Michelle Wolf: Pro-Trump Podcasters Crave Power

Comedienne Michelle Wolf has one regret about her 2018 White House Correspondents Association routine.

The gig found Wolf lacerating members of the first Trump administration, specifically White House Spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders in ways that cut against the event’s tough but genial tone.

The annual gala isn’t a roast. Participants expect some sharp elbows, and in theory, both Democrats and Republicans alike get teased.

That rarely happens, of course.

Wolf’s naked cruelty drew criticism from both sides of the aisle. The moment branded her as a politically-charged comic, goosing interest in her Netflix series “The Break.” The far-Left show got the axe after 10 episodes.

If she had to do the WHCA dinner all over again, she would be even meaner, Wolf told “The Last Laugh” podcast, hosted by the far-Left Daily Beast’s Matt Wilstein.

Wolf’s career fizzled following her show’s cancellation. She still snagged the streamer’s attention for a new comedy special, the November release dubbed “The Well.”

The comic flexed her extreme progressive bona fides throughout the “Last Laugh” chat. Think:

• Open Borders
• American Blacks are systemically legislated against today (without evidence)
• Late-night TV hosts are held back from criticizing President Donald Trump

She saved her sharpest comments for podcasters who aligned with Trump or, at the least, interviewed him in the waning days of the 2024 presidential election.

Think Joe Rogan, Tony Hinchcliffe, Theo Von, Andrew Schulz and Tim Dillon. Except Wolf refused to name the comics in question.

Listeners understood exactly who she meant.

“They joined the Trump bandwagon,” Wolf says of the unnamed comedians. Since then, some like Rogan and Dillon, have questioned elements of the Trump agenda in action following the president’s re-election.

That speaks to their lack of blind allegiance and independent streaks. They may have endorsed or embraced Trump in some fashion, but they remain capable of calling balls and strikes as needed.

Wolf sees it differently.

“‘Now, wait, he’s doing all these things I didn’t think he would do,'” she said in their collective voice. “No, he was very clear, this was what he was going to do. You liked this guy and now if it’s hurting your business you don’t like him. That’s the risk you take.”

It’s unclear how this is hurting the various podcasters’ businesses.

“If you really believed in this guy and you believed in what he was doing … grabbing parents out of cars at school pick-ups and deporting them,” she continued. She said she’d prefer it if the unnamed comics simply embraced all of Trump’s policies.

“I’d think you were a terrible person for that, but I’d have more respect for it in a way,” she said.

So why did a microscopic group of comedians peel off from their peers to support Trump? Why would Rogan, who in recent years said he had little interest in having Trump on his show, have a change of heart?

Could it be they saw the unbridled censorship of Team Biden and feared four more years of the same (if not worse)? Or, perhaps they saw Vice President Kamala Harris as so inept she couldn’t even survive a three-hour chat with Rogan?

Not to Wolf.

“It’s just the idea of being close to power, which is what a lot of those guys get off on,” she said.