Dan Rather and Sam Donaldson Sent Out Marching Orders to Attack Trump at White House Correspondents
The Letter That Changes the Room--Trump boycotted the dinner every year of his first term. He skipped 2025. He has called the press fake news at every opportunity for the better part of a decade.
This year the WHCA invited him to be the honoree and he accepted – announcing on Truth Social that he planned to make it "the GREATEST, HOTTEST, and MOST SPECTACULAR DINNER, OF ANY KIND, EVER!"
The press spent two terms covering what they called an unprecedented assault on democratic norms. When Trump skipped the dinner, they held it anyway and used the podium to mock him. The one thing they never expected was for him to actually show up. He is showing up.
That acceptance is why the letter exists.
More than 250 journalists signed it. Dan Rather is 94. Sam Donaldson is 92. These are not young activists or fringe voices. They are the men who defined what a network news anchor looked and sounded like for an entire generation of Americans.
Also signing: former Today host Ann Curry, and organizations including the Society of Professional Journalists, the National Association of Black Journalists, and the National Press Photographers Association.
Their demand: demonstrate opposition to Trump from the podium...while he sits in the room as the guest of honor.
But their insults never got to happen.
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