Trump-media beef burns a glitzy dinner
President Trump’s blood feud with the media is putting a damper on one of the glitzier gatherings of the year, the White House Correspondents Dinner, where politicos get a chance to roast and be roasted while hobnobbing with journalists and Hollywood stars.
Vanity Fair and the New Yorker both said they will not be hosting parties in conjunction with the April 29 bash.
More media companies could follow suit.
Up in the air at the moment is another pre-party bash hosted in recent years by Time and People magazines at the St. Regis. A spokeswoman on Friday declined to comment on what plans, if any, the Time Inc. titles had.
MSNBC, which normally held one of the bigger parties, also has not revealed what, if anything, it plans to do this year, although insiders are saying it is leaning to- ward hosting a bash again.
Graydon Carter, the VF editorin-chief, has famously feuded with Trump since the late 1980s when he edited Spy and labeled Trump a “small-fingered vulgarian.”
He told the New York Times he was going to go fishing on his lake in Connecticut this year.
The hottest party of this year may be the one hosted by comedian Samantha Bee, who is emceeing “Not the White House Correspondents Dinner” on the same night.
The TBS host of “Full Frontal” said she plans to use the dinner to raise money for the Committee to Protect Journalists.
And there is no word yet on whether or not Trump, who did not like it when he was roasted in past years by Seth Meyers or Barack Obama, will be attending this year’s event.
Nevertheless, despite Trump’s war on the media, there is no plan to cancel the dinner.