It turns out the creepiest thing about this year’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner wasn’t incoming WHCA President Eugene Daniels’ increasingly perverse wardrobe, but the giddy attendance of Lara Trump.
Recall the “dinner” as Washington DC’s annual tradition wherein TV news people, newspaper reporters, and White House officials let it all hang out to drink and selfie with C-list celebrities for a week, all under the pretense of awarding scholarships to budding reporters. During Donald Trump’s term, a few administration staffers attended but the president never did. In retrospect, that was kind of a quaint time of personal animus rarely exceeding a few childish insults traded between Trump and the nerds who wrote about him.
In 2024, it’s not so cute. Lara’s father-in-law has since
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