There was no president. There was no comedy. The remainder of the annual dinner of the White House Representatives Association on Saturday night was journalists and the first amendment.
The celebrations that were stripped were a reflection of the simple tone in Washington at the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term, in which he fought with the press on multiple fronts and extracted from the correspondent association, the authority to define the ports that enjoy the largest amount of access to Trump.
Trump’s deepest participation in politics began after Barack Obama at the time roasted the presidential aspirations in New Yorker during the 2011 correspondence dinner.
The association canceled a specific appearance at this year’s dinner by comedian Amber Roven after referring to the new administration as a “type of group of killers” in Podcast last month. The organization, a non -profit organization that helps in the White House journalists to provide strong coverage of the presidency, to abandon the traditional raising of the event and focus on celebrating the press.
The president of the association, Eugene Daniels, said in an e -mail to the members of the Foundation 900 last month that the dinner was aimed at “honoring the excellence of journalistic and strong and independent media that covers the most powerful office in the world.”
This event, which collects money for scholarships for the press, is still a prominent social evaluation in Washington. Washington Hilton’s celebration hall was still full of journalists, news makers and even a few celebrities. Daniels Dibra Tess, whose son Austin has been missing from a decade since his disappearance in Syria.
“We have been tested and attacked,” said Daniels. “But every day our members wake up, running to the White House – plane, train, cars – with one task, holding strong accountability,” Daniels said.
Later a video of the former presidents, from Ronald Reagan to Joe Biden, who addressed dinner, saying that the association calls on the president to prove the importance of the free press in protecting democracy.
Trump programmed the last dinner during his first term, where he ran into competing with the event in 2019, before the Koronverus was canceled in 2020. This year, Trump had just returned from the funeral of Pope Francis in Rome and had no events on Saturday night.
The Trump administration has had multiple skirmishes with the press in recent months. The Federal Communications Committee (FCC) is investigating many media companies, and the administration is working to close Voice of America and other government ports, and the Associated Press has sued the administration to reduce its access to events because it was not called the Gulf of Mexico according to Trump’s executive order.
A federal judge issued a preliminary order for the administration to stop preventing AP from presidential events. In response, the White House has adopted a new press policy that gives the administration a discretionary power about those wondering about Trump and sharply limits the arrival of three news agencies, including AP, which serves billions of readers around the world.
For many years before that, the correspondent association has identified news organizations with limited space events.
Alex Thompson of Axius, who won the Aldou Buckman Award to cover him to cover up Biden while he was in office, had complained of some on the right that the press had become very soft to democratic.
“We have missed a lot of this story, and some people trust us because of it,” Tomson told reporters. “We bear some responsibility for faith in the media in such its lowest levels.”
On Saturday, dinner also admitted the winners of a number of press awards, as well as Thompson. Included:
– The AAMEKE MILLER and Zeke Miller from AP, to inform him about the White House, changes his text to erase Biden supporters of Trump “garbage”.
– Prize for Excellence in Presidential coverage under the pressure of the deadline (broadcast): Rachel Scott from ABC News, to cover it to try to assassinate Donald Trump.
– The Excellence Award in Presidential Coverage by Basra journalists: Doug Mills of the New York Times, for his image of Biden, who is going under the painting of Abraham Lincoln.
Catherine Graham Award for Courage and Accountability: Reuters, for a series of fatal production and smuggling of mortal narcotic pentianne.
– Collier Award for the State Government Accounting: AP for its series, “Prison to a Panel: Take advantage of the workforce in captive America.”
Cight for News Gundry: Anthony Zurcher from the BBC to cover it for repercussions from Biden’s processing of the Gaza war.
