President Trump used a speech at the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association dinner to denounce the political violence that interrupted the original event, while also criticising journalists and political figures. The appearance mattered because it marked his first attendance at the dinner as president and highlighted his fraught relationship with much of the press.

Trump joked about Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., former President Joe Biden and CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins, among others, despite saying he had removed harsher material from an earlier version of the speech. The dinner was held three months after a gunman wounded a Secret Service agent outside the original event; it was moved to a smaller venue with about 700 guests and tighter security.