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D.C. Media’s Gridiron Dinner Features A Toast To The First Amendment — And Not To The President
With Donald Trump waging a war on the news media, one of D.C. media’s longest running dinner events ended the night by toasting the First Amendment, bypassing the traditional nod to the president of the United States. The annual Gridiron Club dinner, which dates to the 1880s, also was notable for the lack of Trump […]
This year, the only cabinet official at the Grand Hyatt event was Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Scott Turner, who was joined by Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman and Janette Nesheiwat, the nominee for surgeon general. On Friday, Trump spoke to the Justice Department and declared that CNN and MSNBC’s reporting was “illegal,” while he moved to dismantle U.S.-funded broadcast entities like Voice of America. That’s a contrast to the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner next month, a televised event that typically featured the president delivering standup material followed by a real comic.
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