commentary Donald Trump is set to attend, but no dinner speech can redeem his abusive treatment of reporters Published April 24, 2026 9:30AM (EDT) President Donald Trump has discredited, insulted and abused reporters (Chen Mengtong/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images) Donald Trump is the greatest human to ever populate the planet — at least as he tells it. And he has a great plan, whatever it is at any given moment to satisfy wherever his latest whim has taken him.  This weekend it will take him to the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner for the first time as president, where he’ll be sure to remind the audience of increasingly friendly and compliant reporters — softened by buyouts and diluted by right-wing propagandists posing as independent reporters — of his greatness. Trump has refused every invitation from the White House Correspondents Association since his first administration.…