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    Traveling with Trump as he skipped – and skewered – the press dinner

    Apr 30, 2018 4 minutes

    Two days after comedian Michelle Wolf’s raunchy (and to some, offensive) speech at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Washington is still buzzing about her remarks.

    By contrast, President Trump’s campaign-style rally in Michigan Saturday night, staged as counter-programming to the press dinner, was a mostly forgettable 80 minutes.

    In fact, I’m probably one of the few who will remember what Mr. Trump said that night. Because I was there.

    I had a ticket to the correspondents’ dinner, but the Monitor’s turn to travel with the president and write “pool reports” – dispatches shared with the rest of the press corps

    ‘She burns facts’A red-carpet festival of chumminess

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