The Guardian · US news · Original story
Trump forced to play good sport at correspondents’ dinner – but it couldn’t last
President’s speech started well enough but quickly moved to the usual insults, taunts, jokes and grievances
This time, at least, everyone got to finish their dinner.
And any urge to hide under the table was driven not by the barking commands of Secret Service agents on alert against a marauding gunman, but by a desire to escape the tedium of a meandering speech from Donald Trump that strayed quickly and wildly from the matter at hand into the weeds of his normal stump addresses.
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Robert Tait in Washington · Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 1:58 AM
US news | The Guardian
President’s speech started well enough but quickly moved to the usual insults, taunts, jokes and grievances
This time, at least, everyone got to finish their dinner.
And any urge to hide under the table was driven not by the barking commands of Secret Service agents on alert against a marauding gunman, but by a desire to escape the tedium of a meandering speech from Donald Trump that strayed quickly and wildly from the matter at hand into the weeds of his normal stump addresses.
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