India, July 25 -- US President Trump returned to the White House Correspondents' Association dinner for the first time as president, delivering an hour-long speech that swung between calls for unity and a barrage of familiar insults aimed at journalists and political opponents. Held under tightened security after a gunman disrupted the original April event, the rescheduled dinner saw the president's jokes draw more stunned silence than laughter, even as he insisted several bits had landed.

President Trump made his long-delayed debut at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner as a sitting president on Friday night, delivering an hour-long address that lurched between calls for reconciliation with the press and a stream of insul...