Dan Pfeiffer

Your Super Bowl.

The White House corresponds to it.

My Mardi Gras, the whole thing.

Yeah.

I guess the only thing different about this year is that Trump's going to be there at the dinner for the first time since 2011, first time as president.

What do you think, though?

Has anything changed?

Has the dinner regained any of its splendor from years ago?

Don't you think it's going to be a problem when his plan runs headlong into those First Amendment pens that the reporters are wearing?

250 journalists, Dan Rather, Sam Donaldson, signed an open letter demanding that the White House Correspondents Association use the podium to condemn Trump by name and toast the First Amendment.

You think there's any chance they do that?

Yeah.

Like I saw it.

It's funny.

Cause the first time I'm like, well, that's not going to happen, but I'm like, well, why, why should I could imagine a condemnation that is not so harsh and unfair that it like, I could imagine doing it in a thoughtful way.

distasteful yeah the whole the whole thing even like the toast is crazy imagining the toast tonight that tomorrow whenever it is saturday night it's crazy it is one thing to be there with him which is like you can debate that enough but the actual toast is just what are we doing there there are two reasons to go i mean one the comedians can be good no comedian this year though right it's a mentalist forget that the the manosphere's mentalist apparently

Last question for you.

This town came out in 2013.

If you were writing the 2026 edition, what's the opening scene?

Who's the central character?