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The Wrath of The Don? Nervous TV Bosses Don't Want Their Anchors 'Front-And-Center Like Sitting Ducks' at White House Correspondents' Dinner — Fearing Rogue Trump Could Demolish Them

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Donald Trump finally accepted an invitation to the WHCA dinner.

April 10 2026, Published 1:16 p.m. ET

Donald Trump is gearing up for a bombshell first-ever appearance at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and the mere prospect has some of the biggest names in network news sweating nervous bullets, Breaking Celebrity News can reveal.

The president is finally set to attend after a combined total of six years in office, and insiders say he plans to seize control of the room packed with left-leaning journalists, leaving some networks nervously debating whether they even want their top talent in rogue Trump’s direct line of wrath.

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Networks Worried About Top Talent Being 'Sitting Ducks' for Trump

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Donald Trump is attending his first WCHA dinner after six years as president.

"The networks are all having real discussions about having their talent front-and-center like sitting ducks," a political insider told Page Six Hollywood. "A couple of them are really thinking what that's gonna be like."

Trump is notorious for speaking off the cuff, and that has network bosses fearing for their top talent.

"The main talent tends to be clustered toward the front, and you can see them pretty well," the insider spilled. "For someone [Trump] who doesn't stay on a script or on a prompter, that's sort of the unknown."

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A New Twist in WHCA Headliner

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Left-leaning comedian Trevor Noah headlined the WHCA dinner in 2022.

The event is taking place on April 25 at the Washington Hilton, and Trump has already removed one potential source of humiliation by replacing the usual comedian emcee with mentalist Oz Pearlman as the headliner.

Recent hosts have included Saturday Night Live Weekend Update star Colin Jost and The Daily Show's Trevor Noah. Headliners have also included late-night hosts Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel.

"They don't have a comedian this year; they have an illusionist, which is very strange because everyone is going to want to make themselves disappear," the insider noted.