't understand is my freedom has zero contingency
on what they can provide for me because my freedom is fully dependent on the moment I
acknowledge my real authentic self and everyday sense and sharing that with the world is just
icing on the cake. But they don't want me to be able to share that because it would mean young
people realizing if someone like me can be themselves and find success and freedom, they
can find success and freedom for themselves, too. Yeah, nailed it. OK, so first, I just have to ask
a question. Why was that joke offensive? Why was anyone offended by that joke? I've been told by
the entire legacy media that Dylan Mulvaney is not just a woman. Dylan Mulvaney is a beautiful
woman. So what is offensive about that joke? What is insulting about that joke? You're going to say
it. You're going to say it. You're going to say Dylan Mulvaney is a dude. That's why it's an
insulting joke. That's just a dude dressed up as a lady. You're going to say it, guys. Are you?
Didn't think so. Well, there are some sort of awkward juxtapositions at the White House
Correspondents Dinner. Kristen Welker of MSNBC. She was seen laughing with Stephen Miller at the
at the White House Correspondent. Again, let's be real about it. In Washington, you see most
people know each other. It's a fairly small town. So this is really not a shock.
We can't put I mean, they're just smiling, laughing at each other,
treating each other like humans. It turns out that when all is said and done,
people tend to treat each other like humans when they're in person with one another.
The president was laughing and shaking hands with the same Wall Street Journal reporters
who originally had pushed the Trump Epstein story. He sued the Wall Street Journal for this story,
by the way. Trump quickly filed a 20 billion dollar lawsuit against the journal, revealing
reporter Khadija Safdar's home address. Her family had to be relocated. The journal was kicked off of
Air Force One, but the reporters continue to file revelatory stories. Please welcome the winners
of the Catherine Graham Award from the Wall Street Journal.
It's a little funny. OK, that might have been the funniest moment, is that he has to congratulate
the reporters who he hates so much and he doesn't care. So he's just doing it. It's kind of funny.
OK, other kind of celebrity political news. So Katy Perry, who is just erotic at this point,
she's just a parody of herself. And if you chart the life of Katy Perry,
the seven degrees of Katy Perry is insane. That's an insane seven degrees of Katy Perry,
just in terms of her love life. She was married to Russell. And now she is dating Justin Frudeau.
Just that right there, that Venn diagram is super duper weird. I mean, if you connect
Russell Brand going the other way, you end up with like Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes.
And if you go the Justin Frudeau route, you end up with like full communism. So it's like the full
horseshoe via Katy Perry. It is it is wild stuff. In any case, Katy Perry over the weekend said
she was very upset that the White House used her song Firework on their TikTok account as a backing
track for video footage of military strikes. She said, I did not approve this. I was not asked.
And I absolutely do not condone it. To see a message of self-worth and upliftment weaponized
to soundtrack destruction and violence is a complete violation of everything my song stands
for. Well, lady, you already gave up the rights to your catalog for two hundred twenty five million
dollars. I mean, that's kind of like your fault. Like if you wanted to control it, then you could
have not sold the rights to that stuff. And of course, it turns out that her part of me music
video featured Marines from Camp Pendleton back in twenty twelve. Better times, man.
Better times, Katy Perry, like with the military men. Remember when she was younger and more
talented? Yeah. Oh, well. Her charging the beach there, it's like Elliot Page in the Odyssey.
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