Trump Says He Will End Boycott of White House Correspondents’ Dinner
The mentalist Oz Pearlman is this year’s speaker. “Hopefully, it will be something very Special,” the president wrote on Truth Social.
President Trump announced in a social media post on Monday that he would participate in this year’s black-tie dinner thrown by the White House Correspondents’ Association, which takes place on the last Saturday in April.
This was a surprising development for members of the Washington press corps, since as president, Mr. Trump has made a point of snubbing the dinner, a celebration of the First Amendment thrown by the same journalists he often derides as “enemies of the people.”
But this year, Mr. Trump said on Truth Social, was different.
“In honor of our Nation’s 250th birthday,” he wrote, and because “these ‘Correspondents’ now admit that I am truly one of the Greatest Presidents in the History of our Country, the G.O.A.T.,” he would make it his mission to transform the fusty dinner into “the GREATEST, HOTTEST, and MOST SPECTACULAR DINNER, OF ANY KIND, EVER!”
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