President Trump AGREES to Attend White House Correspondents Dinner For the First Time

After years of snubbing the White House Correspondents Dinner, President Trump is switching things up this year!

He just announced that he has agreed to attend this year’s event in honor of America’s 250th Birthday.

Hilariously, President Trump also said that he decided to end his boycott of the dinner because the press now admits that he is “truly one of the Greatest Presidents in the History of our Country, the G.O.A.T., according to many!”

Read his full statement on Truth Social here:

The White House Correspondents Association has asked me, very nicely, to be the Honoree at this year’s Dinner, a long and storied tradition since it began in 1924, under then President Calvin Coolidge. In honor of our Nation’s 250th Birthday, and the fact that these “Correspondents” now admit that I am truly one of the Greatest Presidents in the History of our Country, the G.O.A.T., according to many, it will be my Honor to accept their invitation, and work to make it the GREATEST, HOTTEST, and MOST SPECTACULAR DINNER, OF ANY KIND, EVER! Because the Press was extraordinarily bad to me, FAKE NEWS ALL, right from the beginning of my First Term, I boycotted the event, and never went as Honoree. However, I look forward to being with everyone this year. Hopefully, it will be something very Special. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

This marks the first time ever that Donald Trump will attend a White House Correspondents Dinner as president.

If you don’t know, the dinner is known for its notoriously woke, liberal jokes and “entertainment.”

When Trump last attended the dinner in 2011, Obama took a hit at him.

Remember this?

🚨 JUST IN: Trump announces he WILL be going to the White House Correspondents Dinner this year, after declining every other year

The 2011 dinner, where Obama tried roasting him, is reportedly what SOLIDIFIED Trump’s decision to run for President.

Trump got the last laugh 😏🔥 pic.twitter.com/WV3tzvS5U8

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) March 2, 2026

However, it looks like, after many years of humiliating themselves, the press has finally had an epiphany.

Things are changing now.

Fox News noted:

Trump has not attended the dinner since 2011, where he was infamously mocked by Seth Meyers for his political aspirations.

“Donald Trump has been saying that he will run for president as a Republican, which is surprising because I just assumed he was running as a joke,” Meyers said at the time.

Several commentators have credited the dinner for eventually inspiring Trump to run for president in 2015.

The 2025 dinner broke tradition after the WHCA canceled comedian Amber Ruffin’s scheduled performance following White House Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich criticizing the decision to have her. Then-WHCA President Eugene Daniels said pulling Ruffin was part of an effort to move away from “the politics of division.”

This year’s dinner will happen on Saturday, April 25th at the Washington Hilton.

The host will be mentalist Oz Pearlman.

WHCA President Weijia Jiang responded to President Trump accepting the invitation to attend with this statement:

For more than 100 years, the journalists of the White House Correspondents’ Association have enjoyed an evening with the president, a dinner that celebrates the First Amendment while supporting the work we do including awards honoring excellent journalism and scholarships to help the next generation of reporters who someday will be the ones asking the questions at the White House.

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We’re happy the president has accepted our invitation and look forward to hosting him.