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Trump's War On Press Has Intensified Since Speech At Correspondents Dinner

Critics say Trump has used legal threats, regulatory pressure and firings against news outlets since his dinner remarks to reporters.

Summary by National Memo
One month ago, the White House Correspondents Association gathered for its annual “dinner that celebrates the First Amendment” with President Donald Trump. Journalists assembled in Washington, D.C., sat impotently as the president delivered remarks that mixed empty platitudes about his “respect for your profession” with withering insults directed at individual reporters. The evening “was a public humiliation for the White House Correspondents’ A…

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Media Matters for America broke the news on Tuesday, August 25, 2026.
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