Insult-laden speech to 700 at WHITE HOUSE Correspondents Dinner draws mostly stunned silence

Michael Birnbaum for

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7/24/2026

at the WALDORF-Astoria

(formerly Trump International HOTEL)

POTUS 47 attacked a slew of

journalists as well as "favorite

political foils" at slimmed-down

redo of the Spring "Nerd Prom"

held at the Washington D.C.

Hilton.

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