--- title: White House Correspondents Dinner: Hasan Minhaj Ribbed Trump description: Comedian Hasan Minhaj did not spare President Trump at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner canonical: https://time.com/4760719/white-house-correspondents-dinner-hasan-minhaj/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-30T05:32:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:40:16.708Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Comedian Hasan Minhaj Skewer President Trump at the White House Correspondents Dinner og:description: "The leader of our country is not here. That’s because he lives in Moscow." og:url: https://time.com/4760719/white-house-correspondents-dinner-hasan-minhaj/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt90660e62ff7c760c/6988cb48656a3f43eabcfc65/trump11.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Donald Trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Comedian Hasan Minhaj Skewer President Trump at the White House Correspondents Dinner twitter:description: "The leader of our country is not here. That’s because he lives in Moscow." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt90660e62ff7c760c/6988cb48656a3f43eabcfc65/trump11.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Comedian Hasan Minhaj Skewer President Trump at the White House Correspondents Dinner by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Apr 30, 2017 5:32 AM CUT  President Trump walks across the South Lawn as he arrives at the White House in Washington, on April 28, 2017. President Trump walks across the South Lawn as he arrives at the White House in Washington, on April 28, 2017.Andrew Harnik—AP by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Apr 30, 2017 5:32 AM CUT Comedian Hasan Minhaj did not spare President Trump at the annual [White House Correspondents Dinner](http://time.com/4760712/white-house-correspondents-dinner-journalists/ "undefined"). Though the comic headliners of the annual journalism fundraiser have typically bruised the president with their monologues, they have also done so while standing within feet of the commander in chief. Minhaj, a correspondent on “The Daily Show,” was freed from that constraint by Trump, who chose to [skip the annual dinner](http://time.com/4760560/donald-trump-100-days-profound-change/ "undefined") for [the first time in 36 years](http://www.npr.org/2017/02/25/517257273/trump-will-be-first-president-in-36-years-to-skip-white-house-correspondents-din "undefined"), and he took delight in it. “The leader of our country is not here,” he said. “That’s because he lives in Moscow, it’s a very long flight.” See a brief video of Minhaj’s best moments above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4760719/white-house-correspondents-dinner-hasan-minhaj/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4760719/white-house-correspondents-dinner-hasan-minhaj/"},"headline":"Watch Comedian Hasan Minhaj Skewer President Trump at the White House Correspondents Dinner","datePublished":"2017-04-30T05:32:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:40:16.708Z","description":"Comedian Hasan Minhaj did not spare President Trump at the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner","url":"https://time.com/4760719/white-house-correspondents-dinner-hasan-minhaj/","keywords":["White House"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt90660e62ff7c760c/6988cb48656a3f43eabcfc65/trump11.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt90660e62ff7c760c/6988cb48656a3f43eabcfc65/trump11.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump","caption":"Donald Trump","creditText":"Andrew Harnik—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4760719/white-house-correspondents-dinner-hasan-minhaj/","name":"Watch Comedian Hasan Minhaj Skewer President Trump at the White House Correspondents Dinner"}}]}] ```