Tag: White House Correspondents’ Dinner

What Today’s Media Can Learn from the Civil Rights-Era Black Press

You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. You can read a transcript here. Kathy Roberts Forde, a journalist professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, says that it’s critical that journalists and media organizations stop pretending that there is a neutral […]

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Trump Ballroom Suddenly Faces GOP Opposition in Surprise Blow to MAGA

But the Post poll suggests that the ballroom has proven to be one of those things that breaks through to lower-information voters in unpredictable ways. If it’s true, as Derek Thompson says, that the smartphone is imperceptibly, indelibly transforming our politics, the ballroom might illustrate the point: With those dramatic and shareable images of Trump’s […]

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Judge Says Jan. 6 Rioters Treated Better in Jail Than WHCD Gunman

“The system sucks, this job sucks, I am trying with every breath I have to get you what I need,” said attorney Julie Le when pressed as to why the government had failed to follow judicial orders. Since then, Le was removed from the temporary position and reshuffled back to ICE. She has since leveraged […]

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Trump Sics FCC on Disney as Jimmy Kimmel War Ramps Up Again

When CBS’s Norah O’Donnell asked Trump plainly why so many people seemed to want to kill him, Trump pivoted to his usual laundry list of accomplishments, like how the U.S. is the “hottest country in the world,” before going off the rails. “They emptied our prisons into our country. They have mental institutions, insane asylums, […]

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Deranged Trump Rants Edited Out of 60 Minutes Interview After Shooting

When CBS’s Norah O’Donnell asked Trump plainly why so many people seemed to want to kill him, Trump pivoted to his usual laundry list of accomplishments, like how the U.S. is the “hottest country in the world,” before going off the rails. “They emptied our prisons into our country. They have mental institutions, insane asylums, […]

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Trump Makes Unhinged Plea to Judge to Let Him Build Ballroom

“Wow, Jimmy Kimmel, who is in no way funny as attested to by his terrible Television Ratings … showed a fake video of the First Lady, Melania, and our son, Barron, like they were actually sitting in his studio, listening to him speak, which they weren’t, and never would be. He then stated, ‘Our First […]

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Lindsey Graham Freaks Out Over Brutal Fact-Check on Trump’s Ballroom

“Wow, Jimmy Kimmel, who is in no way funny as attested to by his terrible Television Ratings … showed a fake video of the First Lady, Melania, and our son, Barron, like they were actually sitting in his studio, listening to him speak, which they weren’t, and never would be. He then stated, ‘Our First […]

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MAGA Defectors Convinced Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting Was Staged

“Wow, Jimmy Kimmel, who is in no way funny as attested to by his terrible Television Ratings … showed a fake video of the First Lady, Melania, and our son, Barron, like they were actually sitting in his studio, listening to him speak, which they weren’t, and never would be. He then stated, ‘Our First […]

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7 Takeaways From Donald Trump’s ’60 Minutes’ Interviews

Source: KEN CEDENO / Getty The annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 25 was meant to celebrate the First Amendment and freedom of the press, bringing together political leaders, journalists, and celebrities in Washington, D.C. Instead, the evening was disrupted by a shocking security breach involving an armed suspect identified as Cole Tomas Allen. […]

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What Are the Charges Against Alleged Correspondents’ Dinner Shooter?

“Yesterday’s assassination attempt on President Trump proves, yet again, that the White House ballroom is essential for the safety and security of the President, his family, his cabinet, and his staff,” the letter, signed by Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate, states. “Put simply, your lawsuit helps put the lives of the President, his family, and […]

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DOJ Tries to Kill Lawsuit Against Trump’s Ballroom After Shooting

“Excuse me, excuse me. I’m not a pedophile. You read that crap from some sick person. Uh, I got associated with stuff that has nothing to do with me. I was totally exonerated. Your friends on the other side of the plate are the ones that were involved with, let’s say, Epstein or other things,” […]

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Melania Trump Attacks Jimmy Kimmel for Joke Days Before Shooting

“Excuse me, excuse me. I’m not a pedophile. You read that crap from some sick person. Uh, I got associated with stuff that has nothing to do with me. I was totally exonerated. Your friends on the other side of the plate are the ones that were involved with, let’s say, Epstein or other things,” […]

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How Did Shooter Get So Close to White House Correspondents’ Dinner?

“Excuse me, excuse me. I’m not a pedophile. You read that crap from some sick person. Uh, I got associated with stuff that has nothing to do with me. I was totally exonerated. Your friends on the other side of the plate are the ones that were involved with, let’s say, Epstein or other things,” […]

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Alleged WHCD Shooter Had Some Thoughts on Trump’s Christianity

“Excuse me, excuse me. I’m not a pedophile. You read that crap from some sick person. Uh, I got associated with stuff that has nothing to do with me. I was totally exonerated. Your friends on the other side of the plate are the ones that were involved with, let’s say, Epstein or other things,” […]

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Is This the Trump Post That Finally Provoked Alleged WHCD Shooter?

“Excuse me, excuse me. I’m not a pedophile. You read that crap from some sick person. Uh, I got associated with stuff that has nothing to do with me. I was totally exonerated. Your friends on the other side of the plate are the ones that were involved with, let’s say, Epstein or other things,” […]

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Trump Erupts After Being Confronted With Alleged Shooter’s Manifesto

“Excuse me, excuse me. I’m not a pedophile. You read that crap from some sick person. Uh, I got associated with stuff that has nothing to do with me. I was totally exonerated. Your friends on the other side of the plate are the ones that were involved with, let’s say, Epstein or other things,” […]

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The Main Thing Trump Wants You to Know About WHCD Shooting

“Well, what happened is I started walking with them, I turned, I started walking,” Trump said. “And they said, ‘Please go down, please go down on the floor.’ So I went down, and the first lady went down. We were asked to go down by the agents, as we were walking.” “They wanted you to […]

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What Trump Wants Everyone to Know About Correspondents’ Dinner Attack

“Well, what happened is I started walking with them, I turned, I started walking,” Trump said. “And they said, ‘Please go down, please go down on the floor.’ So I went down, and the first lady went down. We were asked to go down by the agents, as we were walking.” “They wanted you to […]

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Trump Held Up Secret Service During WHCD Shooting for Dumbest Reason

“Well, what happened is I started walking with them, I turned, I started walking,” Trump said. “And they said, ‘Please go down, please go down on the floor.’ So I went down, and the first lady went down. We were asked to go down by the agents, as we were walking.” “They wanted you to […]

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We Marinate in Conspiracy Today. Who’s to Blame? Partly, Donald Trump.

Then there were the conspiracy theories about Barack Obama. The birther theories are only the most obvious in this category. You may have forgotten some of the more baroque ones—the cocaine-fueled homosexual affair, the general idea that he wanted to bring America to its knees, peddled by the hustler Dinesh D’Souza. Of course, one other […]

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Trump and the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Deserve Each Other

A new report from the Institute for Policy Studies, or IPS, takes a deep dive into the battery of corporations they call the “Low Wage 20”: 20 firms that currently employ 6.7 million people across the United States. The names are familiar—Amazon, Starbucks, FedEx, Walmart, and Tyson Foods are habitual malefactors—but their sins are growing […]

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Trump to Stage a Meltdown at White House Correspondents’ Dinner

But a new report from Drop Site, which reviewed birth records, identification papers, a family will, and other personal documents of the two women, reveals there isn’t a single connection between the women and Soleimani, who was killed by a drone strike ordered by President Trump in 2020. These documents corroborate comments from Qassem Soleimani’s […]

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