President Trump Roasts Media at Rescheduled, Paired-Down White House Correspondents’ Dinner
President Trump appeared at the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, which took place in Washington, D.C. on Friday with a new...
Key points
- President Trump appeared at the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, which took place in Washington, D.C.
- on Friday with a new location and a drastically reduced list of attendees, following the cancellation of the event in April after a gunman fired shots as the event was underway.
- The awards were handed out; mentalist Oz Pearlman, who got just one private trick for the White House press secretary at the first dinner before gunshots caused chaos, returned to deliver some levity; and ahead of the event, a group of hundreds of former journalists and press freedom groups sent a letter to the WHCA.
- Traditionally, the dinner’s speeches are a roast of the attendees and the president himself.
What happened
President Trump appeared at the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, which took place in Washington, D.C. on Friday with a new location and a drastically reduced list of attendees, following the cancellation of the event in April after a gunman fired shots as the event was underway. The awards were handed out; mentalist Oz Pearlman, who got just one private trick for the White House press secretary at the first dinner before gunshots caused chaos, returned to deliver some levity; and ahead of the event, a group of hundreds of former journalists and press freedom groups sent a letter to the WHCA. Traditionally, the dinner’s speeches are a roast of the attendees and the president himself. “The attempted mass murder at the Washington Hilton — that’s what it could have been — was an assault on our democracy itself,” Trump said. Trump’s first joke to fall completely flat came soon and involved a rapper and MAGA convert who he recently had at a White House event.