Soon enough, the competition for guests shifted from snaring the hot deputy assistant secretary to snaring the hot secretary. Suddenly the cool thing was not to be at the main event, because that meant you hadn’t been invited to the sideshow. Parties within parties. What we have now is more like mutual contempt, which can be healthy too — up to a point. More recently, in that irritating way of his, Mr. Trump has casually said that next year he will go to the dinner.

Source: New York Times May 06, 2017 18:22 UTC