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Following Trump’s cancellation of his appearance at the correspondents’ dinner, it’s not certain if the press corps will survive much longer

At the current rate of progress, every media outlet other than Fox, Breitbart, a couple of other white supremacist outlets and a few doolally Christian networks will find itself banned from the building by Wednesday afternoon

While it isn’t always easy to be a huge fan of Donald Trump’smanners, his harshest etiquette critic should allow him this. The Donald is not one to leave a dinner cancellation to the last minute.

Here he has the edge over Ronald Reagan. In 1981, Reagan rudely waited until early April to pull out of the White House correspondents’ dinner – the annual celebration of journalism and First Amendment-enshrined free speech where the president does an amusing stand-up turn, and is roasted by a comedian in return.

MORE:   http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-white-house-correspondents-dinner-not-last-much-longer-a7600521.html

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