MSNBC host Nicole Wallace absurdly claimed that former president Donald Trump would abolish the “free press” if he wins the presidential election in November.
While discussing the White House’s annual star-studded dinner, inviting journalists who cover Joe Biden to the event, Wallace warned of “something darker” on the horizon if Trump becomes president.
“The president of the United States dines and then tries to entertain assembled members of the free press,” Wallace said.
“The annual White House correspondents’ dinner is one of the symptoms, one of the signs, of a healthy functioning democracy.”
“A one-night-only hiatus from the normal in Washington and an opportunity to suspend those more formal aspects of the relationship between a president and the news media,” she said.
“It’s coming together.”
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“At its core, the president doing everything right celebrates and honors the free press,” she continued.
“Behind the levity, though, there was something darker, a darker undercurrent, if you will, and a point that the president had to make.”
“It was more profoundly serious because at this exact time next year, depending what happens in November, seven months from now, we can’t say for certain that there would even be a White House correspondents’ dinner, or even a free press, or even a White House press corps. Right?”
“You don’t have to have one, could be another norm Trump blows up,” Wallce continued.
“The stakes of the 2024 election are a living, breathing subplot of this year’s White House correspondents’ dinner.”
“It came up in the jokes, came up in the inherent contrast between President Joe Biden, there in the room, and the coup-plotting openly autocratic modeling of himself Donald Trump, who wants to replace him,” Wallace stated.
After playing the clip from dinner in which Jost told a story about his grandfather to Biden, Wallce said the toast from the president “landed differently this year.”
“Because depending what happens in November, seven months from right now, this time next year I might not be sitting here,” she continued.
“There might not there might not be a White House correspondents’ dinner or free press.”
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