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Why I’m boycotting the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Donald Trump is set to attend, but no dinner speech can redeem his abusive treatment of reporters

Published April 24, 2026 9:30AM (EDT)

Donald Trump is the greatest human to ever populate the planet — at least as he tells it. And he has a great plan, whatever it is at any given moment to satisfy wherever his latest whim has taken him. 

This weekend it will take him to the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner for the first time as president, where he’ll be sure to remind the audience of increasingly friendly and compliant reporters — softened by buyouts and diluted by right-wing propagandists posing as independent reporters — of his greatness.

Trump has refused every invitation from the White House Correspondents Association since his first administration. He has mostly avoided the event since then-President Barack Obama skewered him at the 2011 dinner for promoting the infamous “birther” conspiracy. (The last time Trump attended was in 2015 as he was preparing to run for president.)

When Trump refused his invitation in 2017, Comedy Central’s Hasan Minhaj, serving as host, channeled his inner Don Rickles as he roasted the newly-elected president. “Even the president is not beyond the reach of the First Amendment. But the president didn’t show up because Donald Trump doesn’t care about free speech,” Minhaj said. “The man who tweets everything that enters his head refuses to acknowledge the amendment that allows him to do it.” Trump simply said he didn’t have time to spend with the “fake news” media.

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