Addressing the 2024 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday, Comedian Matt Friend entertained a troublesome crowd together with his typical jokes about ‘Sleepy Joe’ and ‘puppy killer’.
“It is really a tremendous opportunity to be at the most failed dinner anyone’s ever seen. Great to see you losers,” Friend mentioned whereas greeting 2,600 attendees.
“Why is it so quiet? What’s taking place? It’s quieter than Sleepy Joe,” he said, earlier than breaking right into a string of politically charged quips.
After garnering gasps, groans, and laughs from the gang, he mentioned: “Not quickly sufficient, not quickly sufficient.” “I’m killing this dinner tougher than Kristi Noem kills the puppies,” he quipped, evoking even louder applause with the assertion.
In her upcoming ebook, ‘No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward’, Noem writes about killing her 14-month-old puppy, who was “untrainable” and “less than worthless”, in accordance with The Guardian.
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Describing Cricket as a “troublesome, messy and ugly” canine, she remarked, “I hated that canine”. According to Donald Trump’s potential VP contender Noem, she took Cricked to a gravel pit and shot the puppy together with her gun.
In the ebook, she additionally writes about killing a “nasty and imply” goat that used to chase her youngsters and scent extraordinarily unhealthy.
Following her admission, Noem confronted extreme criticism, with one calling her a “trash”. “You put down old dogs, damage dogs, and sick dogs humanely, not by taking pictures them and tossing them in a gravel pit. Unsporting and intentionally merciless … however she wrote this to show the cruelty is the purpose,” wrote Rick Wilson of the Lincoln Project on X.
With over 38,000 followers, MAGA account Matthew Nichol wrote on X,: “I don’t care if she is MAGA. Kristi Noem is finished in my thoughts. How can anyone shoot a wholesome canine. I’m so disillusioned. Any ideas?”
Later, the South Dakota Governor took to X to justified her actions, writing: “We love animals, however powerful selections like this occur on a regular basis on a farm. Sadly, we simply needed to put down 3 horses just a few weeks in the past that had been in our household for 25 years.”
