Trump unlikely to attend White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday
- The White House Correspondents' Dinner occurred Saturday night at the Washington Hilton in Washington.
- The annual gala proceeded without its traditional comedian host amid a somber tone during President Trump's second term.
- President Trump was unlikely to attend the event, having skipped the dinner three times previously during his first term.
- WHCA President Eugene Daniels stated the focus was "entirely on awarding our colleagues for their outstanding work."
- The dinner highlighted mounting concerns about press freedom while celebrating journalistic excellence with various awards.
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The annual White House Correspondents' Dinner was held on Sunday night. It was clear that these are new times.


The White House Correspondents Association is organizing its annual gala this Saturday, a celebration that is expected to be discreet in the midst of the growing concern for press freedom under the mandate of U.S. President Donald Trump. The event has traditionally been avoided by the Republican tycoon, who since his return to power in January has also sought to neutralize the media through a series of measures that, according to his critics, ar…
The Washington Hilton’s decades-long history with DC politics
Watch Video: The Washington Hilton’s history with the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Washington — Inside the kitchen at the Washington Hilton ahead of Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner are frenetic dinner preparations for about 2,600 people. “So, if it’s a three-course, you multiply that by three, we could walk away doing almost 10,000 plates in the kitchen as a whole,” Daniel Bennett, the hotel’s executive chef, tells CBS …
White House journalists use annual press dinner to celebrate First Amendment
There was no president. There was no comedian. What remained at the White House Correspondents' Association's annual dinner on Saturday night were the journalists and the First Amendment.The stripped-down festivities were a reflection of the somber tone in Washington at the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term, in which he has battled with the press on multiple fronts and wrested from the correspondents' association the power to dec…
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