President Donald Trump does not need to pander to legacy media and the elites are melting down that no one seems to care.
“For the first time in its history, the Gridiron Club did not toast the sitting president at its annual dinner,” Politico breathlessly reported in a story titled, “Trump gets a cold shoulder from elite DC media.”
“For the first time in the 140-year history of the Gridiron Club Dinner, those gathered did not offer the traditional toast to the sitting U.S. president. Instead, leading members of the Washington press corps paid tribute to the First Amendment,” the outlet noted, explaining that – surprise – Trump and Vice President JD Vance declined to attend.
Hello @politico,
You need to stop calling yourselves and your friends ‘elite’ media. First, because it’s not true. Most importantly, it shows people that you are full of yourselves. https://t.co/FnGjJAYsG8— Sam E. Antar (@SamAntar) March 17, 2025
Politico dramatically noted there was a “coldness” at the “annual white-tie, off-camera and bipartisan dinner.”
Clutching their pearls over the treatment of some so-called news outlets, Politico reported:
Gridiron members drew applause for stating their support for the Associated Press, currently barred from covering official White House events, and the Voice of America, which the White House Saturday said would be stripped back by executive order to “ensure taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda.” Meanwhile, the White House recently kicked HuffPost out of the press pool for an event last month, the newswires Reuters and Bloomberg have been forced to share a spot, and the White House Correspondents Association is reeling after the White House took control of the pool from it.
The president of the Gridiron Club, PBS correspondent Judy Woodruff told Politico in a statement: “I invited the President, the Vice President, the National Security Adviser, and the Interior Secretary — all declined. I was told the Secretary of State would not be available.”
“To close the evening — when the sitting President usually speaks — we showed video and audio excerpts of the past four Republican presidents, starting with President Trump in 2018,” she said. “These demonstrated the good humor and fellowship this dinner is all about.”
Evidently, that sentiment was expressed in insults at the dinner as described by a New York Times headline that read, “At Gridiron Dinner, Jokes About Trump, Musk and Russia Abound.”
Woodruff reportedly “opened up the room with jokes about Mr. Musk’s fathering so many children and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s drinking.”
“The administration didn’t send a representative to speak for the first time in recent memory,” Politico lamented, quoting a White House official who said, “Nobody went because either we were busy working or we just don’t care to be recognized by that crowd.”
The shocked and hurt “elites” were mocked in countless social media posts.
Fixed it for you: Trump gives cold shoulder to corrupt DC media.
— Dennis K. Tran (@DennisKTran1) March 17, 2025
This is a win!
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) March 16, 2025
I didn’t think I could get any happier about voting for Trump, then I read this.
The “elite DC media” doesn’t exist, it’s merely a propaganda arm of the DNC that half the country despises.
— Texas Darlin’ (@TexitDarling) March 17, 2025
Trump doesn’t give a shit about elite DC media dumbasses. https://t.co/MLYlsdj3kZ pic.twitter.com/jxuTQbC4mW
— Ginger McFall (@GingerMcFall) March 16, 2025
Stop giving me more reasons to support Trump.
PS- “elite DC media” is an oxymoron. They are a complete joke outside of the insanely tiny echo chamber they live in.
— IT Guy (@ITGuy1959) March 16, 2025
“Exterminator gets a cold shoulder from rats”
Same energy.
— Calamity Jen (@realjenx) March 16, 2025
Not quite the own the “elite DC media” thinks it is. https://t.co/b66Mdc3X7G
— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) March 17, 2025
https://t.co/jk8JejAuho pic.twitter.com/kW6xxaZWDB
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) March 16, 2025
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