Trump pokes fun at press during White House Correspondents' Dinner
"And no deranged loser with a gun will ever change that. We can't let that ever happen."Trump appeared to be in a good mood throughout the event, jokingly telling the media that "sometimes I really do think that some of you don't like me"."This place [the dinner] is really the largest group of 'Trump derangement syndrome' people ever put together at one time," he said. "I suspect some of you are lucky that our last dinner was cut short...I was going to go after you."The event was considerably scaled down from the first correspondents' dinner, with about 700 people in attendance, compared with more than 2,000 in April.Security was also tighter.
- ▪"And no deranged loser with a gun will ever change that.
- ▪We can't let that ever happen."Trump appeared to be in a good mood throughout the event, jokingly telling the media that "sometimes I really do think that some of you don't like me"."This place [the dinner] is really the largest group of 'T
- ▪"I suspect some of you are lucky that our last dinner was cut short...I was going to go after you."The event was considerably scaled down from the first correspondents' dinner, with about 700 people in attendance, compared with more than 2,
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Trump pokes fun at press during White House Correspondents' Dinner<div class="ssrcss-1553su4-ErrorMessage eitf6465"><div class="ssrcss-h7lv7m-StyledInnerContainer eitf6464"><div class="ssrcss-nbxsk2-TextContent eitf6461"><h2 type="normal" class="ssrcss-89o2pv-Heading e10rt3ze0">To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.</h2><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10">This video can not be played</p></div></div></div>Figure caption, Watch: 'The show must go on' says Trump at second White House correspondents dinnerByBernd Debusmann JrPublished3 minutes agoUS President Donald Trump has poked fun at the media at his first White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) dinner, a night that celebrated press freedom after the first event was cancelled by a shooting…
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