White House Correspondents Dinner
White House journalists celebrate First Amendment at annual press dinner
There was no president. There was no comedian. What remained at the White House Correspondents' Association's annual dinner on Saturday night were the journalists and the First Amendment. The stripped-down festivities were a reflection of the sombre tone in Washington at the beginning of President Donald Trump's second term, in which he has battled with the press on multiple fronts and wrested from the correspondents' association the power to decide which outlets have the most access to Trump. Trump's deeper involvement in politics began after then-President Barack Obama roasted the New Yorker's presidential ambitions during the 2011 correspondents' dinner. He skipped the annual gala during his first term, and his absence had been widely expected this year. The association scrapped a scheduled appearance at this year's dinner by comedian Amber Ruffin after she referred to the new administration as kind of a bunch of murderers on a podcast last month. The organization, a nonprofit th
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