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Trump says he may attend correspondents' dinner

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida — President Donald Trump said he may attend next year’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner now that organizers have scrapped the usual format featuring a comedian. But he may not be thrilled with the replacement.

The correspondents’ association announced this week that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow — biographer of presidents and statesmen including George Washington and Alexander Hamilton — will serve as the 2019 dinner’s featured speaker. But Chernow, like many of his fellow historians, strongly opposed Trump’s candidacy in 2016 and labeled him a “demagogue.”

That didn’t stop Trump from declaring victory Tuesday night after he arrived in Florida for a Thanksgiving-week break.

“So-called comedian Michelle Wolf bombed so badly last year,” he tweeted. “This year, for the first time in decades, they will have an author instead of a comedian.”

“Good first step in comeback of a dying evening and tradition!” he wrote, adding: “Maybe I will go?”

Presidents have traditionally attended the dinner. But not Trump.

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