Three months after a gunman's shotgun blast scattered hundreds of guests into the Washington night, the White House correspondents' dinner reconvened — smaller, more guarded, and weighted with memory. Donald Trump, who boycotted the event throughout his first term and has waged sustained legal and institutional battles against the press, addressed the assembled journalists for the first time as a sitting president. The evening was less a celebration than a reckoning: with violence, with the fragile conventions that hold adversarial institutions together, and with the question of whether such r
Trump addresses rescheduled correspondents' dinner after April shooting halted original event
Secret Service officer Victor Gonzales was shot and wounded during the April attack while helping to stop the gunman.