Trump says White House Correspondents' Dinner will resume Saturday
President Donald Trump declared the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington will resume Saturday, saying "LET THE SHOW GO ON" after shots were fired at the event. Authorities apprehended a suspect and evacuated attendees while investigators worked at the scene. The shooting interrupted Trump's high-profile appearance at the annual press gala and renews scrutiny of security at political and media events.
PS. Don’t know who needs to hear this, but it’s not Trump’s dinner, nor is it his decision, to reschedule…
Nor is this incident proof of the need for a ballroom
Well to be fair those to whom the dinner belongs to, placate him and will simply hand him the reigns
Just about his entire administration was at the dinner. Why?
He thinks it's a dinner in his honor. Or that's what he wants to make it to further corrupt the media.
It is MSM who has allowed trump to suck all the oxygen out of the room. So, it’s the trump’s dinner. Maybe try treating him like the criminal he is.
What I don’t understand is why were 3 people in line of succession at the same event? Vance, Johnson and Rubio and Trump? Something doesn’t make sense!
Its a charming thought that the White House Correspondents would defy his wishes, but that would imply a level of independence they certainly haven't demonstrated
Did you really think the fawning and compliant Weijia Jiang was gonna question this? And again, before all the fun began last night, could she have been more obsequious when she thanked Karoline Leavitt profusely for "working with" them (she also name-checked Bari Weiss. She knows her career track)
No but the CBS crew “headlining” will make sure his desires are met. He has to return for that fake “nothing scares me” act. So disappointed in those that did attend last night. Even some from MSNOW. wtf
I wish White House Correspondents' Association president Weijia Jiang would say that.
He obviously imagines it otherwise, that just like Mar-a-Lago, he's the host and party-planner, and they're his guests, rather than the other way around.
How do they sit in the room with a Pedophile like it’s just another day? Disappointed in the ones I thought would surely not attend but did.
Or put it in his still-mythical ballroom
You're right Katie, and i think we'll find out he planned this fiasco!! What did he talk about last night? THE BALLROOM!!!
You don’t need to change the dinner…change the president. Remember this happened during Nixon admin & we restored peace & sanity after he was paid millions to go away
You haven’t been paying attention Katie. This ghoul says jump and they say how high?
Considering everyone in that room is basically bought and paid for- May as well be?
Thank you Katie! But this is HIS world we are living in right now- no boundaries, no accountability, NOTHING!
Might as well be. I don’t think there is a single spine among any of the so called journalists in attendance.
It’s his everything The world turns around him because your former colleagues adore him the way they worship the almighty dollar. Without him they are nothing Without them he’d be nothing
It’s a jack off session for journalists nobody gaf! It’s as bad as the Academy Awards
Trump is like the seagulls in Finding Nemo. Mindlessly squawking “mine, mine” at anything he desires and would aggrandize him.
Don't they have a correspondence dinner like every year or something? It's very easy for literally anyone to plan around.
In his demented view, he sees his status as a "king," who can do no wrong, and who always "wins" in a self-constructed universe where everything resolves around himself. Chronic mental illness.
But he just commandeered it as he does everything and no one is going to stop him. It’s going to be called the Trump Correspondents Dinner from here on out.
Again not talking about other news but the WHCD. They are redirecting focus again. Affordability, Epstein files, Iran war, blowing up boats in the Caribbean, no healthcare. Think about that.
Apparently the head traitor thinks everything belongs to him. After all, Congress and the Supreme Court gifted him the entire country. Now, he just wants to micro-manage every darn thing...
Thank you, Katie Phang! He's just always so filled with his own demented bullshit.
Like anybody in MSM would say no?
Why does he want to reschedule ... so he can stage another shooting? ... get better camera angles? www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkgh...
Maybe this will give the journalists who were in attendance a chance to reconsider whether they should be there at all, yucking it up with Trump and his vile minions.
But the WHCA will never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity
Oh but you need a plan for the next staging
Also…. Since this was not HIS dinner, even if he HAD his golden ballroom, it still would have been held at a hotel.
In a month when they reschedule these so-called journalists will not carry those pocket squares but will have fuhrer salutes and non-stop clapping. That's what this narcissist wants and he will get it.
The thing is, it IS his dinner. The media gave it to him and good luck getting it back.
Why doesn’t the media tell trump to eff off; he was given a chance as an honoree but blew it with his childish ruse. Or reschedule the WHCD but don’t invite him, as should have happened last night. The media was to honor an anti-democracy fascist who shits in the First Amendment every day. Unreal.
Thank you Katie! This has been irking me. His absolute need to own everything and everyone is tiresome.
All media loves DJT professionally. I hate to say it, but it's clearly true. The boost that he gives social posts, news articles, podcasts, and so on, is a reporters wet dream. Articles and posts either appalling or boosting his cruelty get clicks and ad revenue. The media lives and dies on ratings.
Trump will make it be held at Mar a Lago and charge a fortune. Wolf Blitzer will still attend.
30 years ago I was in a Frontline documentary on how WHCA dinner was distillation of insider-ism at core of "savvy" DC coverage. I published a book (Breaking the News) on similar theme back at that time. HST was making the point 20+ years earlier!
When David Halberstam died (last week was 19 years ago) a couple of the obituaries I read noted that he refused to live in DC and despised the social circuit that regularly brought journalists and the people they were ostensibly covering together.
When Bill Clinton was pres, Chris Matthews held a Town Hall show in Little Rock about how awful the politics in Arkansas were. I got in his face/talked about the reality of Washington politics. I told him the Washington press should be required to spend 6 months a year in the middle of the country.
Addresses in This Town by Mark Leibovich too. That what first opened my eyes to that culture.
Joan Didion wrote about this, as well.
remarkable how much "the daily howler" guy got right about that era back in real time. maybe that's why everyone ignored him.
Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 chronicles this perfectly.
I remember Breaking the News! Read it at the same time as William Grieder's Who Will Tell the People
I think a lot about the scene(s) in Almost Famous where the Lester Bangs character warns the Cameron Crowe character about the dangers of getting too close to the people they write about, and not falling into the trap of thinking you’re “one of them.” Solid advice for any journalist.
God, I miss HST something fierce. 😭
In attendance at the WHCA dinner: The president VP Sec. of State Sec. of Defense Acting AG FBI chief And other high-ranking WH officials In a basement ballroom of a hotel that was, outside the ballroom, open to the public. So, serious question: Who was the designated survivor?
No problem, Chuck Grassley is next in line after the VP and Speaker of the House and no doubt he'd be ready to step right up as he's only 92 and no more senile than the current President.
At least one alt history of this event is Linda McMahon becoming President of the United States and I cannot overstate how insane that would be.
Also Mike Johnson, so I’m assuming chuck grassley stayed home so he’d be president if the hotel blew up?
Did you see the video from Getty images? They got Vance out first. What’s that about? Trump sat like a sitting duck—remember, in the precious seconds before they knew if there was 1 shooter of 10. www.gettyimages.com/detail/video...
That weirdo, Mike Johnson was also there… Isn’t he third in the line of succession?
So they totally "knew" the outcome. Staged event. Free pass-- out of Hormuz, Epstein and cratering poll numbers. Orban's ppl tried this before the election. Butler. They don't even bother to change the plot.
Just for the record, the order of succession: VP Speaker of the House President Pro Temp of the Senate Secretaries of State - Treasury - Defense Attorney General Secretaries of the Interior - Agriculture - Commerce - Labor - HHS - HUD -Transportation - Energy - Education - Vet Affairs - Homeland
Plus Speaker of the house... who's #2 behind Vance. So thats a damn good question.
I thought they weren't even supposed to be together like that
Will Smith and the Secretary of Agriculture to the rescue
Is it normal for so many high ranking to go to this dinner?
wait people are legit asking for sympathy for the journalists from politico and the ny post getting traumatized at the WHCA dinner motherfucker please spend an hour in gaza or lebanon
Or any of the zillions of high schools where this occurs.
fucking thoughts and prayers i'm so sorry a crazy person showed up at the nazi party, miss riefenstahl and lord haw haw
Or in the Dilley TX immigration detention center, for that matter.
Trump's Regime has the last laugh. This was staged to get the media to talk about it for the coming week. Once again, the Secret Service was mysteriously asleep at the wheel just like in the Butler, PA stunt. And why were his entire Cabinet people there?
This is just what it's like to be an American. They're invited to suck it up.
The ass kissers deserve no sympathy.