CNN Flashes Alleged Trump-Epstein Letter, Brings On Colbert Comic to Rip Trump #Political
On Friday, CNN This Morning previewed Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner by spotlighting a highly questionable choice by the White House Correspondents' Association—then compounding it with a guest selection that ensured a one-sided Trump-bashing fest.
Substitute host Jessica Dean noted that the Wall Street Journal will receive the WHCA’s top honor for its report on a letter Donald Trump allegedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday. Dean acknowledged that Trump has denied sending the letter and sued the newspaper over the story.
But CNN didn’t stop at describing the report. It chose to display a graphic of the explicit letter—even as it described it as merely “alleged”—including the crude image formed by Trump’s signature.
Instead of inviting a WHCA official or media reporter to discuss the dinner and the award, CNN chose Pete Dominick, a longtime warm-up comedian for The Colbert Report and an acidulous Trump hater. Dominick quickly launched into a tirade, calling Trump a “thin-skinned, insecure, immature, sad, mean, terrible president.”
Dominick went on to insist—repeatedly—that the role of comedians is to “speak truth to power,” lamenting that no comic had been invited to perform at this year’s dinner. And here we thought the role of a comedian is to make people laugh.
Dominick argued that the WHCA’s decision not to include a comedian was...injustice. "It won't be anywhere positive for democracy or a real celebration of the First Amendment because, Jessica, they didn't invite a comedian....There should be a comedian there. The fact that there's not a comedian there is injustice. It looks like they're trying to kiss his butt and appease him."
The man was very upset they're bringing on a mentalist instead of a comedian. He absurdly alleged that Trump had “canceled Colbert,” a claim Dean did not challenge. "It's really bad for America and bad for democracy, especially because he's tried to cancel comedians. He canceled Colbert. He tried to cancel Kimmel and he couldn't."
Throughout the segment, Dean offered no pushback to any of Dominick’s assertions. Instead, she teed up the discussion with a clip of Barack Obama mocking Trump at the 2011 dinner. He insisted "it's such an important moment, element of this dinner, to have a comedian there to speak truth to power, to make fun of the president to his face." But CNN didn't show someone mocking Obama. They showed Obama mocking Trump, the future president.
The result was a revealing reflection of CNN’s liberal bias: an award centered on a disputed, denied claim, amplified by the show’s display of the letter itself, followed by commentary from an ardently anti-Trump comic—all without a hint of skepticism.
Here's the transcript.
CNN This Morning
4/24/26
6:53 am EDTJESSICA DEAN: Some of that reporting on Epstein will take center stage at the White House Correspondents' Dinner tomorrow night. The Wall Street Journal will receive the group's top honor for their report on a letter Trump allegedly sent to Epstein for his 50th birthday. You'll remember the president called the story fake and sued the paper for $10 billion. That lawsuit was ultimately dismissed. The reported author of that note will also be in attendance.
President Trump is set to attend and speak at the dinner for the first time as president. Joining us now, Pete Dominick, comedian and host of the Stand Up with Pete Dominick podcast. Pete, great to have you. I think I just kind of laid it out in terms of all the competing dynamics that are gonna be happening at that dinner tomorrow night. Trump obviously has been attacking the media, suing them constantly. What might tomorrow night be like?
PETE DOMINICK: Well, unfortunately, It won't be anywhere positive for democracy or a real celebration of the First Amendment because, Jessica, they didn't invite a comedian.
And the reason why they didn't invite a comedian is because they knew our thin-skinned, insecure, immature, sad, mean, terrible president wouldn't come.
And why shouldn't they? I mean, comedians are there to speak truth to power. I was at that dinner five years in a row. And I also worked for Stephen Colbert at The Colbert Report. And every night, at every taping of the Colbert Report, there was always an audience member who remembered his performance at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, I believe in 2006, when he questioned George W. Bush while he was right by his side, and his failure to find weapons of mass destruction.
It put Colbert on the maps, meant that his legacy, because he spoke truth to power in a way, right to the president at the time, that too many journalists weren't doing.
And the same is the case for now.
. . .
DEAN: And look, you mentioned past dinners. Obviously, Trump has his history with this event. There is that moment. And I think it is a key moment when then-President Obama joked about him. He was in the audience. This was in 2011. I just want to play a quick clip.
BARACK OBAMA: In an episode of Celebrity Apprentice, at the steakhouse, the men's cooking team did not impress the judges from Omaha Steaks. You didn't blame Little John or Meatloaf. You fired Gary Busey. And these are the kind of decisions that would keep me up at night.
DEAN: And later on, there was a lot of talk that, like, that moment really affected President Trump and pushed him toward potentially running.
But this, to your point, this dinner has the potential to create moments over the years like Stephen Colbert with George W. Bush, as you mentioned, like that.
DOMINICK: Yeah, I mean, it's such an important moment, element of this dinner, to have a comedian there to speak truth to power, to make fun of the president to his face, and journalists and journalism as well.
For the White House Correspondents Association to not invite a comedian is to, it looks like, to appease the president. And there's already so much erosion and faith in journalism, especially corporate journalism. It doesn't do them any favors either.
There should be a comedian there. The fact that there's not a comedian there is injustice. It looks like they're trying to kiss his butt and appease him, the only way they could get him to go.
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