Michelle Wolf on What Happened When Trump Tweeted at Her

I'm really happy that you came on the show. Me too. It was fucking awesome. Thanks. Yeah, I want, I mean, I think out of the Correspondents' Dinner all these people think I'm just a political comic. And I'm like, I'll write jokes for any topic. Yeah. Like, but I don't, like, I don't like telling political jokes. But it was kind of cool, the Correspondents' Dinner thing, because that put you on the map. Yeah, I'm very happy I did it. Don't get me wrong. I stand by those jokes to this day. They were great jokes. Thanks. You got the president to tweet at you. Yeah, I mean, come on. Was it disconcerting when that was happening? I just remember that when he tweeted at me, I, like, because he tweeted once after the dinner and then sometime in like later in the year, like months after. And I was doing like, I was doing a show in Brooklyn. I don't have Twitter on my phone. You don't? No. I only have it on my computer. I was out in Brooklyn doing shows and I was like drinking hot toddies because I think I was like feeling a little under the weather and I was like, this will fix it. And I was someone, I kept getting messages about this tweet and I was like, what? What's going on? What's happening? And I then I finally saw what happened and I was like, well, I guess I got to go home so I can tweet something back. Go home after you've been drinking the tweet back at the president. I'm like three hot toddies in and I'm just like, all right, what can I say? What was your be best? You said something when you fucking roasted him. We actually said it on the podcast. Just now? No, no, no. We actually, when you did it, we were howling. We said what you said on the podcast. He said something about when he, I don't remember the exact tweet he sent me, but it was like something so-called comedian did such a terrible job. Oh yeah. That you'd be on my side if I'd killed a journalist. And that was right after the, that was during the Khashoggi stuff or whatever it was. The Saudi journalist that had been murdered. This is what he said. So-called comedian, Michelle Wolf, by the way, best fucking, that is like some of the best publicity you could ever get. The president says this. Bombed so badly last year at the White House Correspondents Center. First of all, not true. You can go listen to the recordings. People were laughing like, come on, this is so crazy. You say that bomb so badly. Play it back. Yeah. Let's play it back. Huh? What's all that noise? There was parts of it where people got kind of quiet, but I remember I was like, first of all, this is for the audience at home, but also I was like, I'm, it's one of those rooms where you're like, yeah, this is, they, at best they're, it feels fine. Right. You know, like it's like a corporate gig. Exactly. A corporate gig. Yeah. They will have an author instead of a comedian. What a great idea. Good first step and comeback of a dying evening in tradition. Maybe I will go, question mark. Imagine that. Like maybe I'll go. What do you think? Oh, please Donald. I have my new MAGA hat for that event. I love this because I don't know if he wrote this tweet though, because the grammar is so perfect that I'm like- Right. The dash in between so and called. Yeah. It just feels like I was like, did someone else draft this? Could be. But maybe I will go. Yeah, right. Look at correspondence. There's the correct apostrophe after the S. Yeah. Yeah. It feels like, I don't know, maybe he dictated this one and someone was like, I'm going to spell everything right. Yeah. Well, they've done various things to try to stop him. This is 2018. They've done various things to try to slow down his use of Twitter and social media. And I do think that there was a time when someone else was handling it. Yeah. Yeah. But now I think he just fucking goes guns blazing to- At some point. Pumps two Adderalls in a suit of fit and just starts fucking thumbing it hammering out. Two Adderalls in a suit of fit. Gets after it. It's fucking wild to see. I had a dream last night and I forgot about it until we started talking about it, that he was battle wrapping and that some woman made a rap about him and then he made a rap back at her. I had a dream. Maybe it's because I knew you were coming in here and we were probably going to talk about it, but we're a weird fucking dream. And his battle wrap was pretty good. Yeah. And people were like, that is pretty fucking good. Like it was a good battle wrap. He says stuff sometimes where you're like, that's like, that's bars. You know? Yes. But then there's other times where you're like, well, then you're like, wait, but he's the president. I wish he wasn't the president because sometimes the shit he says is hilarious. When he put a fucking giant Trump tower on Greenland, when they were talking about whether or not he was going to, we were going to buy Greenland. He goes, I promise not to do this. And he shows Greenland with a giant gold Trump tower in it. He tweeted that the present. That's fucking hilarious. It's funny. And then you're also like, oh, come on. Why are you president? Anytime he holds up a graph of any sort, I'm just like, this is great. There's no Y access. You know, like it's always stuff where you're just like, this is amazing. Why are you president? Yeah, I don't, I don't know if there's a better person to represent how crazy today is though.