2028, term limits, media tension: Everything Trump covered in wild marathon speech at the White House Press Correspondents’ Association dinner

Published July 25, 2026 12:25am ET



President Donald Trump took the stage at the redo White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on Friday, sharing an at times unifying, at other times polarizing message laced with lots of jokes and several roasts of the media and members of his own administration during his one-hour speech.

Three months after a gunman breached security in an attempt to assassinate Trump and members of his Cabinet at the dinner, Trump spoke candidly about the moment. He spoke to the resilience of the White House and the press corps in rescheduling the event and addressed the assassination attempt both seriously and with a sense of lightheartedness.

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