The president of the White House Correspondents Association, Eugene Daniels, began the annual group dinner on Saturday night, ingenious comments about the absence of President Donald Trump, and a broader complaint about what he called an “extremely difficult” year for him.
“I know this has an extremely diffuse year bone for all of you. It’s a difficult leg for this association,” Daniels said.
“We have been tested, attacked, but every day our members get up, run to the White House, the plane, the train, the car with a mission, holding the powerful.”
Daniels, who recently joined MSNBC full time after his period in Polico, made the comments in the first minutes of dinner, and pointed to the crowd: “This dinner will feel a bit different from the usual. There.” ”
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The president of the White House Correspondents Association, Eugene Daniels, on the right, opened the annual dinner criticizing Trump’s absence and highlighting a difficult year for the press. (Getty images)
Saturday’s event marked another year without Trump, who chose to omit dinner through his first mandate as well. The White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, also refused to attend. President Joe Biden attended the three dinners maintained the duration of his mandate; The 2021 dinner in his first year in office was canceled due to COVID-19 Conerns.
Traditionally, the event has presented a comedian mocking the media and official Washington, as well as in the acting president who performs a standing routine. The event also traditionally collects money for scholarships and programs that support the work of Whcas. It presents a crowd full of media stars, politics and Hollywood.
A great rest of tradition this year was the lack of a roast comedian to the acting president. Daniels announced last month that the programmed performance of the Amber Ruffin comic had been canceled, calling him part of a “reba” of dinner.
In a memorandum to Whca members, Daniels said he wanted to move away the approach of the night in “the division policy” and to celebrate journalism and free press initiatives.
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The decision to cancel Ruffin occurred one day after the White House Cabinet Deputy Director, Taylor Budowich, criticized the Whca selection, calling the Liberal Ruffin a “second -rate comedian” in X, and pointed out his previous hostility the Trump administration.
Ruffin responded in the late show of Seth Meyers with a satirical and acute parody. Mocking the idea of political justice for “both sides,” he joked, “we have a free press so that we can be friendly to Republicans in elegant dinners.” Ruffin also commented that “when bad people do bad things, you have to treat them fair and respectful.”
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This year’s dinner occurs in the midst of successful tensions between the press and the White House of Trump. Some media have accused the administration of traditional news organizations in official events.
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Earlier this year, the Trump administration prohibited Associated Press from some events of the press group after they decided to ignore Trump’s executive order that renewed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. A federal judge ruled that the White House actions violated the Constitution, thought that the administration appealed the decision. He also eliminated the traditional wire service slot in the rotating press pool.