Ten near-the-knuckle lines from Michelle Wolf

Michelle Wolf split the room when she hosted the White House Correspondents Dinner last night – but many were unimpressed with her savage attacks on journalists and members of Donald Trump’s team.

Press secretary Sarah Sanders sat stony-faced as the comedian likened her to a white Uncle Tom and adviser Kellyanne Conway also drew fire.

Former press secretary Sean Spicer said: ‘It was absolutely disgusting… It’s one thing to celebrate the first amendment but that, tonight, was one of the most disgusting and deplorable things I’ve ever heard in my life. The language, the references were way over the line.’

Here are ten lines from her routine, which was broadcast on TV:

Opening her monologue: ‘Like a porn star says when she’s about to have sex with a Trump, let’s get this over with.

‘Just a reminder to everyone: I’m here to make jokes. I have no agenda I’m not trying to get anything accomplished, so everyone that's here from Congress, you should feel right at home.’

‘It’s 2018 and I am a woman so you cannot shut me up. Unless you have Michael Cohen wire me $130,000’ – the sum Trump’s lawyer paid the porn star Stormy Daniels who said she slept with him before he was President.

‘Fox News is here, so you know what that means, ladies: Cover your drinks.’

On Donald Trump’s absence for a second year: ’I would drag him here myself, but it turns out that the president of the United States is the one pussy you’re not allowed to grab.’

‘Trump is so broke he grabs pussies because he thinks there might be loose change in them.’

‘[Trump] loves white nationalists. Which is a weird term for a Nazi. It’s like calling a pedophile ‘kid friendly,’ or Harvey Weinstein ‘a ladies man.Which is not fair; he also likes plants.’

‘It is kind of crazy the Trump campaign was in contact with Russia when the Hillary campaign wasn't even in contact with Michigan.’

On Ivanka: ‘She was supposed to be an advocate for women… She’s done nothing to satisfy women. So I guess, like father like daughter.’

‘She’s the diaper genie of the administration. On the outside she looks sleek, but the inside, it’s still full of shit.’

Published: 29 Apr 2018