One of the swampy spring media-insider events every year is the Gridiron Club dinner, and Team Trump decided this year that it didn’t feel like playing nice. It sounds like they weren’t nice. Puck’s Dylan Byers reported those in attendance did not toast the president for the first time in the dinner’s history. Instead, the journalists toasted the First Amendment.
In the same way that White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced to Sean Spicer this week that she’s not attending the White House Correspondents Dinner, they’re go to act a different way in the second term. They’re still granting far more access to Team Biden, but they don’t need to pander to a hostile press at Saturday night dinners.
PBS correspondent (and retired News Hour anchor) Judy Woodruff, the president of the Gridiron Club who emceed the dinner, told Politico in a…
