Fox Host Calls Trump Surrogates 'The Real Stars' Of The White House Correspondents' Dinner
Fox host Howard Kurtz was all about denigrating the White House Correspondents’ dinner last night… except for the three Donald Trump supporters whom he called “the real stars” of the night.
Kurtz started his summary of the evening with a sarcastic dig: “I was at the self-important and self-indulgent gathering known as the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last night,” he said.
Kurtz suggested that the most important information was comparing the number of celebrities attending:
KURTZ: I tried to find whether it still had the celebrity glitter in the final year of Barack Obama’s presidency.
Of course, the dinner is supposed to be about journalists and politicians putting aside partisanship for one night but in past years we were overrun by the likes of Tom Cruise, Kevin Spacey, Nicole Kidman, Julia Louis-Dreyfus – oh, and Donald Trump!
This year when it was less of a hot ticket, not so much.
Kurtz said he took his iPhone to the red carpet where there were, nonetheless, “a lot of big stars.” The first one he named was “Reince Priebus! The Republican National Chairman.” We saw a photo of Priebus as well as photos of actual celebrities such as Aretha Franklin, Adriana Lima, Bryan Cranston, Emma Watson, Jeff Goldblum and Michael Kelly.
Next came the laughable part: Kurtz pretended that three Trump supporters were the biggest stars.