White House correspondents’ dinner rescheduled for July after shooting

The White House correspondents’ dinner will be rescheduled for 24 July after the Washington event was abruptly cancelled this spring following a shooting . Donald Trump, who was swiftly evacuated from the gala following the incident on 25 April, has pledged to attend a rescheduled event. Confirming his attendance and plan to speak at July’s event, the president said: “I don’t know whether or not I will give the same rather nasty statements, at least as it concerns certain people, but we will soon find out. In any event, it will be a ‘HOT’ ticket!” It’s not clear yet whether the dinner will be held at the Washington Hilton hotel, where it initially took place, considering security concerns about the layout of the building. Trump claimed the venue will be the Waldorf Astoria, which his Trump Organization used to own. In an email to White House reporters, Weijia Jiang, president of the organizing White House Correspondent Association (WHCA), said details about the location, tickets and the programming “will follow soon” – and that the event “will feature significantly enhanced safety measures and new access procedures”. Jiang said the dinner will be a more “intimate gathering”, suggesting it will not resemble the mass gathering of thousands of tuxedo-ed journalists and politics that typically takes place every year. …