Whitney Cummings’ Donald Trump Sex Trafficking Joke Was Cut From Mark Twain Ceremony on Netflix; Streamer Says Kennedy Center Axed It

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Whitney Cummings performed a comedy set at Bill Maher’s Mark Twain Prize ceremony, which took place on June 28 at the Kennedy Center. But according to the comic, her closing joke won’t be seen in the Netflix broadcast of the event, which streams on July 21.

Cummings said earlier in July that one of her jokes about Donald Trump was cut after she performed it in rehearsal. But on a July 18 episode of her “Good for You” podcast, she revealed that another joke targeting the president, which did make it into her set, will be edited out of the Netflix broadcast. (“Donald Trump couldn’t make it tonight. He got caught in sex traffic,” goes the joke, which nods to the president’s former association with Jeffrey Epstein.)

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