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Here’s how Trump can throw the White House Correspondents’ Dinner for a loop

The White House Correspondents’ Dinner is usually a predictable affair: Journalists and celebrities gather to reinforce their credentials as powerful insiders who should be the ones running the country.

This year’s dinner, set for Saturday in Washington, DC, is likely to be something quite different from previous gatherings of media elites.

That’s because President Donald Trump, accompanied by first lady Melania, says he will attend — after snubbing the event throughout his first term, and last year as well.

This dinner could be unique, even unsettling, because of a letter recently signed by more than 250 journalists calling on the dinner’s organizers “to forcefully demonstrate opposition” to the presidential guest of honor, due to “President Trump’s efforts to trample freedom of the press.”

The letter reads, in part: “We believe the White House Correspondents Association should take stronger action by issuing — from the podium — a forceful defense of freedom of the press and........

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