After the White House Correspondents’ Association announced it would not welcome a comedian to host its annual gala next year—instead turning the M.C. duties over to renowned biographer Ron Chernow—we knew it was only a matter of time before the president tweeted a response. And on Tuesday night, like clockwork, it happened.

To no one’s surprise, the president used the opportunity to mock Michelle Wolf, whose turn as White House Correspondents’ Dinner host last year quickly ignited controversy. Unfortunately for Donald Trump, Wolf had a blistering comeback that serves as an excellent reminder of why she and her speech succeeded in April.

“So-called comedian Michelle Wolf bombed so badly last year at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner that this year, for the first time in decades, they will have an author instead of a comedian,“ Trump tweeted. “Good first step in comeback of a dying evening and tradition! Maybe I will go?”

Wolf could have pointed out how difficult it is to imagine the president sitting through more than 30 seconds of a historical lecture—but instead, she opted for a darker, more serious response. “I bet you’d be on my side if I had killed a journalist,” the comedian tweeted, condemning Trump’s loyalty to Saudi Arabia—which stands despite intelligence that its crown prince had a journalist killed. She added the hashtag “#BeBest,” a sarcastic reference to Melania Trump’s anti-bullying campaign.

Wolf’s decision to focus on the failings of the Trump administration rather than his personal attack shows why she was the correct choice to host the gala this year—whether the D.C. establishment liked it or not.

The frequently controversial White House Correspondents’ Dinner became a lightning rod again this spring when conservatives and some Washington media lamented Wolf’s scathing set, saying that her jokes went too far. The ire focused particularly on a line about Sarah Huckabee Sanders burning facts and using the ashes “to create the perfect smoky eye.” Rather than standing by Wolf’s set, as many comedians and Wolf herself did, the White House Correspondents’ Association distanced itself from its chosen host, saying her words were “not in the spirit” of its mission.

Trump, who did not attend the dinner for the second year in a row when Wolf hosted, did, of course, take the time to tweet about it, writing, “Everyone is talking about the fact that the White House Correspondents Dinner was a very big, boring bust...the so-called comedian really ‘bombed.’” He later added, “The White House Correspondents’ Dinner was a failure last year, but this year was an embarrassment to everyone associated with it. The filthy ‘comedian’ totally bombed (couldn’t even deliver her lines-much like the Seth Meyers weak performance). Put Dinner to rest, or start over!”

The White House Correspondents’ Association’s decision to turn hosting duties over to Chernow seems to indicate that the organization would like to avoid any such controversies in the future. But comedians have hosted the gala almost every single year for more than three decades—and the decision to change that formula now, in the face of criticism from the White House, is far from inspiring for an organization that claims to champion the First Amendment. As Wolf put it in her response to the announcement earlier this week, “The @whca are cowards. The media is complicit. And I couldn’t be prouder.”