{"id":359034,"date":"2018-04-30T08:55:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T07:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-blasts-white-house-correspondents-dinner\/"},"modified":"2018-04-30T08:55:13","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T07:55:13","slug":"presstv-trump-blasts-white-house-correspondents-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-blasts-white-house-correspondents-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Trump blasts White House correspondents&#8217; dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump has escalated his long-running war with the mainstream media by assailing the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association (WHCA).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A day after former &#8220;Daily Show&#8221; comedian\u00a0Michelle Wolf targeted Trump and his aides on national television, Trump on Sunday night slammed the annual correspondents&#8217; dinner as &#8220;an embarrassment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The president went on to describe Wolf&#8217;s stand-up act as &#8220;filthy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner was a failure last year, but this year was an embarrassment to everyone associated with it,\u201d Trump tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe filthy \u2018comedian\u2019 totally bombed (couldn\u2019t even deliver her lines-much like the Seth Meyers weak performance). Put Dinner to rest, or start over!\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was referencing Meyers&#8217; 2011 performance in which he ripped into Trump. At that event, even then-President Barack Obama mocked Trump, who at the time was leading the so-called &#8220;birther&#8221; movement against&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/04\/30\/560144\/Trump-blasts-White-House-correspondents-dinner\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has escalated his long-running war with the mainstream media by assailing the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association (WHCA). A day after former &#8220;Daily Show&#8221; comedian\u00a0Michelle Wolf targeted Trump and his aides on national television, Trump on Sunday night slammed the annual correspondents&#8217; dinner as &#8220;an embarrassment.&#8221; The president went on to describe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-359034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}