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CatWoman

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Mon Apr 6, 2026, 05:00 PM Monday

Beltway Journos To Wear SUCK IT, TRUMP Pocket Squares To Correspondents' Dinner [View all]

What if we told you they were DESIGNED BY JAKE TAPPER?

Think of all the brave protest movements against violent and totalitarian governments in history. The civil rights heroes who fought for American equality, particularly in the South. The Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto. The democracy advocates slaughtered at Tiananmen Square. For example.

To that list, we can now add the White House press corps, apparently.

Ah, the brave, brave journalists of the Washington press corps. They have for many decades gathered on a Saturday in April for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Dressed in their rented Men’s Wearhouse finery, they would nibble canapés while mingling with whatever Hollywood celebrities were lending the dinner a touch of the cool kids’ imprimatur. There is a reason why the event was affectionately nicknamed Nerd Prom.

The pocket squares and pins and other items were reportedly designed by Jake Tapper, possibly the most Beltway of Beltway reporters, and you can buy them yourself with a donation to the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-193373175

Journalists plan to make a subtle but pointed statement with their attire at the annual gala, Status has learned, as Donald Trump prepares to attend for the first time.

https://www.status.news/

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