Trump At The White House Correspondents’ Dinner: POTUS’ Planned Presence Generates Controversy — And Curiosity — Over How He’ll Handle It

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As hundreds of journalists urge a forceful statement about Donald Trump‘s attacks on the media at this weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, another question is just how the president will handle it all.

It’s been more than a decade since Trump attended the dinner, and he has boycotted and even counter-programmed the event in the years since then. But he decided to go this year, writing on Truth Social, “In honor of our Nation’s 250th Birthday, and the fact that these ‘Correspondents’ now admit that I am truly one of the Greatest Presidents in the History of our Country, the G.O.A.T., according to many, it will be my Honor to accept their invitation, and work to make it the GREATEST, HOTTEST, and MOST SPECTACULAR DINNER, OF ANY KIND, EVER!”

In fact, the WHCA is not honoring Trump at the dinner, as he also claimed, but by tradition invites

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