2026年4月25日 / 美国东部时间下午3:17 / 美联社
唐纳德·特朗普预计将以总统身份首次出席周六在华盛顿举办的年度白宫记者协会晚宴，这将把他的政府与媒体之间时常紧张对立的关系公之于众。
特朗普将受到密切关注，这场活动由报道他及其政府的记者组织举办。往届出席晚宴的总统通常都会谈及言论自由和第一修正案的重要性，还会穿插调侃个别记者的轻松段子。
这位共和党籍总统在其第一任期以及第二任期的第一年都未出席过该晚宴。2011年，他以嘉宾身份出席，坐在观众席中观看时任民主党总统巴拉克·奥巴马针对这位纽约地产大亨发表调侃笑话。特朗普还曾以普通公民身份在2015年出席过该晚宴。
往届晚宴还会邀请喜剧演员调侃总统。今年，该协会邀请了心灵魔术师奥兹·珀尔曼担任特邀表演嘉宾。
特朗普的计划出席再次引发了围绕该晚宴及类似活动的长期争议——尤其是记者与他们报道的对象社交是否有失体面。例如，《纽约时报》十多年前就因该原因停止出席该晚宴。
“曾经（在相当久以前）是专业对手间出于善意举办的筹款与联谊之夜，如今却完全变了味，”新闻智库波因特研究所的伦理专家凯利·麦克布赖德写道。
紧张对立的关系
从斥责个别记者、在法庭上与《纽约时报》《华尔街日报》和美联社等机构对峙，到限制媒体进入五角大楼，特朗普政府对记者的敌意一直是其第二任期的标志性特征。
晚宴前夕，近500名退休记者签署请愿书，呼吁该协会“明确反对特朗普总统践踏新闻自由的行为”。
“白宫记者协会晚宴彰显了第一修正案在我国民主中的重要性，”白宫记者协会主席、哥伦比亚广播公司新闻资深白宫记者魏佳江说道。“值此美国建国250周年之际，我们选择齐聚一堂，记者、新闻人物和总统共处一室，这提醒着我们新闻自由对这个国家意味着什么，以及为何它必须存续下去。这不是为了媒体或总统，而是为了依赖新闻自由的民众。”
然而，许多出席晚宴的记者认为，这是一个获取新闻线索、与政府官员建立私人联系的宝贵机会，未来这些联系可能会带来回报，比如能更顺利地接通采访电话。
部分新闻机构会邀请消息人士作为嘉宾
记者通常会邀请消息人士作为晚宴嘉宾。外界将在周六留意那些同样对媒体抱有敌意的政府官员是否会出席，以及他们将与谁同坐。
美联社邀请了前白宫副幕僚长泰勒·布多维奇作为嘉宾，他于去年秋季离职进入私营部门。此次邀请值得关注，因为布多维奇在负责制定白宫沟通政策期间，去年美联社起诉特朗普政府时，他被列为被告之一——此前该政府缩减了美联社的总统采访权限，原因是这家新闻机构未跟随特朗普的说法重新命名墨西哥湾。
“我们与不同政治立场的人士保持职业关系，因为我们本质上是无党派的——专注于为公众利益报道事实，”美联社发言人帕特里克·马克斯说道。
白宫记者协会还将颁发优秀报道奖。其中包括一些令特朗普不满的报道，例如《华尔街日报》关于特朗普曾向被定罪的性犯罪者杰弗里·埃普斯坦发送生日祝福的报道。该报道引发了总统的诉讼。
Trump expected to make his first appearance as president at White House Correspondents’ Association dinner
April 25, 2026 / 3:17 PM EDT / AP
Donald Trump’s expected attendance at Saturday’s annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington for his first time as president will put his administration’s often-contentious relationship with the press on full public display.
Mr. Trump will be watched closely at the event held by the organization of reporters who cover him and his administration. Past presidents who have attended have generally spoken about the importance of free speech and the First Amendment, adding in some light roasts about individual journalists.
The Republican president did not attend during his first term or the first year of his second. He came as a guest in 2011, sitting in the audience as President Barack Obama, a Democrat, made some jokes about the New York real estate developer. Mr. Trump also attended as a private citizen in 2015.
Past dinners have also featured comedians who poke at presidents. This year, the group opted to hire mentalist Oz Pearlman as the featured entertainment.
Mr. Trump’s planned appearance is rekindling a longer running debate about the dinner and events like it — in particular, whether it is poor form for journalists to be seen socializing with the people they cover. The New York Times, for example, stopped attending the dinner more than a decade ago for that reason.
“What was once (a fairly long time ago) a well-intended night of fundraising and camaraderie among professional adversaries is now simply a bad look,” wrote Kelly McBride, ethics expert at the Poynter Institute, a journalism think tank.
A contentious relationship
Between berating individual reporters, fighting organizations like the Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Associated Press in court and restricting press access to the Pentagon, the administration’s animus toward journalists has been a fixture of Mr. Trump’s second term.
On the eve of the dinner, nearly 500 retired journalists signed a petition calling on the association “to forcefully demonstrate opposition to President Trump’s efforts to trample freedom of the press.”
“The White House Correspondents’ dinner reinforces the importance of the First Amendment in our democracy,” said the WHCA president and CBS News’ senior White House correspondentWeijia Jiang. “As we mark America’s 250th birthday, our choice to gather as journalists, newsmakers and the president in the same room is a reminder of what a free press means to this country and why it must endure. Not for the media or the president, but for the people who depend on it.”
Many reporters who attend, however, consider it a valuable opportunity to get story ideas and establish personal connections with those in government, one that may pay dividends with returned telephone calls in the future.
Some news organizations invite sources as guests
Journalists often invite sources as guests at the dinner. It will be noticed Saturday whether administration officials who have also expressed hostility to the press will attend, and with whom they will be sitting.
The AP has invited Taylor Budowich, a former White House deputy chief of staff who left last fall for the private sector. The invitation is notable because Budowich, in his role crafting White House communications policy, was a named defendant last year when the AP sued the administration after it reduced its access to the president because the news outlet did not follow Mr. Trump’s lead in renaming the Gulf of Mexico.
“We maintain professional relationships with people across the political spectrum because we are nonpartisan by design — focused on reporting the facts in the public’s interest,” AP spokesman Patrick Maks said.
The White House correspondents will also hand out awards for exemplary reporting. That includes some stories that displeased Mr. Trump, such as one from the Journal about a birthday message Trump once sent to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The story led to a presidential lawsuit.
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