Presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., lampooned herself during Saturday’s Gridiron dinner, using her keynote speech to address reports she mistreats her staff.
The Democratic 2020 contender has spent much of the past month since announcing her White House bid responding to the reports, including how she once made an aide clean a comb with which she ate a salad after he forgot to bring her a fork.
“How did everyone like the salad? I thought it was OK, but it needed just a bit of scalp oil and a pinch of dandruff, would be a little better,” Klobuchar asked the dinner guests Saturday night at the Renaissance Washington Hotel in Washington, D.C.
The annual Gridiron dinner, now in its 134th year, is similar to the event hosted by White House Correspondents’ Association where media figures mingle with government officials and mock each other through a series of lighthearted speeches. Klobuchar represented Democrats at the 2019 gala, while Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., attended as her Republican foil.
Klobuchar also joked that Gridiron Club president Jerry Seib, who also serves as the Wall Street Journal’s executive editor, asked her whether she needed a microphone or if she preferred to just yell at the audience.
“I said microphone,” she said.
White House senior adviser Ivanka Trump, President Trump’s eldest daughter, was the administration’s emissary. She apologized for her father’s absence.
“The opportunity to poke fun at the media is not something that he passes up lightly,” Trump said.
