Today’s notice: Foreign money. Texas politics. The rush for Hill jobs. The White House legal strategy. But first: The Dinner.
What Are We Doing Here?
It’s another White House Correspondents’ Dinner weekend in Donald Trump’s administration. The normal parties are plentiful; there’s even some of the normal invite-FOMO from reporters ready to catch their breath at an open bar.
But the main event, the dinner itself, seems to be barely registering in the conversation. Per usual, President Trump won’t be there. But this year, neither will a comedian. In conversations I had this week at meals and in a network greenroom, media types shrugged about the dinner. What even is it this year? they said. What is it for?