Comedian: My Trump Sex Trafficking Joke Got Cut

Whitney Cummings says the joke she really wanted in the Mark Twain Prize broadcast is the one viewers won't hear. On her Good for You podcast, Cummings said a punchline tying President Trump to "sex traffic"—a nod to his past association with Jeffrey Epstein—was cut from the Netflix version of the Kennedy Center ceremony honoring Bill Maher, even though she performed it onstage. The joke went thusly, per the New York Times:

• "I actually heard Trump may have even wanted to come tonight, but he couldn't make it—he got caught in sex traffic," she said, adding, "They did tell me not to say that."

"While it's our preference not to cut jokes from anyone's set, the Kennedy Center has the contractual right to do so," a Netflix rep tells Variety. Cummings later stressed online that "Netflix did not cut anything from my Mark Twain prize set." She called it ironic to be censored at an event celebrating "fearless" political humor, noting that another Trump joke about racism did make the cut. "I am so clear now that when somebody gets offended by something, they are guilty of the thing," Cummings said of Trump.