Gridiron Dinner Appears To Rebuke Donald Trump With Break From 140-Year-Old Tradition
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It was a pointed shift.
The annual Gridiron Club and Foundation Dinner — for the first time in its 140-year history — did not raise a glass to the sitting president, reported multiple media outlets.
Instead, attendees at Saturday’s closed-door event at the Grand Hyatt Washington toasted the First Amendment. It was a pointed shift in a night known for its bipartisan roasting of politicians and the media alike.
The break from tradition underscored the growing hostility between the press and President Donald Trump’s administration which, in another departure, declined to send a representative to the shindig.
“Nobody went because either we were busy working or we just don’t care to be recognized by that crowd,” a Trump White House official told Politico.
Trump himself attended the event in 2018.
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