Opinion | Is the White House Correspondents’ dinner headed for another mess?

The association says the dinner celebrates a free press. Trump will likely use it to attack the press.

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Friday’s rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association dinner has all the makings of a complete clown show.

I was going to say it has all the makings of a complete disaster, but that is how you would describe the first attempt back in April. That dinner, you recall, had to be shut down after a gunman trying to enter the event shot a Secret Service agent. The agent fortunately suffered only minor injuries. Still, it was horrific.

The White House Correspondents’ Association was not to blame for how the first dinner ended. Security ultimately did its job and, fortunately, no one was killed or seriously injured.

Friday’s dinner won’t be the big, swanky affair the traditional dinner usually is, yet it still has a chance to devolve into a big embarrassment because of one man:

President Donald Trump.

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