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White House Correspondents’ Dinner Flies First Amendment Flag High Even With Trump Snub, Few Hollywood Power Players In Attendance
There was no POTUS, no VP at the 2025 WHCD but the Constitution was very much in attendance tonight in DC
Even with short lived ex-White House press secretary Sean Spicer and CNN vet Frank Sesno holding down the fort on C-SPAN and MSNBC broadcasting the gathering entrée to dessert with commentary from Molly Jong-Fast and others, the vibe was very low-key. At the same time, with POTUS just back from Pope Francis’ funeral and up at his New Jersey estate, the MAGA crowd were holding their own shindig across town at the Willard Hotel with the debut of the Donald Trump Jr co-founded Executive Branch private club and its $100,000 membership fee far from the eyes of the press. In a quickly acclaimed speech, outgoing WHCA leader Daniels summed up the state of the media in America by evoking the months the Wall Street Journal’s Evan Gershkovich spent behind bars in Russia and added that “attacks on journalists don’t stop at our borders.”
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