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diehardblue

(11,133 posts)
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 09:12 PM Apr 2025

The correspondents' dinner seems to be a bash Joe Biden fest, giving out awards for

minimizing the former president. That is just my perception.

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The correspondents' dinner seems to be a bash Joe Biden fest, giving out awards for (Original Post) diehardblue Apr 2025 OP
Isn't the correspondence dinner supposed to be kind of a roast of the CURRENT president? sakabatou Apr 2025 #1
The MSM is an idoiot creon Apr 2025 #2
And to think the comedian who they unhired.... Shipwack Apr 2025 #3
It's the Correspondents Dinner DFW Apr 2025 #4
Thanks for the correction, and I will do that. However, I WILL NOT dignify it as a proper noun with capitalization. diehardblue Apr 2025 #8
Trump didn't attend. 58Sunliner Apr 2025 #10
Agree crazylikafox Apr 2025 #5
Why I never turn it on. InAbLuEsTaTe Apr 2025 #7
Malevolent and abusive. 58Sunliner Apr 2025 #11
Television created Trump. hunter Apr 2025 #6
Actually the ending speech was great. nolabear Apr 2025 #9

Shipwack

(2,994 posts)
3. And to think the comedian who they unhired....
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 09:20 PM
Apr 2025

was let go because she refused to make jokes about "both sides equally".

DFW

(59,729 posts)
4. It's the Correspondents Dinner
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 09:24 PM
Apr 2025

And the President usually pokes fun at everyone, including himself—something of which Trump is incapable.

diehardblue

(11,133 posts)
8. Thanks for the correction, and I will do that. However, I WILL NOT dignify it as a proper noun with capitalization.
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 09:40 PM
Apr 2025

crazylikafox

(2,900 posts)
5. Agree
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 09:29 PM
Apr 2025

They actually gave an award for reporting on President Biden’s “declining cognitive abilities “.
I turned it off.

nolabear

(43,847 posts)
9. Actually the ending speech was great.
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 10:14 PM
Apr 2025

The current president of the WHCA spoke eloquently against much of what tfg has been doing, limiting access, minimizing the First Amendment, letting journalists be imprisoned and harassed, etc. He got an ovation in what otherwise was a dishwater dull awards ceremony.

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