Trump will be attending this weekend's White House Correspondents' Dinner for the first time as president and speaking before thousands of journalists and politicos — leaving attendees to wonder what he’ll say and how the room will react.
A wide range of critics say the soirée risks normalizing Trump’s anti-democratic assaults on the press.
Trump’s presence at the event is “a profound contradiction of its purpose,” a petition signed by 250-plus veteran journalists and several media advocacy groups said earlier this week.
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