Trump to attend first White House Correspondents’ Dinner as president amid ongoing feud with press: Live updates

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President Donald Trump will head to the Washington Hilton hotel this evening for the annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, his first time at the glitzy gala as president.

The Republican broke longstanding norms by skipping the event multiple times in his previous years as president.

Trump suffered a memorable roasting by then-President Barack Obama at the dinner in 2011, and this year’s iteration won’t feature a comedian as MC, as has been typical in past years. Instead, mentalist Oz Pearlman will host the event. Arrivals to the dinner are scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. Eastern time.

Trump’s return to the Correspondents’ Dinner comes as his administration continues to lock horns with the press.

Earlier this week, FBI Director Kash Patel filed a $250 million defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic over a bombshell exposé alleging he drinks excessively and has performed erratically in the job, claims he strongly denies.

The president, meanwhile, frequently demonizes the Washington press, and his Department of Defense attempted to kick the traditional press corps out of the Pentagon.

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ICYMI: Why is Trump coming to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner?

This is what should be the most fun weekend in Washington: the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

And of course, all eyes will be on Donald Trump, who is making his first appearance at the dinner as president of the United States. Much has been made over Trump returning for the first time since he last attended, in 2011, when President Barack Obama and host Seth Meyers ruthlessly mocked him–and possibly spurred him to run for president.

There’s also the fact that instead of a comedian, the evening will feature mentalist Oz Pearlman as emcee.

Many are shocked and chagrined that the Washington press corps would insist on dining with a guy who regularly mocks us, whose Federal Communications Commission threatens to stonewall us, and whose White House took over the press pool. And this is to say nothing of barring the Associated Press from covering the White House for refusing to go along with renaming the Gulf of Mexico to “the Gulf of America.”

Read Eric Garcia’s full story.

Why is Trump coming to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner? Because he needs us

And as much as reporters don’t want to admit it, our actions show we need him too, Eric Garcia writesJosh Marcus

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Hello and welcome to The Independent’s live coverage of tonight’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

After years of battling with the press, and a string of lawsuits against major outlets whose coverage he does not like, Donald Trump is set to return to the dinner for the first time as president.

He broke presidential tradition by skipping past iterations, and the event was canceled multiple times during the height of the Covid pandemic.

We’ll be following all the biggest lines from the D.C. media’s biggest night. Stay tuned.

Josh Marcus

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