While the event typically hosts the sitting president, President Donald Trump was not in attendance as he was returning from the Vatican for Pope Francis’s funeral Saturday. However, he was largely not expected to attend as he didn’t during his first term. Another noticeable absence was the lack of a comedian acting as the Master of Ceremonies at the event.
Axios reporter Alex Thompson won the Aldo Beckman Award for his coverage of former President Joe Biden‘s mental decline during his time in office, which was the topic of his book, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again. Thompson originally had a contract with Simon and Schuster to release the book last year, but the publisher withdrew. Following Thompson’s public plea to find a
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