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‘Who the hell wrote that?’: Trump bombs at correspondents dinner with unfunny, tasteless speech
The do-over of the White House Correspondents’ Association’s annual dinner, rescheduled after a gunman allegedly tried to assassinate US President Donald Trump and top administration officials at the previous one, began with mutual rejection of political violence and recognition of the importance of a free press.
“An assassination attempt on our president is an attack on democracy itself,” said Weijia Jiang, the association’s outgoing president. “We will not be intimidated. We refuse to let an act of violence have the final word.”
Trump was seated at a long table on stage, facing the room and nursing a glass of Diet Coke. Before speaking, he had to sit through a presentation of annual awards for political journalism – including multiple gongs for stories that he did not like.
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President mocks political opponents and journalists in mostly light-hearted, hour-long speech at White House correspondentsâ dinner
Donald Trump joked around with the room of journalists who he again accused of producing âfake newsâ as he hurled insults at his political enemies in a speech at the White House correspondentsâ dinner.
A day after the Trump administration abandoned, for now, an extraordinary bid to subpoena reporters over their coverage, the US president attended the rescheduled White House correspondentsâ dinner â an annual celebration of press freedom â in Washington on Friday evening.
It came three months after the original event was scrapped in April when a man fired a shotgun at a security checkpoint outside the ballroom.
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Trump mixes jokes with barbs at press freedom dinner
US President Donald Trump has addressed journalists at a correspondents' dinner rescheduled from April.
The original event was disrupted by a shooting, which forced the evacuation of Mr Trump and his cabinet members.
The president's speech featured some barbs, but he said he had planned to be more critical at the original event.
US President Donald Trump has poked fun at the press during a redo of the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner after a shooting forced the suspension of the original event in April.
The president, whose administration has often been at odds with the press, mostly stuck to the warm and relaxed tenor of the evening, noting that his speech for the original event "was going to be a doozy".
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