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Comedian Michelle Wolf attends the Celebration After

Happy Monday, OP fam. We're here today because everyone has SO. MANY. FEELINGS.

And we're going to tell you all about them. Because this is OnPolitics Today, and it's what we do best. Subscribe here.

So, what did YOU think of Saturday night?

If you somehow haven't heard, comedian Michelle Wolf told jokes at this past weekend's White House Correspondents' Association dinner.

And, depending on who you talk to, she was absolutely awful or she killed it or she should apologize.

In particular, Wolf was knocked for her comments on Sarah Sanders, from comparing the White House press secretary to a character from The Handmaid's Tale to joking Sanders burns facts to create the perfect smoky eye.

Some conservatives argued Wolf was merely mean and unfunny.

"The WHCA was so rattled that it pulled the pin on its little comedy grenade and threw the pin at Trump. It held onto the grenade and it blew up in its face," wrote the National Review's Kyle Smith.

And some liberals described Wolf as "speaking truth to power."

"But as soon as a comic does his or her job too well and uses comedy to speak a truth that could jeopardize the press's attempt to befriend the political players they cover, reporters put away their cellphone cameras and cry, 'Who invited such a rude woman?'" comedian Andy Conover wrote for The New York Times.

As for the people who actually invited Wolf to speak? WHCA President Margaret Talev said of the performance, " "Last night's program was meant to offer a unifying message about our common commitment to a vigorous and free press while honoring civility, great reporting and scholarship winners, not to divide people. Unfortunately, the entertainer's monologue was not in the spirit of the mission."

It's another Stormy Monday

There's someone else who had to share what their thoughts on Monday, albeit in a more official format: Stormy Daniels, the porn star behind the lawsuit that would allow her to end a hush agreement over her alleged affair with President Trump.

Daniels is back with another lawsuit, this time claiming defamation against Trump.

Specifically, the president accused Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, and her lawyer of a "con job" after they released a sketch of a man they claimed threatened Daniels to keep quit about her tryst with Trump. The president tweeted his accusation, as he is wont to do: "A sketch years later about a nonexistent man," Trump tweeted. "A total con job, playing the Fake News Media for Fools (but they know it)!"

The lawsuit calls Trump's tweet "false and defamatory."

"Mr. Trump used his national and international audience of millions of people to make a false factual statement to denigrate and attack Ms. Clifford," it said.

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