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Sarah Huckabee Sanders attended Saturday night's White House Correspondents' Dinner as a representative of the Trump administration, getting a front-row seat to a brutal roasting, courtesy of this year's entertainer Michelle Wolf.
Wolf, host of The Break premiering in May on Netflix, held absolutely nothing back, though she was just feet from the White House Press Secretary.
"I'm a little starstruck," Wolf began. "I love you as Aunt Lydia in The Handmaid's Tale."
Wolf's digs got increasingly rough as the night went on.
"I actually really like Sarah. I think she’s very resourceful," Wolf said, setting up her next jab. "She burns facts and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smoky eye. Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s lies. It’s probably lies."
"I'm never really sure what to call Sarah Huckabee Sanders," Wolf continued. "Is it Sarah Sanders? Is it Sarah Huckabee Sanders? Is it Cousin Huckabee? Is it Auntie Huckabee Sanders? Like, what's Uncle Tom but for white women who disappoint other white women?"
Wolf also had burns for other women in the Trump administration.
Targeting Kellyanne Conway, Wolf said, "Man, she has the perfect last name for what she does: Conway."
Ivanka Trump didn't escape Wolf's gaze either. "She was supposed to be an advocate for women," Wolf said. "But it turns out, she's about as helpful to women as an empty box of tampons."
As one might expect, there were Trump jokes. Here's a few of Wolf's most biting:
- "Like a porn star says when she's about to have sex with a Trump, 'Let's get this over with.'"
- "Tonight, I'm going to try to make fun of the president in a new way, in a way that I really think will get him. Mr. President, I don't think you're very rich. Like, I think you might be rich in Idaho, but in New York you're doing fine."
- “(Trump) wants to give teachers guns, and I support that, 'cause then they can sell them for things they need, like supplies.”
- "I know as much as some of you might want me to, it's 2018 and I'm a woman, so you cannot shut me up — unless you have Michel Cohen wire me $130,000."
- “I did have a lot of jokes about cabinet members, but I had to scrap all of those because everyone has been fired. You guys have gone through cabinet members quicker than Starbucks throws out black people."
On Twitter, people praised and criticized Wolf's performance. "Great job at the #WHCD," one user wrote.
"Had never seen Michelle Wolf's act before," another user wrote. "After #WHCA dinner tonight, can't wait for her new Netflix show. Washington insiders will gasp and tsk tsk, but she killed it, in my opinion."
Others thought her jokes went too far.
"This is pathetic. Michelle Wolf going after @PressSec is not even funny. Just flat out pathetic," a member of the Twitterverse said.
Another called it "vile." "If I'm ever blessed with a daughter, I'd want her to grow up like Sarah Huckabee Sanders, never #MichelleWolf"
