Michelle Wolf Made People Sad for Sarah Sanders

Michelle Wolf made fun of Sarah Sanders, who sat a few feet away, at the White House correspondents dinner on Saturday. This made some people very sad for the woman who is basically a megaphone for Donald Trump’s lies.

If you don’t want to listen to the entire thing, here’s what Wolf said.

We are graced with Sarah’s presence tonight. I have to say I’m a little star-struck. I love you as Aunt Lydia in The Handmaid’s Tale. Mike Pence, if you haven’t seen it, you would love it.

Every time Sarah steps up to the podium, I get excited, because I’m not really sure what we’re going to get — you know, a press briefing, a bunch of lies or divided into softball teams. “It’s shirts and skins, and this time don’t be such a little bitch, Jim Acosta!”

I actually really like Sarah. I think she’s very resourceful. She burns facts, and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smoky eye. Like maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s lies. It’s probably lies.

And I’m never really sure what to call Sarah Huckabee Sanders, you know? 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? Oh, I know. Aunt Coulter.

A lot of journalists came to her defence saying things like

That @PressSec sat and absorbed intense criticism of her physical appearance, her job performance, and so forth, instead of walking out, on national television, was impressive.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 29, 2018

Lot of critics but she has always been decent and professional to me — if not entirely forthcoming (and I don't expect any press secretary to be!) https://t.co/bM6Efz2Xmf

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) April 29, 2018

Watching a wife and mother be humiliated on national television for her looks is deplorable. I have experienced insults about my appearance from the president. All women have a duty to unite when these attacks happen and the WHCA owes Sarah an apology.

— Mika Brzezinski (@morningmika) April 29, 2018

Oh poor Sarah Sanders. She had to sit through 2 minutes of jokes which actually didn’t attack her appearance at all. Boo hoo. Try sifting the web for news every day and having to read all the moronic things Trump says everyday. That’s the real struggle.