Trump returns to Correspondents’ Dinner, first time since 2011 roast

[0:00] tomorrow night's white house correspondence dinner is already attracting some of the biggest names in [0:04] politics media and entertainment and no one will have more eyes on them though or cameras than [0:10] president trump himself who is actually going to be making his very first appearance ever as president [0:17] and yes as for tomorrow night i hope that we will see all of you there i know the president [0:22] is very much looking forward to it i think it's quite fitting that in our nation's 250th year [0:27] the most transparent and accessible president will be attending the white house correspondence [0:31] center for the first time and his speech will be very entertaining that is what i will tell you [0:37] now we don't know what will happen when the president takes the stage tomorrow night we do [0:41] know though what it was like the last time he appeared at the white house correspondence dinner [0:46] and then of course there's donald trump donald trump has been saying that he will run for president as [0:52] a republican which is surprising since i just assumed he was running as a joke but the jokes directed at [0:59] donald trump during the 2011 white house correspondence dinner didn't stop there donald trump is here [1:06] tonight now i know that he's taken some flack lately but no one is happier no one is prouder to put this [1:20] birth certificate matter to rest than the donald and that's because he can finally get back to focusing [1:29] on the issues that matter like did we fake the moon landing what really happened in roswell and where are [1:42] biggie and tupac say what you will about uh mr trump he certainly would bring some change to the white [1:49] house see what we've got up there now he hasn't gone quite that far but the president who spent decades [2:00] as a developer before taking office has certainly been putting his own touch on the white house this time [2:05] around inside and out there's construction here at the white house as the president's ballroom is being [2:11] built right now which has prompted multiple lawsuits and also the colonnade leading to the west wing and the [2:16] oval office itself have been transformed basically in the president's style which means gold and more [2:23] gold now after that speech that president obama gave president trump responded to the scathing jabs from [2:29] the president at the time and downplayed it i've been there before so i knew what i was getting into sort [2:34] of the lion's den i looked at my wife i said is this a good thing or a bad thing am i supposed to be [2:41] honored or am i supposed to hide under the table i wasn't exact so i sort of just sat there and listened and [2:46] took it in but it was actually a little bit amazing i will faithfully execute but when he [2:52] won the white house five years later the president did not return to the white house correspondence [2:58] dinner president trump is snubbing next saturday's white house correspondence dinner but we found out [3:03] yesterday he will be counter programming it he's got a prime time rally planned in pennsylvania [3:08] kaylin what are you going to do it i'll be at the dinner throughout his entire first term president [3:12] trump never attended so why do you think the president is not here tonight if those if that's [3:16] what this dinner is it embodies essentially a toast to a free press why why was the president [3:21] president not attend tonight the president has enormous demands on his schedule the correspondence [3:26] center is too negative i like positive things okay but after returning to office for his second term [3:32] the president announced he would indeed attend the dinner that's a toast to the first amendment [3:37] explaining it this way every joke was about me and i sort of liked it i can handle that stuff [3:46] and my political sources are back with me scott and paul i mean it really did become this urban [3:51] legend that trump ran for president because obama made fun of him at that dinner in 2011. is it an urban [3:57] legend i don't know he talked about it before that i rather i rather enjoyed watching barack obama choose [4:02] to seal the fate of the democratic party there with those ill-advised jokes at the expense of donald trump [4:08] because just a few years later trump broke every democrat's heart in the country when he defeated [4:13] hillary clinton i'm glad he's going by the way donald trump is the funniest working comedian in the [4:17] united states today he has a chance to do something amazing tomorrow night we'll see what he does [4:22] well i i will say he has been as transparent more transparent any president i've ever seen [4:27] in terms of talking to you all talking to reporters taking their calls right and that's a good thing [4:33] it's the thin read i can grab because other than that he's been the biggest enemy of the first [4:37] amendment since president john adams locked up congressman matthew lyon of vermont for criticizing [4:43] him violating the sedition act in 1798 you got away to 1798 this man has been a full-on assault on the [4:49] free press since day one literally on day one began cutting funding for press freedom overseas his pentagon [4:55] has gone after journalists he's gone he sued innumerable media organizations his fcc chairman went after [5:03] jimmy kimmel now he says he wants to investigate the view it's been a full-on war on the free press [5:09] and i hope that uh in a room full of journalists maybe one or two of them can get his ear and say [5:13] hey this is our country not yours yeah i do think i mean there has been criticism scott of the fact that [5:19] he's attending the dinner at all from people who say that he's not an advocate of the first amendment [5:24] i mean there look people are pointing reports just this week from the fbi trying to investigate [5:28] a reporter who was reporting on on cash patel's travel and his girlfriend um what do you what [5:33] would you say to those people i mean i think the first five seconds of what paul said was true [5:37] he he has absolutely been the most transparent president we've ever had i mean you're there every [5:42] day meets with the press on a regular basis answers questions for hours at a time i mean he takes [5:48] calls from individual reporters on a daily basis he's calling into shows all the time the president [5:53] united states and he sues them and uses the power of the government to censor them [5:58] do you think you think the media is being censored in this country i think the fcc tried to get jimmy [6:02] kimmel fired and he was fired for a brief moment then the american people brought him back i mean i [6:06] should note the wall street journal is getting an award tomorrow night for its reporting on jeffrey [6:11] epstein and the birthday card that trump had signed a lot of that birthday book yeah but my point of that [6:17] is well i don't think that's a nice comment but my point of that was that trump is suing the wall [6:22] street journal over that and trying to get this huge legal fight with them which you know was [6:26] thrown out but he did take legal action against them because he's straight and like he has stood [6:31] up for himself what he thinks he's been treated unfairly and sometimes it works out and sometimes [6:35] it doesn't but i'll tell you one thing he doesn't take things lying down that's one of the things [6:39] republicans love about him but regarding the press and their access to the president and the oval office [6:45] and what's going on with decision making compare him to biden compare him to obama compare him to bush [6:50] clint any president it's not even close the amount of questions he takes and answers he is the [6:56] transparency is off the charts and is undeniable i i don't deny that but it's not his job to stand up [7:02] for himself it's his job to stand up for the constitution he swore an oath before god that he [7:06] would he would preserve protect and defend the constitution he attacks that first amendment [7:10] every day you know one thing one thing you mentioned in terms of democrats there are some 2028 [7:15] hopefuls who are in town california governor gavin newsom is apparently here he was spotted uh tonight on the [7:21] party circle i mean he might be there tomorrow night it is interesting to think of who will be in that [7:26] room and what this could potentially look like when the president is there tomorrow night every dinner [7:31] needs a clown we'll welcome gavin to town i mean i think the president is going to be the center of [7:36] attention what he says tomorrow night to and about the media will be obviously well covered i expect him [7:43] to be funny and he should be funny and uh and has a chance you think he should attack the media like [7:47] he does normally do i think he should or do i think he will do you think he will do i think he [7:51] should i did i said do you think i i have i have no doubt at all uh the jousting that we're used to [7:56] between the press and the media will occur tomorrow night it's censorship every president is frustrated [8:01] with the who is all the way back there's literally nobody that is said he shut down the voice of america [8:05] he defunded npr he has sued any number they have more money now than they've ever had expressing the [8:11] truth or their opinions um you can't name a single journalist who right now is incapable of speaking [8:17] negatively about donald trump in fact it's more than ever are you okay he has gone after the free [8:23] press he sued the des moines register and their pollster for accurately reporting a poll that actually [8:28] actually the poll itself was flawed but they didn't know at the time so for a flawed poll you sue a [8:34] newspaper and their pollster it's all he does it's all about him will either of you be attending [8:41] tomorrow night i'll be right here watching yes covering the covering the dinner paul will be on [8:46] the farm hauling manure which he's obviously good at scott jennings