Journos Demand DC Hacks Protest Trumps Appearance

As RedState reported, President Donald Trump has lifted his moratorium on attending the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Saturday will mark his first-ever attendance at what has been dubbed “the nerd prom,” with journalists glad-handing and congratulating one another for being their not-so-fabulous selves. Think, the Academy Awards, with less enticing people.

Weijia Jiang, President of the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA), said on X, “We’re happy the president has accepted our invitation and look forward to hosting him.” Trump graciously agreed to attend in mild of this yr marking the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and First Lady Melania Trump will probably be coming along with him. 

But for sure journalists, this is all too cozy and Kum-bah-yah. They don’t desire President Trump to come to the dinner and have a good time. They need their fellow D.C. journalists to rise up to “force protest!” What does that imply? Will the journos escape into chants of “This is what democracy looks like?!” or sing, “Which side are you on?” Or will they do a synchronized dance in their tuxes and come-jump-me heels? 

According to the letter being shared by all the left-wing hacks, a group of 250 journalists signed a letter demanding the WHCA bow to their needs. The signatories embody Sam Donaldson (who?), Dan Rather (he is still alive?!), and Jackie Judd (huh?), among others.

The letter reads, in half:  

To the Officers, Board of Directors, and Members of the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA):

We, the undersigned, call upon the White House Correspondents’ Association to use the event of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, to forcefully display opposition to President Trump’s efforts to trample freedom of the press.

The dinner has long served as a image of the very important and irreplaceable function of a free press in American democracy and a celebration of the First Amendment and the journalists who uphold it. President Trump’s systematic, sustained, and unprecedented assaults on the free press (detailed below) render his presence at such an event a profound contradiction of its objective.

The collective weight of the administration’s actions — retaliatory access bands, coercive regulatory investigations, frivolous lawsuits against the press, defunding of public broadcasting, dismantling of worldwide broadcasting, bodily restrictions on journalists, personal verbal assaults on reporters, assaults on the media in official White House press releases and social media posts, the arrests of journalists, and the pardoning of those who dedicated violence against the press — symbolize the most systematic and complete assault on freedom of the press by a sitting American president.

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So, President Joe Biden called lids at 11 a.m., rescinded press access to 440 media shops, and restricted press to chosen shops and pre-programmed questions. But President Donald Trump holds press scrums on the tarmac of Joint Base Andrews on the common, and solutions questions unscripted and off-the-cuff, wherever he goes. Trump also responds to journalists’ calls to his cellphone at all hours. 

NEWS: President Trump just told me over the telephone that he disagrees with Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s evaluation that fuel costs could not drop until next yr.

“No, I feel he’s fallacious on that. Totally fallacious,” Trump said.

— Julia Manchester (@JuliaManch) April 20, 2026

So, who, precisely, is a risk to the First Amendment? 

Take all the seats, whiners.

There is a long custom of presidents attending the White House Correspondents Association Dinner. But these will not be regular occasions, and this can’t be business as normal with the press standing up to applaud the person who assaults them on a daily foundation.

We perceive that some journalists plan to put on pocket handkerchiefs or lapel pins with the phrases the First Amendment. And persevering with in that spirit, we imagine the White House Correspondents Association ought to take stronger motion by issuing — from the rostrum — a forceful protection of freedom of the press and condemnation of those who threaten that freedom, adopted by a standing toast to the First Amendment and a pledge to continue upholding such a essential cornerstone of our democracy. Speak forcefully, in entrance of the person who seeks to undermine our nation’s long custom of an impartial, strong, and free press.

Yeah, this is gonna be brutal. Trump takes down these people’ gotcha questions and poorly framed logic with precision. Trust me, whatever they’ve deliberate, he’ll be loaded for bear.

We also urge the WHCA to reaffirm, without equivocation, that freedom of the press isn’t a partisan issue and that the Association is not going to normalize this habits but instead battle back against any officeholder who has waged systemic warfare against the journalists whose work the dinner celebrates.

The letter ends with a two-and-a-half-page laundry record of “Trump Administration’s Attack on the Free Press,” along with the 250 signatories listed alphabetically. 

Here is where these fauxnalists tank their complete argument. This screed is nothing BUT partisan. Where had been their protests when President Barack Obama spied on then-Fox News correspondent James Rosen and then-CBS News investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson? Non-existent. They gladly toasted and took pictures with the “first Black President” because he represented their values and the proper political leanings.  

The fact that the people who signed on to this letter, and those who will attend the dinner, are still publishing under their bylines or trotting on to whatever news outlet finds them fascinating to spout about how horrible Trump is, is proof that the First Amendment is alive and properly, and their protests are merely performative theater. The legacy media loses credibility by the day, particularly when they can not even distinguish NAFTA from NATO. 

New York Times mocked for bungling that means of NATO: ‘How embarrassing and unhappy’ https://t.co/nuU4EulUVW pic.twitter.com/UkNfVkTc7Q

— New York Post (@nypost) April 3, 2026

There is real suppression of the First Amendment occurring, though: look no additional than California and the so-called “Stop Nick Shirley” Act that is designed to suppress impartial journalism and free speech. That same Nick Shirley has performed the work of serving to to expose corruption and additional the First Amendment, yet he has to rent personal security because he is getting death threats. This bunch thinks they’re being focused if their Starbucks order is fallacious. 

This dinner is the most vain-glorious event ever put on in DC  – and that’s saying a lot. 

I don’t know why any Republican would go. The press will toast itself, brag about how they’re saving the republic, and only Democrats will agree. 

The largest risk to the press is the press. They’re those who misplaced their prospects trust long in the past.

This dinner is the most vain-glorious event ever put on in DC – and that’s saying a lot.

I don’t know why any Republican would go. The press will toast itself, brag about how they’re saving the republic, and only Democrats will agree.

The largest risk to the press is the… https://t.co/46UG4VfMm9

— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) April 20, 2026

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