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New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker tweeted on X on Saturday that it is time for the White House Correspondents’ Association to “rethink” its annual dinner with the president, after the event with President Donald Trump did not “advance” the cause of reporting “without fear or favor.” As if that motto isn’t ridiculous at this point? “Have been a member of the WHCA almost continuously since the 1990s. Our mission is to defend the First Amendment rights of White House correspondents to report on the president without fear or favor. Unfortunately last night did advance that cause,” Baker posted. “Time to rethink the dinner.”He elaborated on that argument on MS NOW with Alex Witt over the weekend, noting the president is suing journalists and issuing subpoenas for their work. That’s funny, because his hero President Obama ordered more leak investigations into reporters than all previous presidents combined. But they were celebrating him at White House reporter dinners just the same. Friends and political allies make for warm dinners.On MS NOW, @nytimes chief White House correspondent Peter Baker elaborated on his weekend theme, how Trump has ruined the White House Correspondents Dinner, as he’s suing the BBC and other media outlets. Notice Baker just claims it’s for coverage “he doesn’t like,” and doesn’t go… pic.twitter.com/Q7oyYGKPaa— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) July 27, 2026 After the first wave of reaction, Baker felt compelled to add another tweet: “To be clear, this is not a new position. The NY Times decided nearly 20 years ago, long before Trump, that we would stop attending, which was our policy under Obama and Biden. (The exception was for reporters if they won a prize to be awarded.) Last night validated that decision.”Conservatives like Stephen “Redsteeze” Miller posted photos of Baker smiling next to President Biden at the dinner. Two years ago, he received the WHCD award for “Excellence in Presidential News Coverage Under Deadline Pressure,” which came with a $2,500 prize.Baker was honored for a story on then-President Joe Biden’s trip to Israel just days after the 10/7 Hamas terrorist attack. It was not without favor. “News analysis” of Democrat presidents reads more like slop from the White House press shop, or as the WHCD put it, a “sensitive assessment”: In a way, Mr. Biden flew to Israel on Wednesday to give the whole country a hug, to say how much America grieves with Israel and stands by Israel and has Israel’s back. But with the hug came a whisper in the ear as well, a gentle warning not to give in to the “primal feeling,” not to let overwhelming grief or overpowering anger drive the country to go too far, as he believes America did after Sept. 11, 2001.By contrast, in February, Baker unloaded a 3,000 word hit piece headlined “A Superman, Jedi and Pope — Trump’s Relentless Bid to Mythologize Himself.” Baker himself wrote a gushy Obama tribute book in 2017 complete with color photographs titled Obama: The Call to History. After Trump’s first term, Baker and his wife Susan Glasser wrote a Trump book celebrated as a “scorched-earth” account in 2022 titled The Divider. In 2024, Baker wrote a “news analysis” nudging voters to pick the Democrats with the question “If a Felon Becomes President, Can Anyone Limit His Power?”“The revolutionary hero Patrick Henry knew this day would come,” Baker began. Henry “feared that eventually a criminal might occupy the presidency and use his powers to thwart anyone who sought to hold him accountable.” In Henry’s words, “Away with your president, we will have a king.”Never mind that historians pointed out Henry was inveighing against the Constitution before it was ratified. Baker channeled the Democrat line: “The notion that 34 felonies is not automatically disqualifying and a convicted criminal can be a viable candidate for commander in chief upends two and a half centuries of assumptions about American democracy.”

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