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It apparently wasn\u2019t anti-Trump enough for him.<\/p>\n

The New York Times\u2019 chief White House correspondent\u00a0is urging the White House Correspondents Association to \u201crethink\u201d its annual dinner after President Trump dared to follow tradition and\u00a0roasted press there.<\/p>\n

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During the ritzy WHCD redo Friday, the back-patting association doled out awards to reporters for stories fiercely critical of Trump, including his past association with late sex predator Jeffrey Epstein<\/p>\n

Trump shook the hands of the journalists who worked on those scathing stories on him and sat through criticisms of his lawsuits against media outlets.<\/p>\n

But the prez eventually fired back with jabs of his own at the press, as his predecessors have been doing for years as part of the established format.<\/p>\n

The Times\u2019 top White House correspondent, Peter Baker, apparently did not approve of what went down.<\/p>\n

\u201cHave been a member of the [WHCA] almost continuously since the 1990s. Our mission is to defend the First Amendment rights of White House correspondents to report on the president without fear or favor,\u201d Baker posted on X on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately last night did not advance that cause. Time to rethink the dinner.\u201d<\/p>\n

The veteran\u00a0 reporter, who has frequently been a tough scrutinizer of Trump, also reposted a head-scratching X post from his wife, Susan Glasser, after the dinner that\u00a0 seemingly scolded journalists who participated for failing to defend the First Amendment somehow.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf journalists won\u2019t stand up for it, hard to ask everyone else to,\u201d Glasser wrote.<\/p>\n

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Throughout the president\u2019s second term in office, some prominent reporters have blasted the press for trying to be more neutral than the coverage of his first term and not being more aggressively anti-Trump.<\/p>\n

Trump had skipped all previous White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinners, breaking his boycott in April during the dinner that was interrupted by a shooting attempt by suspect Cole Tomas Allen, who has been charged.<\/p>\n

During Friday\u2019s redo of the feted event, Trump took many digs at reporters and the press in general. For example, he suggested that CNN\u2019s Kaitlan Collins looked transgender.<\/p>\n

He also joked that media outlets will go out of business once he leaves office and that their ratings will nosedive.<\/p>\n

Baker, after igniting controversy with his post, claimed that his beef with the vaunted annual dinner, which is done to raise money for scholarships, predated Trump.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTo be clear, this is not a new position. The NY Times decided nearly 20 years ago, long before Trump, that we would stop attending, which was our policy under Obama and Biden. (The exception was for reporters if they won a prize to be awarded.),\u201d Baker explained on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast night validated that decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

Baker had been given the WHCA\u2019s award for \u201cExcellence in Presidential News Coverage Under Deadline Pressure\u201d during the dinner two years ago for his coverage of former President Joe Biden\u2019s trek to Israel in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack.<\/p>\n

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New York Times\u2019 Chief White House Correspondent\u00a0Peter Baker is urging the White House Correspondents Association to \u201crethink\u201d its annual dinner after President Trump dared to follow tradition and\u00a0roasted press there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\nTop NYT journo calls on reporters to 'rethink' White House Correspondents Dinner after Trump dares to clap back - Metro Transit Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=5424\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Top NYT journo calls on reporters to 'rethink' White House Correspondents Dinner after Trump dares to clap back - 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