The White House Correspondents’ Dinner is Decadent and Depraved

Apr 21, 2026

The point of the dinner is to mingle journalists with stars. There’s no noble mission there for Trump to denigrate.

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James Kirchick

James Kirchick is a writer at large for Air Mail and author of Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington and The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age. He has reported from over 40 countries and his writing has appeared in many publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Atlantic.

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