Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late night series real time with Bill Mouk.

Okay. Do you think, Jeff, do you think the Donald Trump made the right decision by skipping

the White House correspondence dinner? Oh, something we're going to agree on. I do.

Yeah. Absolutely. It's bullshit who gives a shit. I think. Here's what I think. You know,

this is all about scholarships for kids. They pick a lot of kids from who are liberals

from liberal colleges. So basically they're using him to fundraise to create future generations.

So the first one's dinner is a charity. It fund raises for journalists, young journalists.

And that's great. I'm off for that. But, well, you know, there needs to be a little balance.

First of all, that's done a charity. It always pisses me off that everything colleges

are not a charity either. People you can give to your Harvard as an endowment of $12 trillion

dollars. And you can write that off. And also it's a dumb thing the correspondent has been here.

I've been, have I been, I've been to it. Yes. You know, take Kardashians go and somebody,

some sitcom actors have. Yeah. And they don't air the scholarship part of it. I mean, it

is a scholarship dinner, which I didn't even know until the first time that I went. And I,

I sort of even sourdered on it even though I went because, you know, quite frankly, it was sort

of historic because you have Barack Obama. You want to go and see him, you know, do this in person.

But I went the year that Baltimore was exploding. And here we are at this phase.

It's a fancy dress ball. I'm joking. Right. And outside of that hotel where we unbeknownst to any of us while we were laughing at jokes,

Baltimore was on fire. I grew up. And so that made me sour on it a bit. I grew up, to be believing that journalists were supposed to comfort the afflicted and

afflict the comfortable, not hobnob with the equipment. Right. Yes. Well said. Good news, good news this year.

The same day when we're no longer going to the White House Correspondent Association. That's the day April 29th.

There are going to be several hundred thousand climate demonstrators in DC. So there will be something for all those

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