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The association organized by the dinner of the White House correspondents has canceled its main comedy performance for this year’s event after tensions with the Trump administration.
Comedian Amber Ruffin was scheduled to act at the annual dinner next month, but the White House correspondent Association announced on Saturday that he discarded his appearance.
In a note for the members, the association said that the “focus of the event is not in the policy of the division”, but to honor the work of the White House journalists.
The measure occurs after the White House attacked the association for choosing Ruffin as a holder due to his criticisms to the president of the United States, Donald Trump.
Taylor Budowich, the White House Cabinet Deputy Director, reacted to the decision of the association to discard Ruffin’s performance saying that he is a “police.”
“There is no responsibility in the Whca, just a police statement, pathetic!” Budowich wrote on Saturday in an X publication.
Then he criticized Ruffin, a comedian and writer nominated for Emmy and Tony, as “full of hate.”
The president of Whca, Eugene Daniels, announced Ruffin as the poster’s head last month, saying that he was chosen because “the unique talents are the ideal adjustment for this current political and cultural climate.”
Ruffin, NBC’s writer Late Night With Seth Meyers, has made fun of the Trump administration in recent weeks in his segments in the program, including his order to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
The Whca has disagreed with the Trump administration in recent weeks.
Among other issues was the decision to prevent Associated Press from covering certain events, and the White House decision to directly control the press group: the group of journalists who cover the White House and travel with the president of the United States.
It is not clear if Trump will attend the dinner of this year’s correspondent. Guest artists for past dinners include Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Conan O’Brien, Jay Leno and others.
