I watched both the official White House Correspondents Dinner and Sam Bee’s alternate version.
The later is really just a Sam Bee standup routine. If you enjoy her sense of humor you’ll like it, especially her versions of hosting and roasting former presidents.
Her fantasy segment of what it would be like if Hillary was president wasn’t even funny, it was just sad wishful thinking.
I thought Hasan Minaj’s skewing of Trump was scalpel sharp. But there was one joke I didn’t get.
"Every time Trump goes golfing, the headline should read, 'Trump golfing. Apocalypse delayed. Take the W.’ “
I had to look this up. Take the “W “ means to withdraw from a class rather than getting an F. However it also has another meaning.
Update: Thanks to commenters I now know the it also means, in sports, “take the win.” See below. I like the idea that Minaj’s meaning didn’t refer to Trump taking the win, but for US to take the win because at least as long as he was golfing the end of the world was delayed.
A "W" will not affect your overall GPA. If you get an "F", it will affect your GPA and dramatically drop it.
Of course as we incredulously lament here, Trump is graded by his supporters on a curve especially made for the demented and delusional narcissist.
Sunday, Apr 30, 2017 · 5:12:47 PM +00:00 · HalBrown
Here’s the transcript.
Some of you have suggested that “take the ‘W’ “ was meant as it is in sports, i.e.. “take the win,” so we could analyze what meaning would Minhaj have intended, which would be funnier.
Since’s he’s talking about golf, which I know nothing about, it may very well refer to taking the win. So in that case let’s see how the joke goes.
Every time Donald Trump goes golfing, the headline should read: “Trump Golfing, Apocalypse Delayed. Take the W.”
Trump is golfing so the end of the world is delayed. Therefore he should continue golfing until he wins. This makes sense if you are familiar with the sports term. I wasn’t.
For me it was more literal with these elements: Trump golfs a lot while the Apocalypse approaches. This is so outlandish, so egregious, and so dangerous that he should withdraw, take the W and resign.
Wishful thinking.
We’d have to ask Minhaj what he meant. I suspect he’d say it was the sports W. For all I know he didn’t know the alternative meaning of the phrase.