Next week, the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) and its guests will reconvene for their annual dinner celebrating the First Amendment, after the April event was abruptly cut short by a gunman. Oz Pearlman, the mentalist, will return as the evening’s entertainment. And, once again, the main event will be President Donald Trump, the guest of honor and keynote speaker. “I don’t know whether or not I will give the same rather nasty statements, at least as it concerns certain people, but we will soon find out,” he said on Truth Social of his planned speech.
But Trump’s remarks may not be the most awkward moment of the night. That will likely come when Tyler Pager accepts an award for “the most fair, impartial, objective news reporting” by a member of the White House press corps. Last Friday, Pager was one of five New York Times journalists subpoenaed by the Trump administration in an effort to force the newspaper to reveal the confidential sources behind stories involving Trump’s Qatari-donated replacement for Air Force One.
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