Trump swipes at journalists at White House Correspondents' Dinner
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President Trump spoke to journalists at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, months after an armed security breach led to the event's rescheduling and downscaling. The president offered jokes, insults and compliments to members of the press during the dinner.
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More than 500 veteran and former journalists have signed on to a letter calling on the White House Correspondents’ Association to speak out on the Trump administration’s attacks on journalists and press freedom when he attends its rescheduled dinner on Friday.
Hundreds of former or retired journalists and eight press freedom groups have called on the White House Correspondents’ Association to stand up against the Trump administration’s recent attacks on the press at its rescheduled dinner this week. President Donald Trump…
What would it take for the White House Correspondents’ Association to withdraw its invitation to President Donald Trump to attend and speak at its annual dinner on Friday? The event theoretically functions as “a celebration of a free press and the vital role of journalism in our democracy” — two thi…
More than 500 journalists signed a letter urging the WHCA to publicly condemn President Donald Trump's press attacks from the podium at the rescheduled dinner.
President Trump is expected to reappear at the rescheduled White House Correspondents' Association Dinner on Friday, almost three months after a gunman breached the event in an alleged assassination attempt against him.
President Donald Trump is expected to deliver remarks at Friday night's dinner, which is being held at the Waldorf Astoria in Washington, D.C., instead of the Washington Hilton.
U.S. President Donald Trump salutes during the National Anthem at the re-scheduled White House Correspondents Dinner in the Presidential Ballroom at the Waldorf Astoria on July 24, 2026 in Washington, DC.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, first lady Melania Trump, President Donald Trump and CBS News senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang attend the White House Correspondents’ dinner at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C., on April 25, 2026.
President Donald Trump will address the White House Correspondents’ Association at a rescheduled dinner on Friday, nearly three months after a shooting at the Washington Hilton hotel interrupted the event.
Call it White House Dinner 2.0, or Take Two, or, in Trump's own words, a "HOT ticket." The big unknown is whether Trump will bring the fighting words against the press he'd planned to deliver in April — before the event descended into chaos when a gunman stormed a security checkpoint, forcing an eva…
WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump is set to attend the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Friday night, months after the event was derailed by a would-be assassin in April.
A gunman stormed Trump's White House Correspondents' Dinner in April and tried to kill him. Now hundreds of journalists want that same room to become a hit job of a different
Outgoing president of the White House Correspondents' Association, Weijia Jiang, spoke at the dinner attended by journalists, politicians, and President Trump on Friday night. The event was rescheduled after a shooting attack disrupted the original dinner in April.
Three months after a gunman upended the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, guests at the rescheduled event arrived Friday to markedly tighter security, a much smaller guest list, a more relaxed dress code — and expectations of a confrontational presidential speech teased by his press se…
The event was moved to the Waldorf Astoria and had about a quarter of the attendees of the event in April, which was interrupted when a gunman attempted to enter the ballroom and attack officials.
President Donald Trump attended his first-ever White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, with this year’s rescheduled gala held Friday evening in Washington, D.C., and delivered some pointed remarks to the assembled journalists in a rambling speech that stretched on for just over an hour — and…
After a gunman ended the annual dinner in April, a scaled-down version of the traditional springtime celebration of the First Amendment was held Friday night.
President Trump used his speech at Friday's rescheduled White House Correspondents' Association Dinner to condemn the political violence that postponed the annual event — and in the next breath attack and insult the gathered press.
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