Amber Ruffin doubles down with vile slur after being axed from White House gig for calling Team Trump ‘murderers’

Amber Ruffin doubled down on her criticism of the Trump administration, comparing them to ‘the Nazis’ in The Sound of Music after she was fired from the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner. 

Ruffin was set to perform at the famed event next month but the association’s board have unanimously voted to remove her after she said the Trump White House was full of ‘murderers.’ 

Eugene Daniels, president of the WHCA, said that he wanted to ensure ‘the focus is not on the politics of division but entirely on awarding our colleagues’.

Appearing on Seth Meyers’ NBC show – where she has worked as a writer and occasional actor since its 2014 debut – the liberal host allowed Ruffin to vent on her firing.

Ruffin interrupted Meyers as he was about to make a joke attacking the WHCA before she interrupted and said: ‘If there’s one thing I learned from this weekend, it’s you have to be fair to both sides.’

Meyers – whose infamous 2011 set mocking Trump to his face is rumored to have fueled his desire to win the White House – replied: ‘Amber, when people are objectively terrible, we should be able to point it out on television.’

Ruffin said that ‘on Friday’ she felt the same way but ‘today is Monday, and Monday’s Amber Ruffin knows that when bad people do bad things, you have to treat them fairly and respectfully.’

That’s when she went all in on her anger toward the Trump White House and the WHCA: ‘When you watch Sound of Music, you have to root for the singing children and the other people.’ 

Ruffin was set to perform at the famed event next month but the association’s board have unanimously voted to remove her after she said the Trump White House was full of ‘murderers’

Meyers asked: ‘You mean the Nazis?’

Ruffin didn’t correct him but instead joked: ‘Calling them that is so one-sided!’

The NBC host then explained the stated goal of the White House Correspondents Association.

‘I mean, the whole reason we have a free press is so we can report stories, you know, as they actually happen,’ he said.

Ruffin sarcastically retorted: ‘No, we have a free press so that we can be nice to Republicans at fancy dinners.’

She then continued to ironically slam the Trump administration for its policies on reversing DEI and immigration.

‘I thought, when people take away your rights, erase your history, and deport your friends, you’re supposed to call it out. But I was wrong,’ she said.

Ruffin then offered a preview of what would have been a critical, left-leaning monologue at the dinner.

She then made a joke saying that ‘you have to root for the singing children and the other people’ in the movie The Sound of Music. When Meyers asked: ‘you mean the Nazis?’ she replied sarcastically: ‘Calling them that is so one-sided!’

‘Glad to find that out now, because if they had let me give that speech, ooh, baby! I would have been so terrifically mean.’

She left with one more slap at the WHCA, telling Meyers that she was going to return the dress she bought to wear for the dinner despite having removed the tags. 

‘I’m just going to say they blew off in the wind,’ she cracked.

Meyers replied: ‘But that’s lying, Amber, that’s wrong.’

However, with a wink at the camera, she quipped: ‘Ah, ah, ah, you can’t say that, that’s journalism.’

Before Ruffin interrupted, Meyers was defending his employee after her firing.

‘I just want to take a moment to say that I’m a big fan of Amber Ruffin and I would have loved to hear what she had to say,’ he said.

WHCA President Daniels did not mention Ruffin by name in the memo and said that the board is planning a ‘re-envisioning of our dinner’.

Ruffin offered a preview of what would have been a ‘so mean,’ critical, left-leaning monologue at the dinner

Trump’s last appearance at the WHCA dinner was in 2015 as a private citizen, when he and Melania Trump were photographed at the glitzy event

The move to dismiss Ruffin comes after she spoke about the dinner in a podcast this week with the Daily Beast. 

She said on it that the Trump White House is staffed with ‘murderers’ and described the administration as ‘not human beings’.

Taylor Budowich, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, shared a clip of Ruffin on the podcast to his X account and slammed the comic on Friday. 

In it, he said: ‘This year’s WHCA dinner will be hosted by a 2nd rate comedian who is previewing the event by calling this administration “murderers.”‘

Budowich continued to quote Ruffin saying the Trump admin shouldn’t get to feel like human beings ‘because you’re not.’

‘What kind of responsible, sensible journalist would attend something like this? More importantly, what kind of company would sponsor such as hate-filled and violence-inspiring event?’

When Daniels had originally announced Ruffin as the main feature, he said in a statement that her ‘unique talents are the ideal fit for this current political and cultural climate.’

He added: ‘Her perspective will fit right in with the dinner’s tradition of honoring the freedom of the press while roasting the most powerful people on all sides of the aisle and the journalists who cover them.’

Ruffin was set to perform at the famed event next month but the association’s board have unanimously voted to oust her from the dinner

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has announced she will boycott the dinner next month

The annual dinner has taken place since 1921 and is known for entertainers performing who poke fun at politics, often about key players who are in attendance. 

President Trump has never actually attended the dinner in office, and he and his staffers have frequently criticized the event and past comedians who performed. 

It is unclear if the president will attend, while his press secretary Karoline Leavitt said she would not be in attendance. 

Speaking on ‘The Sean Spicer Show’, she said: ‘This is a group of journalists who’ve been covering the White House for decades.

‘They started this organization because the presidents at the time were not doing enough press conferences. 

‘I don’t think we have that problem anymore under this president.’

Every US president since Calvin Coolidge in 1924 has attended the event at least once, except for Trump. 

Presidents from FDR to Obama have used the evening to poke fun at themselves, even as journalists sharpen their critiques.

But Trump’s refusal to attend during his first term shattered that precedent, and now Leavitt is following suit, taking a step further to publicly rebuke the WHCA as a ‘monetized monopoly.’

She went on to accuse the WHCA of being an ‘exclusive group’ that has ‘not really welcomed other people, new media, independent journalists, with open arms.’