“President Donald Trump escalated his attacks on the news media over the weekend, following a blistering address at the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association dinner by posting an edited image mocking CNN’s Kaitlan Collins — a personal jab later amplified by an official White House social media account,” the Washington Post reports.
“Trump’s broadsides against the press inspired a new round of calls from media critics to end the dinner, arguing that the president’s particularly contentious relationship with the news media exposes incongruities surrounding an event designed to honor reporting on the executive branch.”
The Wrap: Kaitlan Collins shrugs off Trump’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner jab: “I was not surprised.”
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