the total freedom to abandon their own party if they want to<\/a> — which is a fake scholarship event, actually. That\u2019s what the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner is all about. The White House Correspondents\u2019 Association, the WHCA, is all about supposed scholarships for budding young journalists. But it\u2019s just another organization — a charity, if you will — that advances liberalism under the guise of having to do with journalism. But now Trump\u2019s saying he\u2019s not gonna go. Why, they\u2019re indignant and they\u2019re offended!<\/p>\n“How dare he!”<\/p>\n
Even after they\u2019ve all made big deals some of them about not going! This White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner… I\u2019ve been, I think, to two. I may have only been to one, and I haven\u2019t been back since. The whole premise of the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner, to me, has been fake; it\u2019s been fraudulent. Here\u2019s the premise of the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner: The president shows up one night to have dinner with members of the fourth estate, the Drive-By Media, where — for one night — they put aside the differences and have a mutual admiration society for three or four hours and they tell jokes on themselves.<\/p>\n
In fact, that\u2019s the duty of the president, to be self-deprecating at these things. And then the media stands up and they tell jokes and they have an entertainer whose job it is to entertain the room. But that\u2019s not what it is. I\u2019ve always looked at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner as… I get invited… I don\u2019t get invited anymore, but for the first 10 or 12 years I\u2019d get invited by a news organization to come sit at their table. And I would say, “Why would I want to go there? Why would I want to be in a room with 1200 people who really don\u2019t like me and they\u2019re gonna be trying to fake through the night that they do? Why would I want to do this?”<\/p>\n
The whole premise of this thing — and it\u2019s the way this White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner has evolved. It\u2019s nothing than the left-wing political establishment beating up on the Republicans and conservatives, be he a president or a speaker of the House or whatever. There\u2019s nothing congenial about it. There\u2019s nothing collegial about it. There\u2019s nothing of kind spirit about it. It\u2019s gotten worse and worse, and now it\u2019s acquired the name “nerd prom” to describe that politics is showbiz for the ugly. Which is what it is.<\/p>\n
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So ugly politician people would invite Hollywood types to show up, and then they started a red carpet for the thing, and it quickly became something totally unlike what its original purpose or intent was. I just have never seen any reason to go there. I mean, 364 days a year they hate me, they hate a Republican president, they hate Republicans. Why believe that they\u2019re gonna put all that on the shelf for one night? They\u2019re not, and they don\u2019t. I think one of the reasons Trump ran for president is the way Obama skewered him at one of these White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinners. I mean, it was brutal how they made fun of Trump.<\/p>\n
Admittedly, Trump had been on this birther thing, so it was tit-for-tat.<\/p>\n
But it lit a fire under Trump.<\/p>\n
Nobody ever thought the guy would run, and nobody ever thought if he ran he\u2019d really mean it, and nobody really thought if he ever ran, he would win. And then after he won, nobody really thought it happened, the Russians had to make it happen. Then after that, nobody really thinks he\u2019s knows what he\u2019s doing, nobody really thinks he\u2019s gonna be able to get anything done, nobody. And he just keeps setting the agenda and keeps determining the pace, and does so in an undaunted, non-defensive fashion. He knows the long knives are out for him from all over the place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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They have the total freedom to abandon their own party if they want to<\/a> — which is a fake scholarship event, actually. That\u2019s what the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner is all about. The White House Correspondents\u2019 Association, the WHCA, is all about supposed scholarships for budding young journalists. But it\u2019s just another organization — a charity, if you will — that advances liberalism under the guise of having to do with journalism. But now Trump\u2019s saying he\u2019s not gonna go. Why, they\u2019re indignant and they\u2019re offended!<\/p>\n