President Trump bailed on the White House Correspondents Association Dinner Saturday night – instead heading to Wisconsin to deliver a fiery speech to a packed Green Bay arena.
“There’s no place I’d rather be than right here in America’s heartland… and there’s no one I’d rather be with than you, the hardworking patriots that make our country run so well,” said Trump.
Meanwhile, a sad trombone could be heard whomp-whomping at the Trump-less WHCA dinner – where instead of the traditional comedian, association president Olivier Knox balled up his fists and gave a fear-mongering sermon about poor MSM reporters who Trump has endangered with his rhetoric.
It’s hard to accurately convey the somber tone in the room post-Mueller report, as the room full of journalists who have peddled Trump-Russia conspiracy theories for more than two years cried into their wheaties.
“I don’t want to dwell on the president,” said Knox. “This is not his dinner. It’s ours, and it should stay ours. But I do want to say this. In nearly 23 years as a reporter I’ve been physically assaulted by Republicans and Democrats, spat on, shoved, had crap thrown at me. I’ve been told I will never work in Washington again by both major parties.”
“And yet I still separate my career to before February 2017 and what came after,” Know continued. “And February 2017 is when the president called us the enemy of the people. A few days later my son asked me, ‘Is Donald Trump going to put you in prison?” At the end of a family trip to Mexico he mused if the president tried to keep me out of the country, at least Uncle Josh is a good lawyer and will get you home”
“I’ve had to tell my family not to touch packages on our stoop,” Knox bemoaned. “My name is on a statement criticizing the president for celebrating a congressman’s criminal assault on a reporter. I’ve had death threats, including one this week. Too many of us have. It shouldn’t need to be said in a room full of people who understand the power of words but fake news and enemies of the people are not punch lines, pet names or presidential. And we should reject politically expedient assaults on the men and women whose hard work makes it possible to hold the powerful to account.” (h/t Grabien).
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