Within hours, the Correspondents’ Association issued a statement saying the dinner is meant to celebrate “our common commitment to a vigorous and free press while honoring civility, great reporting and scholarship winners” and saying Wolf’s monologue "was not in the spirit of that mission.”

Cole Allen, 30, of California was identified as the suspect who opened fire outside the White House Correspondents' dinner.

Jimmy Kimmel delivered his own, alternative to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner comedy monologue, with scathing jokes about Donald Trump, his wife Melania and the president’s White House team. In his monologue on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday,