ANOTHER ANTI-TRUMP INSTITUTION HAS SELF-DESTRUCTED: How Trump Took the Shine Off Washington’s Glitziest Night: The White House Correspondents’ Dinner is shrinking back to the boring awards ceremony journalists claimed to prefer. They have one man to thank. “After a decade or more in which it built into a kind of fantasy weekend for political journalists—allowing a group drawn disproportionately from geeks and smart-alecks and clumsy kids picked last for dodgeball at last to sit at the cool kids’ table—the WHCD today is, at best, in a semi-flaccid state.”