Comedian Matt Friend spoke at the 2024 White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on Saturday, entertaining a tough audience with his typical jokes about “Sleepy Joe” and “Puppy Killer.”
“It’s truly a great opportunity to be at the biggest loser dinner party ever. It’s great to see you losers,” Friend said as he greeted the 2,600 attendees.
“Why so quiet? What’s going on? It’s quieter than Sleepy Joe,” he said, before delivering a string of politically charged quips.
“Not fast enough, not fast enough,” he said after eliciting gasps, groans and laughter from the crowd. He quipped: “I’m killing this dinner harder than Kristi Noem kills a puppy. “This sentence caused even more enthusiastic applause.
Noem writes in her upcoming book, “No Looking Back: The Truth About Politics and How We Can Move America Forward,” that she killed her 14-month-old puppy, which was reportedly ” Untrainable”, “Not worthless yet”. To The Guardian.
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Kristi Noem’s actions receive backlash
She described Cricket as a “difficult, dirty, ugly” dog and said, “I hate that dog.” According to Noem, Donald Trump’s potential vice presidential contender, she took Creek to a gravel pit and shot the puppy with a gun.
In the book, she also writes about killing a “filthy and mean” goat that used to chase her children and had an extremely bad smell.
After being jailed, Noem faced harsh criticism, with some calling her “trash.” Rick Wilson wrote: “You kill old, injured, and sick dogs in a humane manner instead of shooting them and throwing them into a gravel pit. It’s unsportsmanlike and Intentionally cruel…but she wrote it to prove that cruelty is the point.” The Lincoln Project on X.
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Matthew Nichol, a MAGA account with over 38,000 followers, wrote on Healthy dog. I’m disappointed. Any thoughts?”
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