Vanity Fair, The New Yorker Will Not Participate in WH Correspondents Dinner Parties

[kpete]

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The White House Correspondents’ Dinner is still on for this year, but two of its biggest participants are backing out of the festivities in the wake of the Donald Trump Presidency.

In recent days, there was some mystery as to whether “Nerd Prom” would happen at all, given the Trump Administration’s rough relationship with the media. The dinner is set to take place after all, but The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, who host two of the weekend’s biggest events, will not be taking part.

“We’ve taken a break from the dinner in the past,” said Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter. When the New York Times asked if there was any particular reason for his decision, Carter cited “Trump” and plans to go on a weekend fishing trip.

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The New Yorker is also known for its weekend kickoff parties, which are usually recognized as star-studded events. According to their spokeswoman, they have decided to scrap their plans for this year as well.

Full Frontal host Samantha Bee will be holding a counter-event in the city that weekend, which is set up to be a comedic roast against Trump.



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[hatrack]

1. Good, it's an "institution" that needs to go the fuck away anyhow . . .

I hope they all end up at Samantha's party.

[MFM008]

2. Wasn't watching

Anyway.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Carter does not suffer fools

[madokie]

4. Tear him

the fuck up.

Awesome

[HipChick]

5. They should all back out...

Empty tables....would upset Cheeto..

[fleur-de-lisa]

9. THIS !

[mopinko]

10. if i thought it was gonna be an empty room, or even half empty

THAT would make me watch.

[NewJeffCT]

14. He'd populate the seats with

people from Infowars, Project Veritas, Breitbart, One America, Fox, the NY Post, Washington Times, etc.

[Hekate]

18. Absolutely

[truebluegreen]

6. Good they are backing out;

every other journalist and news organization needs to follow suit. In truth, it should have happened long ago. The relationship between the press and the government should be adversarial, not cozy.

[fishwax]

7. good--I was wondering about this the other day

Nobody should afford him the normalizing humor of that event.

[DetlefK]

8. Vanity Fair reviewed Trump's restaurant. It was brutal.

Kitschy interior, a poor man's imagination how a rich man would decorate a house.

The food uninspired and the recipes desperate: The food is made under the assumption that smashing expensive ingredients together gives you a good meal.

And what they had actually served... One of the critics ordered filet and what he got was a boneless cutlett. (A cutlett is a cut of meat that contains several muscles. One of them is filet. So, he ordered a filet and got 20% of a filet. It's an excellent, juicy cut, but not what the guest had ordered and instead of paying for a medium-priced cutlett, the guest paid for a high-priced filet.)
And the presentation? Take a guess... Loveless, uninspired, no passion.

Because the food had been late, one of the critics got a dessert for free: A piece of cake straight from the fridge, topped with runny whipped-cream straight from the can.

[pinboy3niner]

11. Go ahead and have the dinner, just don't invite Trump. nt

[Raine1967]

15. Exactly my thought.

[nikibatts]

12. Wish all the media would boycott the Press Dinner. Let only FOX show up. It would make him sick.

He craves attention and more than that he wants to be loved and admired.

[mainstreetonce]

13. I was hoping

they would invite Obama to be the host speaker.

[2naSalit]

16. I like that idea.

[IronLionZion]

17. They should go to Samantha Bee's competing event

and roast him real good

I'm sure Breitbart and Infowars will be guests of honor.