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Trump's relationship with the media on display at Correspondents' Dinner

NPR | By Tamara Keith,

David Folkenflik

Published July 24, 2026 at 4:14 PM CDT

President Trump is set to speak tonight at the rescheduled White House Correspondents dinner despite his difficult relationship with the press.

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Tamara Keith has been a White House correspondent for NPR since 2014 and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast, the top political news podcast in America. Keith has chronicled the Trump administration from day one, putting this unorthodox presidency in context for NPR listeners, from early morning tweets to executive orders and investigations. She covered the final two years of the Obama presidency, and during the 2016 presidential campaign she was assigned to cover Hillary Clinton. In 2018, Keith was elected to serve on the board of the White House Correspondents' Association.

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