Because no one disobeys Trump, will Trump send a hall monitor to the WHCA dinner on Saturday night. Ordering staff to not attend a private event that they can attend on their own time is one of those overreach items that shouldn’t require Trump to have Secret Service check on WHCA attendance.
Meanwhile Trump will be in Wisconsin doing another ego-fest rally.
OTOH there’s a counter-WHCA dinner presented by TBS’s Full Frontal and Samantha Bee.
Trump has skipped the dinner three years in a row, breaking with past presidents who attended the annual soirée and fundraiser in a show of comity with news outlets.
On the same morning he reportedly issued the order, Trump unleashed a torrent of criticism against media organizations’ coverage of his presidency, calling MSNBC’s morning program “Morning Psycho (Joe)," saying New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is “stupid” and calling on the paper to “get down on their knees” and apologize to him.
In a sign the relationship may have been thawing, staff were permitted to attend last year’s dinner after being barred from it during Trump’s first year in office. But tensions flared once again after comedian Michelle Wolf roasted White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders while she sat at the head table on stage.
Changes were made to this year’s dinner in response to criticism of the 2018 event. Historian Ron Chernow, who penned the biography of Alexander Hamilton that inspired the hit Broadway musical, will address dinner guests rather than a comedian.
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In other idiocy, John Cornyn, who favorably quoted Mussolini, thinks comedians’ blue material will discredit his future opponent(s).