One obvious way you can tell that CNN is “comfort food” for Trump haters — to borrow a phrase from Brian Stelter — is all the clapping and yelling when Amber Ruffin starts trash-talking Trump on CNN’s Saturday “comedy” panel show Have I Got News For You.
The show’s host Roy Wood Jr. put Ruffin in their “Offend-o-Meter” segment to discuss the White House Correspondents Association firing her from their dinner gig. The crowd wildly supported offending Trump and journalists who thought it would be best to mock both parties.
Wood asked if Ruffin thought she was dumped for revealing her hand too early that she would only mock Republicans.
“Oh my God, I could f–king talk for the next three hours,” Ruffin said. “But what I choose to say is, it’s like, I lost the gig because I was out here talking sh-t. And I think it’s a good thing that I lost the…
