Furious Trump orders officials to boycott Correspondents' Dinner

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Source: Politico

WHITE HOUSE

Furious Trump orders officials to boycott Correspondents' Dinner
The president, angry at the political media, throws a wrench into its annual gala.

By ELIANA JOHNSON 04/23/2019 01:21 PM EDT Updated 04/23/2019 04:07 PM EDT

President Donald Trump escalated his feud with the media by another degree on Tuesday, ordering officials in his administration to boycott Saturday’s annual White House Correspondents Association dinner.

While most Americans may care little about a gala dinner in the nation’s capital, Trump’s move, which two White House officials confirmed to POLITICO, is an acid gesture to a Washington media establishment that spends months planning for the dinner and carefully planning and allocating coveted invites to the event. It may also please his political base, much of which Trump has convinced that the media is “the enemy of the people.”

The move came after Trump spent the morning insulting the news media on Twitter, calling MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough a “Psycho” and musing about New York Times reporters getting “down on their knees” to apologize to him after his 2020 re-election victory.

Around the same time the president was tapping out those tweets, White House Cabinet Secretary Bill McGinley, who oversees the various cabinet agencies, assembled the chiefs of staff of those agencies and issued a directive from the president aimed at disrupting a weekend typically used to foster camaraderie between the White House and the news media.

But the president is having none of it. Though Trump himself has spurned the annual White House Correspondents’ dinner for the past two years, he’s taking it a step further, ordering administration officials to boycott the dinner, according to two White House officials. Dozens of administration officials have attended the dinner in previous years, but many will be sending rented tuxes and gowns back without wear this year.
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Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/23/trump-orders-boycott-of-white-house-correspondents-dinner-1287871

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Hat tip, Joe.My.God.:

https://www.joemygod.com/2019/04/trump-orders-staff-to-boycott-annual-wh-press-dinner/

Thread in GD:

WH ordered tRump officials to boycott the WHCD...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212041225

[Firestorm49]

1. What a dick. Will this boy ever grow up?

[3catwoman3]

30. No chance.

None. At. All.

[louis-t]

2. Petty and childish. This guy is one, giant

sack of dog feces.

[samplegirl]

3. I don't want to see his

rank shit show anyway!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. I wonder if he'd fire a staffer who did attend?

It might be an easy way out of a terrible job, and they'd get to go to a nice party as well.

[cstanleytech]

5. What a petty, insecure man child and he has been for decades probably because his parents

coddled him to much.

[Control-Z]

22. I read everything I could find about malignant narcissism

quite a few years ago - during Bush's 2nd term, iirc. At the time (there wasn't much to be found on the internet) it was thought that the disorder was due to over coddling, being shown more love, considered "special" and treated better than his/her siblings... specifically by his/her mother.

Again, at the time, prognosis for recovery was poor, if even considered possible.

The expert's only advice (again, at the time)was to run away from the narcissist and never look back.

I think this probably still applies and the public needs to know just how much they are at risk of being psychologically damaged by the White House squatter.

[jberryhill]

26. They sent him to a military school for incorrigible boys

Before there was Ritalin, there were junior military academies - Skinner boxes for boys from wealthy families with behavioral issues.

[DemoTex]

6. A vapid, petulant, little snool.

"Snool" is a word I learned here on DU, in the early days of both GWB and DU (2001).

[Joe Nation]

7. Sounds like twumpy still has a butt hurt from his last experience.

What a thin-skinned baby.

[Mister Ed]

12. Here's the clip from 2011:

That humorless SOB sure can't take a joke.

(Obama's Trump jokes start at 2:27)

?t=146

[Doitnow]

14. Wouldn't it be grand if they would play this video at the forthcoming dinner!!!! After

all, it's supposed to be a fun time!!!

[Judi Lynn]

25. Truly great seeing that again. Thank you. n/t

[Schmice3]

8. You know he'll be watching n/t

[C_U_L8R]

9. He needs to show that he's obeyed

What a pathetic weakling.

[TeamPooka]

10. Fuck Trump and fuck the WHPC for canceling the entertainment this year by not booking a comic

nothing like cowing down to power.
Now look where it got you.
They would have looked better if they had booked someone to go up there and ripped Trump a new one like Colbert did to Bush in '06.
but the cowardly organization did not do that.

[Grasswire2]

28. How do you know that the HISTORIAN they booked is not going to rip him one? nt

[TeamPooka]

31. No one cares about him. He represents the WHPC fear and cowardice.

[Grasswire2]

34. Phooey.

It's WHCA, incidentally.

[TeamPooka]

35. The press corp doesnt deserve the respect of their correct initials

they still treat Sarah Sanders with respect, even after it's fact in the report that she lied, for the heck of it.

[Grasswire2]

36. Sorry, but I don't believe you know what you are talking about.

It is the watchdog press standing between the people and tyranny.

Your bashing of them is not productive.

[TeamPooka]

32. and no ones going to watch so they won't hear him anyway.

[Merlot]

11. Should be "attack" not feud. Feud implies it's a two way fight.

President Donald Trump escalated his feud with the media

[Miigwech]

13. Good! Quarantine the bastards the from civil society.

[Mc Mike]

15. Blubbering coward, garbage person.

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He was just the happiest he's ever been, now he's furious. Dipso.

[NYMinute]

16. This will only make the anti-Trump jokes

more vicious than they otherwise would have been.

[bluestarone]

17. Should be a GREAT dinner if

They all stay away!

[Solly Mack]

18. He'll watch. He'll tweet. So I hope the jokes are lethal.

[Ferretherder]

19. This would be a great time for...

...Alec Baldwin to show up as Trump, insulting everyone of the journalists and correspondents who have attended; railing against any in the media who do not fawn over him, and especially those who make fun of him - saving his most caustic vitriol for that loser Alex Baldwin, who does a terrible impersonation of him on the 'soon-to-be-cancelled' Saturday Night Live!

[dhill926]

20. someone please give him back his binkie....

petulant fuck...

[jmowreader]

21. Fine.

Invite President Obama to it and let him speak.

[Rebl2]

29. I second that!!!

[JohnnyRingo]

23. Trump's hands are bigger than I thought.

because they're attached to a very small man indeed.

[Shoonra]

24. The Correspondents should .....

The White House Correspondents should react by featuring Michelle Wolfe again, and maybe having a second political comedian of the kind that draws blood. Show that switching to an innocuous academician, as they did last year, won't be resorted to again since it didn't appease or attract The Don.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

27. Fuckface has no sense of humor

He can dish it out but can't take it.

[marble falls]

33. Good. The gloves are off.