Trump takes swipes at press during White House Correspondents' Dinner
Trump takes swipes at press during White House Correspondents' Dinner - Published US President Donald Trump took swipes at the media at the White House...
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- Trump takes swipes at press during White House Correspondents' Dinner - Published US President Donald Trump took swipes at the media at the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) dinner, a night celebrating press freedom, after the first event was cancelled by a shooting three months ago.
- Typically the president takes a lighter-hearted tone at the annual dinner, and Trump joked "the second time is always better" and praised the media - saying he respects "most of them".
- In her remarks, WHCA President Weijia Jiang of CBS News said the event would return to the scene of the April shooting, the Washington Hilton, next year.
- "This place [the dinner] is really the largest group of 'Trump derangement syndrome' people ever put together at one time," he said.
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Trump takes swipes at press during White House Correspondents' Dinner - Published US President Donald Trump took swipes at the media at the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) dinner, a night celebrating press freedom, after the first event was cancelled by a shooting three months ago. Typically the president takes a lighter-hearted tone at the annual dinner, and Trump joked "the second time is always better" and praised the media - saying he respects "most of them". In her remarks, WHCA President Weijia Jiang of CBS News said the event would return to the scene of the April shooting, the Washington Hilton, next year. "This place [the dinner] is really the largest group of 'Trump derangement syndrome' people ever put together at one time," he said. "I suspect some of you are lucky that our last dinner was cut short...I was going to go after you." The president joked the news industry would "be broke" after he leaves office because "there's not going to be anybody to report on", before putting on a Trump 2028 hat and saying he would run for another term. Trump has campaigned for president three times, and won two of the elections.