Trump Accepts White House Correspondents’ Dinner Invitation for First Time

Mind-reader and mentalist Oz Pearlman will also speak at the event.
Trump Accepts White House Correspondents’ Dinner Invitation for First Time
President Donald Trump speaks during a Medal of Honor ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington on March 2, 2026. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images
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President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he will attend the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner for the first time as president, after declining to attend during his initial term in office due to his view that the majority of the media is unfairly biased against him. The president also did not attend in 2025, the first year of his second presidential term.

“The White House Correspondents Association has asked me, very nicely, to be the Honoree at this year’s Dinner, a long and storied tradition since it began in 1924, under then President Calvin Coolidge,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

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