Welcome friends and neighbors to The Late Show.

I'm your host Stephen Colbert.

Ladies gentlemen, how are you guys good?

Good.

Good to see you.

Folks, I try to remember not to be in Washington, D.C.

as often as possible.

But there is certainly no time I am there less than the weekend of the White not to be in Washington, D.C., as often as possible.

But there is certainly no time I am there less than the weekend of the White House Correspondence Dinner,

which is why this Saturday I will again not be.

But...

And it's a big but.

But for reasons that are not clear to me, many others will.

If you're not familiar with the White House correspondent's dinner,

it is traditionally a lighthearted night when the press and politicians get together

and, in my personal experience, stare in dead-eyed silence of the performer

while the president mentally orders a hit by C-Ail Team 6.

And this Saturday's dinner will be historic because this, for the first time, as president, Donald Trump is attending.

And reportedly, in his remarks,

he's planning to attack the press

and target publications he is accused of writing negatively

about his administration.

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