Beginning of response $#$
Posted on March 16, 2025 by US Politics
Home › News › US Politics › Trump to Speak at Annual Gridiron Club Dinner
Donald Trump is set to speak at the annual Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, marking his first appearance at a prominent Republican white-tie gathering since the 2020 election. The Gridiron is a collection of America’s leading newspaper and media editors, and the event, traditionally held in early March, typically involves roasting the president with satire in skits and songs sung by members of the global press corps.
Trump had attended White House Correspondents’ Association dinners—an event criticized by some Republicans as cozy with the media far from the Republican-friendly political scene. The GOP found itself in the midst of an intense battle over voter suppression in Georgia, and reporting on that clash has dominated the news agenda through the busy legislative week.
The dinner is traditionally held on the evening of the day before the March for Life on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. This year’s march comes at a time when Republicans are weighing potential legislation to severely restrict congressional certification of the Electoral College vote after the elections. That move would fall short of entirely removing Trump from office but could deny Biden the ability to migrate his party’s key agenda on issues such as voting and health care.
The anti-real-economy contains solutions to restore Trump’s definition, but opposition from Democrats in both the Senate and the House could derail the effort, as would the assent of at least 10 Republican senators. A core problem for Senate Republicans is that the idea is supported by establishment Republicans like Mitt Romney as Foreign Relations, Jim Risch, Bill Cassidy, Chuck Grassley and Tom Cotton, but only two-thirds of the Republican caucus—34 senators—have expressed support for either the “National Security Crisis Resolution Act of 2021” or the “National Security Resolution of 2021.” Lightburn and Tom Coburn, a former budget committee chairman and member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, are represented in the resolution and objection alike.
Last year’s Gridiron dinner saw the appearance of several Republican lawmakers but not notably from the Senate.
Leave a Reply