A Hillary Clinton WHCD would’ve been exactly like an Obama one. Where most of the “jokes” were about how perfect he was.
On the other hand, I’m picturing the WHCD if Trump ends up being reelected. It’s gonna devolve into primal scream therapy
CNN: “In a truly thought provoking act comedian ____ really threw out all of the stops in their roast of President Trump.”
Curiously enough, Trump attended one of Obama's earlier WHCD's in 2011, I believe, and Obama spent an unusual amount of time up on the podium laying into Donald Trump, of all people. It is a
very strange video in retrospect, and the more times you watch it, the more you really have to wonder just how long this plan of his to dismantle everything Obama ever touched was really in the works.
The WHCD has been on a steady decline in terms of being able to justify its existence since at least the 1980s, but it's an event that people
really began to question underneath Obama, because what had originally been a
fairly informal, one-day affair designed to draw in money for charities was rapidly turning into an
expensive, week-long festival of decadence that was more concerned with champagne and blowing smoke up Obama's ass than it was to elicit funding for important charity events.
The WHCD extends well beyond just that one dinner now, too. There was a journalist from Politico who actually ended up
quitting his job just to work on a documentary about how far the WHCD had strayed from its original purpose, which was largely
supposed to be about raising money for journalistic scholarships, and has since exploded into a week composed of 40 different, lavish parties where the line between Hollywood and Politics became increasingly, disturbingly difficult to find.
Even the
Huffington fucking Post was writing articles critical of the WHCD in its later years, because it had just become completely indefensible. Most of the parties being held outside of the WHCD were not only off limits for the same reporters, but in many cases they were
off the record entirely even though all of the same politicians and celebrities were involved.
The entire thing has just become some massive circle-jerk between politicians, celebrities, and the mainstream media, and I really could
not be happier that he's making a routine of snubbing his invitations. The WHCD has long-since outstayed its welcome, it's doing nothing productive, and it's accomplished
nothing to curb the rise of "celebrity journalism", which needed to be taken out behind a shed and
shot more than a decade ago.
