Over 250 journalists demand reporters 'forcefully' protest Trump at White House Correspondents' Dinn

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Over 250 journalists demand reporters 'forcefully' protest Trump at White House Correspondents' Dinner
Ryan King


WASHINGTON — Forget covering protests — some reporters think they should be the ones making the ruckus.

A group of over 250 journalists implored members of the Beltway press corps to “forcefully demonstrate opposition” to President Trump at the ritzy White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday.

Trump, 79, is set to attend the swanky dinner for the first time in his presidency. But the group of 250 reporters is demanding that the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) ensure he doesn’t feel welcome.

“We believe the White House Correspondents Association should take stronger action by issuing — from the podium — a forceful defense of freedom of the press and condemnation of those who threaten that freedom, followed by a standing toast to the First Amendment,” the letter to members of the WHCA said.

“Speak forcefully, in front of the man who seeks to undermine our country’s long tradition of an independent, strong, and free press.”

The WHCA, which represents the White House press corps, is organizing the annual dinner and has clashed with Trump repeatedly over the past year.

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https://nypost.com/2026/04/20/us-news/over-250-journalists-demand-reporters-forcefully-protest-trump-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner/

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"Forcefully?" Sounds kind of violent.

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Everyone Laugh at This ABSURD Open Letter Demanding Journos Heckle Trump at WHCD
Curtis Houck
April 20th, 2026 4:38 PM

On Monday morning, leading national press organizations and over 250 has-beens — including Dan Rather and Sam Donaldson — showed their hatred for President Trump and his voters by demanding White House correspondents and other D.C. journalists denounce President Trump to his face at this Saturday’s White House Correspondents Dinner (WHCD).

The letter ordered attendees to “forcefully demonstrate opposition to President Trump’s efforts to trample freedom of the press” since allowing Trump to attend — an invitation extended to him by CBS’s Weijia Jiang the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) board — was “a profound contradiction of [the dinner’s] purpose” to celebrate the D.C. media’s “vital and irreplaceable role” in the First Amendment and America itself.

The letter’s first two paragraphs served up enough gag-worthy, pontifical, pretentious smarm that illustrate why Americans across the political spectrum loathe the national media’s ego believing they themselves embody the First Amendment (and not every single America) and are the bulwark to keeping the country safe (and not our military and first responders). 

Incredibly, this was just one elongated sentence:

The collective weight of the administration’s actions — retaliatory access bans, coercive regulatory investigations, frivolous lawsuits against the press, defunding of public broadcasting, dismantling of international broadcasting, physical restrictions on journalists, personal verbal attacks on reporters, assaults on the media in official White House press releases and social media posts, the arrest of journalists, and the pardoning of those who committed violence against the press — represent the most systematic and comprehensive assault on freedom of the press by a sitting American president.

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https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2026/04/20/everyone-laugh-absurd-open-letter-demanding-journos-heckle-trump