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  • I'm Wolf Blitzer, and I look like a guy rescued from a snow cave just in time.

  • President Trump has been invited to the White House Cora Spondent's Dinner.

  • Will he decline or attend and risk standing at a urinal between Mark Knoller and Dave Weigel?

  • Just get me up to speed.

  • Are you an incoming or outgoing cabinet member?

  • I'm actually Margaret Tolive, the president of the White House Cora Spondent's Association.

  • I just wanted to see if you'd made a decision on attending our annual dinner.

  • I'd look pretty thin-skinned if I didn't show up.

  • So I'm in, but only under the following conditions.

  • Someone tranquilizes Jim Acosta, I get two scoops of ice cream big enough to bend a shovel, and I can use Jeff Bezos as my napkin.

  • President Trump will attend the White House Cora Spondent's Dinner.

  • Breaking Fox News alert.

  • We can confirm that Chris Hayes stole his glasses from a child on a teeter-totter.

  • Can you believe the lying fake media invited me again to the White House Cora Spondent's Dinner?

  • I mean, you don't see the Central Park Five inviting me to brunch.

  • Sir, are you sure you don't want me to go in your place?

  • The press corps loves me and my Reese Witherspoon-like Southern charm.

  • Of course I'm going.

  • What am I going to do?

  • Hold a rally to harden my ego before I watch it the moment I step off stage?

  • That's great to hear, sir, and I'd be honored if you wore my clothes.

  • Is Shepard Smith gonna be there?

  • I can't believe some lucky lady hasn't snatched him up.

  • To truly understand the White House Cora Spondent's Dinner, you have to understand where the journalists in attendance sit.

  • Tables.

  • Tables didn't always look like this.

  • Here's a table from 1415 BC.

  • Scythia, I think.

  • Looks similar to what we use today.

  • Flat top, leggy things down there.

  • We'll get deeper into tables later.

  • First, let's talk about what made them possible.

  • The Big Bang.

  • Welcome to the White House Cora Spondent's Dinner.

  • Hey, it's Donald J.

  • Trump.

  • Or as you all know me, a source close to the president.

  • A lot of people complain that Washington is just a bunch of white guys talking to an audience who agrees with them.

  • But I like Pod Save America.

  • Now where's the Sinclair media table?

  • Right here, Almighty Trump.

  • The Tribune merger's going through.

  • But tonight, we're really here to honor some great people.

  • For example, Maggie Haberman.

  • Remember that lunch at the Trump Grill?

  • You got the scoop on my presidential bid.

  • And I got the bacon cheeseburger and licked the ketchup lid.

  • When did we go wrong?

  • Was it when I called you a Hillary funky?

  • You don't pay a loan.

  • Stop pretending your paper is integrity.

  • You work with Bret Stephens.

  • Work with Bret Stephens.

  • There's only so much a Rasmussen ball can do.

  • Where did we go wrong?

  • I've already lost, kill me, and I can't lose you.

  • When did we go wrong?

  • Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, Maggie Haberman.

  • You don't pay a loan.

  • Congratulations to tonight's honorees.

  • I look forward to locking you all up in the coming years.

I'm Wolf Blitzer, and I look like a guy rescued from a snow cave just in time.

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