WHCA Dinner Resumes After April Shooting, Jiang Addresses Journalists and Trump

Three months after a gunman's attack shattered one of Washington's most enduring civic rituals, the White House Correspondents' Association gathered again on a July evening to finish what violence had interrupted. The rescheduled dinner — attended by President Trump, outgoing association president Weijia Jiang, and the full assembly of journalists and political figures originally invited in April — was less a social occasion than a deliberate act of institutional will. In choosing to return rather than retreat, the press corps and the presidency together affirmed that the space where power and