Roy Wood Jr. Jokes About Donald Trump's Scandals During the 2023 White House Correspondents' Dinner

"Donald Trump is the only politician whose scandals got spin-offs on Disney+!" the Daily Show star teased

Comedian Roy Wood Jr. took aim at former President Donald Trump while hosting the White House Correspondents' Association's annual dinner.

The Daily Show star, 44, teased the twice-impeached politician on Saturday night, calling him "the king of scandals" while confessing that "there's too many Trump scandals to keep up with."

"Keeping up with Trump scandals is like watching Star Wars movies. You gotta watch the third one to understand the first one. Then you can't miss the second one 'cause it's got easter eggs for the fifth one," he joked. "Donald Trump is the only politician whose scandals got spin-offs on Disney+!"

Not all scandals have admittedly hit for Wood, however.

"Just for a moment, can we just all acknowledge, can we just all be honest and say that the Trump arrest didn't hit like we thought it was gonna hit. We're so desensitized to scandals now that the Trump arrest didn't do what I thought it was gonna do," he said, comparing the rush to a marijuana high hours later. "The Trump arrest was like a pot brownie you ate 4 hours ago. You're like, 'Do I feel justice? This don't feel like justice!' "

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He went on throw jabs at Republicans and Democrats for how they handled Trump's criminal charges, explaining it "made everybody question what they believe" — with Republicans turning around on their "tough on crime" stance and Democrats backing down from their "we got to abolish prison" platforms.

Wood also joked about how the media went hard on Trump when news broke that he had taken confidential documents from the White House, but backed down on Biden when it was reported he had done the same thing.

"We found out that Joe Biden had documents too and it was like, 'Oh, it's not a big deal. Everybody got documents. Mike Pence got some documents. Ooh, look, a Chinese spy balloon! Ooh!' " Wood said. "Well done, media!"

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Trump became the first former president in U.S. history to answer to criminal charges in March, when he appeared in a Manhattan courtroom to plead not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree following an investigation into an alleged hush money payment he made to adult film star Stormy Daniels while he was a presidential candidate in 2016.

The former Celebrity Apprentice host has a tense history with the White House Correspondents' Dinner that predates his presidency, when he was roasted by then-President Barack Obama at the event in 2011.

"Donald Trump is here tonight," Obama said in his five-minute routine. "And I know he has taken some flak lately. But no one is happier, no one prouder, to put this birth certificate to rest than the Donald. And that's because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter like, Did we fake the moon landing? What really happened in Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac?"

The merciless mocking of Trump that night would continue when comedian Seth Meyers took the stage to say, among other things, "Donald Trump has been saying that he will run for president as a Republican — which is surprising, since I just assumed that he was running as a joke."

In the years since the 2011 dinner, some have speculated that the many jokes lobbed in Trump's direction that night ultimately led him to run for office.

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The annual correspondent's dinner traces back to 1921 and has historically been attended by members of the association as well as high-ranking government officials including the president and first lady.

Under Trump, however, that tradition changed. During the first three years of his term, Trump snubbed the gathering, telling reporters in 2019 that it was "too negative."

His White House also began avoiding the event after Michelle Wolf's turn as emcee in 2018. Like comedians before her, she bluntly mocked several D.C. players including former Trump spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

The 2020 and 2021 WHCA events were canceled, meanwhile, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

But under President Biden, the WHCD has returned to form, so to say. This year, the president, first lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff all attended the dinner — making it the first time each of the four key figures in an administration have been present at the event since 2016, when the Obamas and Bidens both attended. (Prior to that, the president, vice president and their spouses were all in attendance in 2006 and 2009.)

Last year's event was attended, too, by both Dr. Biden and President Biden — who noted that his appearance marked "the first time a president has attended this dinner in six years."

He then took a swipe at his predecessor by joking: "It's understandable. We had a horrible plague, followed by two years of COVID."

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Wood was announced as the host of the annual event in February, saying in a statement at the time, "It's an honor to be a part of a long-running tradition of celebrating those members of the media, who work so hard to uncover the truth, and hold our government accountable. It will be a great night that will go down in the history books, or not, depending on which state you live in."

In an interview with NPR leading up to the event, the comedian said he was anxious and excited about the opportunity.

"It's like Bruce Willis in Armageddon. They go, 'Hey, the asteroid's coming. We need you to ... save the Earth. But with humor. Also, you might die, but ... you have an opportunity to go up there and say some things that matter to people who normally don't get talked to,'" he told the outlet. "You can't say no to that."

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