Media Correspondents Dinner
FILE - Attendees gather during White House Correspondents Association Dinner prior to a security incident, April 25, 2026, in Washington.
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When guests arrive for the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association dinner at Washington’s Waldorf Astoria hotel, security will be much tighter. The guest list will be smaller Friday. The partying will be pared down. That much, the correspondents’ association can control. What remains out of its control is what the dinner’s most prominent guest, President Donald Trump, will bring to the table. The big unknown is whether the Republican president will bring the fighting words against the press he’d planned to deliver in April. That was before the event descended into chaos when a gunman stormed a security checkpoint, forcing an evacuation of the room.
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