Donald Trump will attend the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner as president for the first time on Saturday.
It’s not completely clear why Trump chose now to end his boycott of the annual event dedicated to celebrating the importance of the free press he so regularly scorns. Maybe he’s hoping to intimidate journalists in the room, but they’ve gotten used to that. Here’s a list of some of the current Trump administration’s most notable attempts to browbeat the press.
The ‘Your Mom’ Incident
In October, when HuffPost White House Correspondent S.V. Dáte reached out to administration spokespeople with an innocuous question about who chose Budapest as the site for a meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, press secretary Karoline Leavitt refused to answer. Instead, she replied with a bizarre schoolyard joke.
“Your mom did,” she retorted.
