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Yikes: Trump Will Attend Watered Down White House Correspondents Dinner Without Comedian Roasting Him

By Roger Friedman
Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as he participates in an interview with billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk on the social media platform X, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., August 12, 2024 in this picture obtained from social media. Margo Martin via X/via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES.

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Donald Trump is going to the annual White House Correspondents Dinner.

The toothless event features a mentalist doing tricks instead of a comic.

The only roasting — by Oz Pearlman — will be in the kitchen. Maybe he can make Trump disappear.

This so embarrassing for the WHCA. They’ve just rolled over and played dead. The tables will be filled with right wing celebrities and press like Fox News, etc. Nicki Minaj, Dennis Quaid, Jon Voight, some country band. But no celebrities that anyone would want to meet, trust me.

I guess now that Trump controls CBS and, soon, CNN this is the future.

Sad that the WHCA couldn’t proceed as usual with biting satire from a name comedian, and no Trump. Really lame and cowardly.

Read below, Trump’s idiotic explanation for how he’s going to turn this into a big night. 

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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