Correspondents Dinner Will Be Different This Year
In this April 30, 2011, photo, Donald Trump arrives for the White House Correspondents Dinner in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
President Trump plans to end his yearslong absence from the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner and attend this year’s event on April 25. In a post Monday on his Truth Social platform, Trump said he would go “in honor of our Nation’s 250th Birthday,” noting that journalists now recognize him as “one of the Greatest Presidents” and the “G.O.A.T.” He added that he aims to make the dinner the “greatest” and “most spectacular” of its kind, according to The Hill. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt shared the announcement on X, adding, “Will be fun!”
Trump’s previous decision to skip the dinner broke with a long-standing tradition of sitting presidents attending as honorees. The last time he appeared was in 2015, before his election. He was also the target of pointed jokes by then-President Obama at the 2011 dinner over Trump’s promotion of the false “birther” claim about Obama’s birthplace. This year may bring fewer jabs: Mentalist Oz Pearlman, rather than a comedian, will host, The Guardian notes.
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