• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    17 hours ago

    So the White House Correspondents Dinner, which is an even where the press invites the President, is supposed to be held on the White House grounds because going out in public is “too dangerous?” Do I have that right? That instead of being the press’ event that the President is invited to, it will instead be a Presidential event that the press are invited to? Do I have that right, that we’ve literally inverted how anything functions for the sake of making this fat fucking loser happy.

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      15 hours ago

      Trump didn’t go to the dinner over multiple years purely because a lot of reporters use it to poke fun (in good fun) at the President, and occasionally actually lobby for something too. The man cannot take being made fun of, at all. Making it a Presidential event makes sure that he can exclude anybody that’s not the most sycophantic.

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      18 hours ago

      Indeed! Plus, building that giant corruption-riddled eyesore will surely be cheaper than just having adequate security at the next White House Correspondents Dinner. They surely saved enough to pay for it by not having metal detectors at the hotel this time.