On Saturday night, President Trump was not having the sort of evening he prefers. Nothing about Trump’s attendance at the annual dinner of the Gridiron Club, an elite group of 65 top Washington journalists, made a lot of sense. Of the turmoil roiling the White House staff, he offered this quip: “So many people have been leaving the White House,” he said. Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, both top White House advisers, were there, as were White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and National Security Agency Director Michael S. Rogers. Though he could dish it out, often very harshly, no one thought he could take it.”CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article misstated the year in which President Trump did not attend the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.

Source: Washington Post March 04, 2018 05:02 UTC