Washington, July 25 -- President Trump's return to the White House Correspondents' Dinner didn't go the way he might have hoped. In a rambling speech that stretched close to an hour, the president took aim at journalists by name, recycled old nicknames for his political rivals, and leaned heavily on fat jokes that mostly landed with silence.
At one point he seemed to acknowledge the material wasn't working, asking the room, "Does anyone understand this stuff?" to which the answer, by most accounts, was no, CNN reported.
While the president began his remarks by commending the law enforcement officers who helped thwart this attempted assassination, he eventually turned to ridiculing individual reporters in the audience, taking aim at CNN's ...