President Trump, who normally skips the White House Correspondents Dinner, will be in attendance tomorrow night and White House Press Secretary says his speech will be very good.
The garbage media press, however, are outrage that he’s actually showing up this time.
Here’s what the Independent wrote yesterday:
“This is sort of a critical moment for these dinners and it will be interesting to see what happens going forward,” said former ABC News reporter Lisa Stark.She and longtime colleague Ian Cameron have circulated a petition urging journalists at Saturday’s event to “speak forcefully” in defense of the press with Trump in attendance.
Dan Rather and former ABC White House reporter Sam Donaldson are among more than 350 former journalists to sign. Reporters have talked about a visible protest like lapel pins touting the First Amendment.
“The only thing more insulting for the press than Trump not coming is Trump coming,” Kelly McBride, NPR ombudsman and head of the Poynter Institute’s ethics and leadership center, wrote last week.
“This man mocks you, sues you, and targets you for prosecution,” former Associated Press White House reporter Ron Fournier wrote on Substack. He detailed a list on Trump’s actions against the press, finishing with: “and you’re having dinner with him?” The top editor at HuffPost — a news website clearly hostile to Trump — said its journalists wouldn’t attend Saturday as a protest.
The president of the WHCA, CBS News’ Weijia Jiang, had no immediate comment. But Todd Gilman, a former White House bureau chief for the Dallas Morning News and now a journalism professor for Arizona State University, suggested it wasn’t the press’ role to make news itself by snubbing Trump. The president will make news either way depending on what he says there, he said.
President Trump pushes back against a very leftist DNC press corp, and for that he’s a pariah to them. Sure, he goes too far sometimes, but these reporters deserve every bit of it. Just look at the difference in how they treated Trump in his first administration and now, versus how they treated Joe Biden. These people are a joke.
Apparently so many of them are outraged that they aren’t even showing up. There’s an entire litany of big names who are boycotting, but who the hell cares. I’ll be a better event without them.
https://therightscoop.com/awesome-trump-to-attend-the-correspondents-dinner-and-the-press-is-outraged/
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