President Trump stayed on stage for more than an hour, riffing, making jokes, and playing the hits with the latest version of his stump speech at the 2026 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, rescheduled for last night, Saturday July 25 at the Waldorf Astoria in Washington, after the first attempt was interrupted by a violent incident last month. Potentially his most biting joke was about CBS News and Iran. “Under my administration, a once feared and powerful regime that relentlessly attacked America has finally been toppled. Their former leaders have been removed, and they’re now being run by a gay dictator facing internal divisions,” he said. “But I, for one, wish Bari Weiss all the best at CBS News.” Trump joked that he plans to run for a third term in 2028, said the steak was “very special beef that Bobby Kennedy personally ran over the cow in his car,” and asked the assembled journalists if anyone was listening to “this whole freakin’ stupid speech that they wrote.”
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