Sasha Urban editorThree years and one administration later, the White House Correspondents’ Dinner is back in Washington, D.C., for the first time since 2019.
This year’s event, headlined by “The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah, will take place on Saturday at 8 p.m. ET. The program will air live and uninterrupted on C-SPAN, as well as C-SPAN.org and the C-SPAN Now App.Hosted by the White House Correspondents’ Association, the dinner has been a mainstay of the press corps since its founding in 1914.
Presidents have traditionally attended the dinner at least once during their term — and President Joe Biden is expected this year — but former President Donald Trump was notably absent from the dinners held in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
The dinner was canceled in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event made a splash in 2018 with host Michelle Wolf, whose raunchy jokes about the Trump administration and others led to both praise and backlash, notably from Trump himself, who swore he wouldn’t let a comedian host the dinner again.However, under the Biden administration, that no longer seems to be the case.
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