WATCH LIVE: Trump attends White House Correspondents' Dinner for 1st time as president

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WATCH LIVE: Trump attends White House Correspondents' Dinner for 1st time as president

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The seeming incongruity of President Donald Trump's expected attendance at an event that honors the press has brought renewed scrutiny to the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, a fixture on. This cluster currently includes 4 articles from 3 sources.

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This cluster currently includes 4 articles from 3 sources. Sources in this event include PBS NewsHour, NBC News, The Guardian US.

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WATCH LIVE: Trump attends White House Correspondents' Dinner for 1st time as president
PBS NewsHour
PBS NewsHour
Lean Left
4/24/2026

WATCH LIVE: Trump attends White House Correspondents' Dinner for 1st time as president

David Bauder, Associated Press David Bauder, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The seeming incongruity of President Donald Trump's expected attendance at an event that honors the press has brought renewed scrutiny to the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, a fixture on Washington's spring social.

4 things to watch at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
PBS NewsHour
PBS NewsHour
Lean Left
4/24/2026

4 things to watch at the White House Correspondents' Dinner

This year's White House Correspondents' Dinner will be weird. It's the first that President Donald Trump has attended as president — a full circle return to the moment that some believe pushed him into running for the Oval Office to begin with: when former President Barack Obama joked about Trump from the stage in.

Trump set to attend his first White House Correspondents' Dinner as president
NBC News
NBC News
Lean Left
4/25/2026

Trump set to attend his first White House Correspondents' Dinner as president

President Donald Trump is set to attend White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner for the first time as commander-in-chief, surrounded by the journalists he routinely berates and threatens . Until now, Trump had been the only president in the event’s century-long history not to attend at least once while in.

An anti-press president is coming to a pro-press dinner. What could go wrong?
The Guardian US4/25/2026

An anti-press president is coming to a pro-press dinner. What could go wrong?

Donald Trump attending the White House correspondents’ dinner could be awkward – and lead to blowback L ast year, after the Trump White House cut off access for the Associated Press because the news organization refused to use the name Gulf of America instead of Gulf of Mexico, debate raged about whether his staffers.