Trump Says He’ll Attend Rescheduled Correspondents’ Dinner (1)

June 2, 2026, 6:12 PM UTC

President Donald Trumpsaid he will attend a rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on July 24, three months after the annual gala was postponed due to a shooting incident at the venue.

“I was asked to be there, and speak, by Weijia Jiang, President of The White House Correspondents’ Association, and have accepted,” Trump said Tuesday in a social media post. He added that it would be held at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Washington, previously the Trump International Hotel.

The black-tie gathering of journalists and government officials was halted on April 25 when a gunman stormed a ...

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