Trump delivers combative, often flat speech at WHCA dinner
There were no airstrikes in Iran last night. Trump was too busy bombing at the WHCA dinner.
Bumbles Bounce13Trump wasn't even funny enough to be considered a strait man.
ℕ𝕒𝕥𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕖 ~ 🌊✌️💙 🇺🇦10Narcissists can tell jokes, but their humor is used as a tool for manipulation rather than connection. Their jokes often feature put-downs, hidden insults, and a lack of emotional reciprocity🎯 Now, this guy ⬇️ 🤣 I refer to him as President Obama 🫶killed it
PhillipUSA7The pedophiles snooze- fest…😴 www.cnn.com/2026/07/25/m...
Emerald Jock 🏴🇮🇪4🤣.....and whilst there he clearly had a serious case of that explosive diahhorea.....from his gob!
Saint Sherman - The Ultimate Patriot3He had plenty of Nazi sympathizers sniffing his diaper all night.
GingerSpice💙1He should get an award for that 🏆
Another example of why I subscribe to Status and so should you. “The result was a public humiliation for the White House Correspondents’ Association.” www.status.news/p/the-white-...
Liberal Donald J. Trump37The White House Correspondents’ Association got PLAYED. They thought if they bent the knee, stayed quiet, and acted like everything was NORMAL, they’d earn respect. Instead they got humiliated in front of the Country. Weakness NEVER wins. A free press doesn’t beg for dignity—it DEMANDS it. SAD!
hippothoughtamus.bsky.social20He would have gleefully locked all the doors and had the place razed with all those reporters in it. And I'm absolutely positive that's not an exaggeration.
johnnyjumpup14White House Correspondents must have a persecution complex. I don't believe any President should be invited to this dinner to start with.
louis8086.bsky.social11Did they hold this press dinner in a public place? I thought it wasn’t safe for him and that is why he needs the Fuhrerbunker?
patrickford.bsky.social10At this time the two most disgusting components of American society are professional sports and the MSM. Sports are the opiate of American society and the MSM is a fascist propaganda operation.
treeesq.bsky.social10Stunned by how many accounts are trying to defend the dinner because Trump was "humiliated."I call BS.They all laughed and applauded when he repeated his election lies and "joked" about seeking a third term (he called it a "fourth term.") It was a threat,not a joke,but these collaborators applauded.
The WHCA Dinner used to be an event at which POTUS was roasted by the press, which ostensibly served the purpose of reminding POTUS of the role of the news media as a check on executive power. Now it is a humiliation ritual for journalists, in which their very presence is evidence of subservience.
FuckTrump🚫👑🐸8It scratches his abuser, sadism kink The performative & public humiliation ritual is how he grooms people and the public. It’s how he normalizes his antisocial behaviors & personality bsky.app/profile/hill...
Russ Copeland6It's absolutely vulgar at this point.
Willie, cosmopolitan elite cowdog4I think it's fair to say that everything we grew up believing about our nation has been usurped by a buncha cucks, pedophiles and rich fucking assholes...
maraleia4It's a thing that never should have taken place to begin with.
Yxuppi!1The press is already subservient. It’s good for them to be humiliated in public alongside the Humiliated-Pooper-in-Chief. I assume that particular bomb didn’t get dropped today. They should have held it on Epstein Island.
Tubbles1I'd respect anyone there who told Trump to go fuck himself loudly, but the class of journalist who goes to those things are all a bunch of lickspittles.
After insisting the correspondents' dinner was worth reviving, the WHCA handed Trump a nationally televised platform to smear the very journalists it exists to represent, effectively turn the stage into a Trump rally. It was a disgrace. My latest @status.news www.status.news/p/the-white-...
Jon Passantino187And here's how it ended, with new WHCA president Jacqui Heinrich of Fox News clapping, smiling, and embracing Trump after an hour of insults.
patfeb55.bsky.social20What made it worthwhile was watching Donnie squirm as award-winning journalists were announced... for writing scathing articles detailing Donnie's lying, incompetence, and corruption. And then he had to shake their hands. Also, the fact that every one of his "jokes" was met with dead silence.
amelbil.bsky.social15Don’t comprehend why *journalists* didn‘t stand up and walk out when he was smearing their compatriots. Go ahead, journos, answer THAT question!
Kim13They really need to feel shame for this. There was no law that made them invite that racist rapist, but they not only did so, they HUGGED him and shook his filthy hand. Embarrassing.
Carl Darwin12How extremely predictable The only thing missing was a snifter at the NYTimes table for nhaling their own farts
The bigger issue is that those journalists and the WHCA like and support Trump. That’s the deeper problem.
Kevin M. Kruse3398You want to know why too many people don't respect the media? It's because the media doesn't respect itself. We're all embarrassed for you. Have some fucking dignity.
Schnorkles O'Bork155One of the problems of the modern political press, beyond the access journalism, is that a lot of them treat this basically like their Met Gala and its effectively the sign that you've "made it."
Asawin Suebsaeng87I have a running list of fellow Asian Americans who piss me catastrophically off who I wouldn’t be able to stop myself from being rude to in person, and………
Zach Everson33Not a fair assessment— It also allowed Trump to model a hat you can buy from his retail store for just $55.
Tyler, from the Internet32everyone that went deserved to be disgraced. they ARE a disgrace. of COURSE that's what happened; that's why no one should have gone. celebrating the capitulation and death of journalism like this was fucking shameful even before they knew how bad it would actually turn out. fuck em all.
Grumpy Auntie Chooses Hope 🩷🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🩵 🟦💙16They laughed at his terrible jokes, and applaud it for him running in 2028. The White House Correspondents Association applauded for a President promising to violate the Constitution over and over again. Stop making George Orwell right, journalists.
Lawrence Hurley15Presumably most people had better things to do on a Friday night
Jason Karsh8And it was beyond predictable. This humiliation ritual was the point from jump and all these journalists who want us to respect their integrity and independence showed up with a smile knowing this would happen.
Kat4Obama4"When you're a star, they let you do it."
Joel Canfield4Why do people keep handing Trump a club to beat them with?
I wonder how many Americans truly understand that corporate media is listening to precisely *none* of the criticisms leveled against it. In a decade of the Trump era, they haven't changed their methods a whit and still don't understand why we see the WHCA dinner as contemptible.
Seth Abramson113No criticism penetrates. They continue to irresponsibly use anonymous sources, privilege access journalism, refuse to cut off sources known to lie, practice bothsidesism, give time to demagogues, air content they know false, conduct ineffectual fact-checking. No self-improvement.
DerMann5117I think they understand completely and don't care. Because the gold rule states: he who has the gold makes the rules.
Ross A. Isaacs15Explain to me how a reporter who makes $2 million per year reporting what their corporate masters want is supposed to turn against Trump. Trump drives ratings. They need access to Trump. Their billionaire bosses support Trump. So they support Trump to keep their salaries and jobs.
Lucifer *Call me Luci15I was sickened seeing the reporters who won award about Epstein were shaking the child rapists hand giggling. Abhorrent. Not one journalist in that room. Honor Integrity PUBLIC TRUST were sacrificed at the door as price of admission for access to power. No going back now. They are complicit. Gross
Elbows Up, eh 🇨🇦12How the fuck do these reporters shake hands with a pedophile who does nothing but humiliate them?
mjmnys.bsky.social7I have enormous respect for reporters - they do hard, essential work and really don't get the credit they deserve. But I'd question the coverage of any journalist who went to the dinner. I don't trust them now.
Trump salutes at the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) Dinner 📸REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
bsassy06.bsky.social159What an absolute knob 🙄
Stay Strong!63He saw himself on the monitor and thought he was a general 🤭
Best Friends44Why, why, why? Presidents are not supposed to salute the flag, The president is merely a civilian, not military.
LeChatNoir29this should have a warning label...OMG the NECKKKKKK
💙 Laura 💙 #8647#16What an idiot. *smdh* He can't go a day without humiliating himself and the country.
StephenB💙8647VoteBlue🇦🇺🇨🇮🇺🇦15What in the blue fuck is he saluting for? He shouldn’t be saluting, ever! Draft dodging twat who insults those who have served & are still serving. Fuck him…🖕🖕🖕🤬
Lindsay Beyerstein18"After Johnny got through basic training, he Was a soldier through and through when he was done Its effects were so well rooted That the next day he saluted A Good Humor man, an usher, and a nun"
😸 Hugo the pink cat 😸17.... Is it silly that this is one of the dumbass annoying things he does that I will be so relieved I will no longer have to see once he [redacted]?
Veronica 🌶️9He is not going to love this angle, LOL
The-Autistic-Artist 🥥 🍀 🏳️🌈 Doomsday and Coyote vs. Acme Era7... Who does he think the salute is for?
Desert Rose6Who the fuck is he saluting? Himself?
nullifie4In Japan, half of this photo is pixelated.
Catincognito skeeting since 07/3/20233He pretends to be a soldier instead of a fucking draft dodger disrespectful asshole
Cassandra, Prophet of Doom-🐧verified32 completely different speeches at the same time. One, authorized on the teleprompter full of gratitude & then Trump went off script for the “2nd speech” where insulted everyone in between the written speech. He is a Narcissistic Sociopath. He is not my President. He is an A$$!
Ken2His neck vulva is growing i think.
judylu.bsky.social2Who the hxll is he saluting? He's out of his mind. 25th amendment NOW.
It is Good that the only people who paid attention to the the WHCA dinner are the president and the people who decided it was OK to go.
MomsThoughts☘️🐶8I have only seen clips from it. The way he humiliated Kaitlin Collins was cruel and very unnecessary and unbecoming. Why would she go? CNN should boycott in the future. Stop doing this to their journalists.
ZLORT!3I saw it was available to watch on Hulu. I decided New England’s summer college baseball league was a better use of my time.
Mike in the Box3Yes, but, everyone is still paying attention to the people who decided it was OK to go, as though they were legitimate journalists. That's not good.
Crystallinda2Idk, I’m conflicted on this. I get not going because you don’t want to legitimize trumps bad behavior, but if the real journalist don’t go, the room would be full of Trump sycophants, like his administration.
Jason S1This is true. As tuned in as I am to the news I didn't even know it was happening until it was being posted about here.
Colleen1It’s weird that no one knew about the dinner. MSM did not report that it was rescheduled. @brianstelter.bsky.social @oliverdarcy.bsky.social
Nate Rathjen4even being as plugged into politics as I am, I didn’t even realize it was last night until I started seeing posts about it lmao
Large Language Matt3i'm willing to make a single concession to the wsj people that were there for the epstein reporting - IF - they said something to the effect of 'thanks for the award bitch' in the handshake line
"Some of the comments flirted with racism," says the Associated Press' story about Trump's White House Correspondents' Dinner speech. I'd say Trump's racism is far more than a flirtation.
Solde53The Associated Press flirted with reporting accurately.
En Buen Ora37it can't be truly racist unless Trump turns to the camera and says "I am being racist right now, saying racist things, with racist intentions, because I am racist", otherwise it's just racially proximate
Spike the Cat20Yeah, trump doesn’t “flirt” He just grabs us by the ***** Coy he isn’t — the racism, sexism right out in the open, and aggressive.
Tarw15Some of their "articles" flirt with journalism.
Chris⚖️Justice14Trump is starting to sound like Milton from Office Space. Nervous stuttering, revisiting insecurities with a vengeance, out of touch
Diana King8CNN said it better: "Trump Bombed"
David Rothkopf614Flirted with racism? Trump's relationship with racism is his only lifelong marriage that worked.
Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling107How very charming. The president’s racism is coquettish.
Amber37Trump flirts with racism in the same way Andrew Tate flirts with toxic masculinity.
pretty bug13gonna be funny watching the professional-media class discover that trump is racist in real time. see also elon musk saying he got "carried away" in politics and rolling back his own racism, it sure seems like everyone is realizing that being "anti-woke" is fucking embarrassing
Strictly 4 My Navigators10"Flirted" How does someone flirt with racism? Do they send it flowers or a tiki torch?
TofuNYC 🏳️🌈🗽🇺🇦 🇬🇱🚫👑🖕🧊3The Nikki Minaj twerk joke felt pretty racist.
seasonally appropriate el 🌞🌡️🌻3Plenty of apt criticisms here so don’t take this as blanket lauding of the article but describing his statements as “rambling” and “insult-filled” in the headline *is* pretty funny
"Flirted with"? Please. They're picking out curtains.
Gerard Cunningham2Frequently struck by the chasm between the preening of the self-proclaimed defenders of freedom, and actual American journalism.
Catherine E. Cullen2Trump’s racism is MUCH MORE than a flirtation. In fact, Trump and racism have been happily married just about forever!
Trump humiliated himself with that terrible White House Correspondence Dinner speech. Jokes fell flat, nobody laughed, he rambled incoherently, and it was overall cringey. Total disaster.
Sandradny11Too bad there were no independent journalists in attendance to report on it.
JustSayin5AND THEN THERE IS THIS 💙 www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLgY...
ngmh.bsky.social4To be fair, everyone who attended humiliated themselves by being there with him.
kat b fisher 🏳️🌈4And he absolutely thought he was gonna kill it like President Obama.
vanala.bsky.social3Don't forget that he fell asleep, and awards were given for exposing his corruption, so not a total loss.
Kristy Harms3Except: he won’t have any idea what a failure he had at the event. Tone deaf narcissist.
All of this occurring while Trump was speaking at WHCA dinner, likely a message
Kevin 🍅🥫22Like a reverse bin-Laden raid
jetblackbox19Iran has this planned out so that gas hits $6 per gallon two weeks before the midterm election.
Changed_Display_Name_Again7So another whole war between SA and Houthis seems inevitable after this. Bad news for Red Sea shipping. If this keeps up we will see oil break 100 early next week.
Dee Mack3Trump laughs about his birthday card he sent to Epstein. They both raped little girls. bsky.app/profile/ddia...
Albert Hubble1So they will sink another 100 Tomahawks into some desert huts in Jemen like they did some months ago with zero impact on safety.
Charlie Sykes' exit take on last night's WHCA dinner: "They should have walked out." open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
Jeff Blattner19They never should've walked in.
🇨🇦👠OhHellNoCanada👠🇨🇦6Of course they should have walked out. They shouldn't have attended in the 1st place. But it's the U.S., the self sabotaging country we are talking about. Suckers for punishment
I like beer6They shouldn't have walked in.
Leslie Talbot4Or, they should have not invited him at all and stayed true to the event’s original purpose, which was honoring fellow journalists.
milsma.bsky.social3They should have accepted the tickets but not shown up. Empty seats would have been meaningful
EuphoricFuzion🕯️2Whoever watched and gave that schmuck any ratings was an idiot. Anyone who went is now covered in shit for the rest of their careers. It's astonishing to me how CASUALLY these alleged "Champions of Truth" are treating the end of the First Amendment, along with all of American Democracy.
“After months of insisting the dinner was worth reviving in the name of the First Amendment … the organization instead handed Trump a nationally televised platform to demean the very journalists it exists to represent,” @passantino.bsky.social writes. www.status.news/p/the-white-...
🇨🇦👠OhHellNoCanada👠🇨🇦4Self sabotaging and weak people. Suckers for punishment. Total idiots and all are ENABLERS at this point
lesliead717.bsky.social3An embarrassment for everyone in that room and our country
Traveller233Don’t worry. Nobody watched it.
ksrnow2The WHCA so called dinner was a major embarrassment to their profession, the country, and the world. The WHCA is broken.
Otis Redfoot2The best parts were when he was asleep.
web_rant1CBS's Weijia Jiang as WHCA head handed Trump a nationally televised platform to demean the very journalists it exists to represent. bsky.app/profile/oliv...
“The White House Correspondents’ Disgrace The WHCA sought to reconvene its annual dinner in celebration of press freedom. Instead, it handed Donald Trump a platform to attack the very journalists the organization exists to represent.” www.status.news/p/the-white-...
Staid Winnow7They deserve the self-inflicted humiliation.
Uncle Mak’s Farm ⭕️7What media? The attendees laughing were all mouthpieces for Trump’s propaganda. They were not journalists. They were all CBS and Fox blow hards.
cdnpaints7It was pretty bad. I did appreciate the award winners but if I had received one I don’t think I could have shook the hand of DJT. I have a bad habit of being that way. Can’t show respect where it is undeserved.
Trump/GOP=N@zis. Stand w🇺🇦🏳️🌈🇬🇪🇵🇸🇨🇦🇪🇺🇨🇭7The collaborationists always pay in the end.
Spicymixofsweet6This is what they get, trump has been given "news" platforms to spread his propaganda message with no pushback! The journalists rode his coattails to gain access and airtime.
EDP5He wore the fucking baseball cap?
