US President Donald Trump has escalated his long-running war with the mainstream media by assailing the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA).
A day after former “Daily Show” comedian Michelle Wolf targeted Trump and his aides on national television, Trump on Sunday night slammed the annual correspondents’ dinner as “an embarrassment.”
The president went on to describe Wolf’s stand-up act as “filthy.”
“The White House Correspondents’ Dinner was a failure last year, but this year was an embarrassment to everyone associated with it,” Trump tweeted.
“The filthy ‘comedian’ totally bombed (couldn’t even deliver her lines-much like the Seth Meyers weak performance). Put Dinner to rest, or start over!” he added.
Trump was referencing Meyers’ 2011 performance in which he ripped into Trump. At that event, even then-President Barack Obama mocked Trump, who at the time was leading the so-called “birther” movement against…