Yesterday, Twitchy covered another one of Washington, DC's 'nerd proms' over the weekend, the Gridiron Club Dinner. Each year, journos get together to pat themselves on the back and remind each other how much more important they are than everyone else. This year's gathering of the dweebs marked the first time in 140 years that the sitting President was not toasted at the event. This was primarily because President Trump and everyone in the administration told the Gridiron Dinner to get bent, they were not going to attend.
But, like a dorky teenager dumped by a much better-looking girlfriend, the media has decided to frame the breakup through pure projection. 'No, no. She didn't break up with ME. I broke up with HER.'
Here is Politico (perhaps the dorkiest teenager of them all) lamenting the fact that the DC elite media is now giving Trump 'a cold shoulder.'
Trump gets a cold shoulder from elite DC media https://t.co/CV0y4OOmvf
— POLITICO (@politico) March 16, 2025
Oh, honey. It's so sad that you think you have a say in any of this at all.
The broken ritual, which came after President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance declined to attend, capped off a night of ominous signs about the state of the Washington media’s fraught relationship with the Trump administration.
Gridiron members drew applause for stating their support for the Associated Press, currently barred from covering official White House events, and the Voice of America, which the White House Saturday said would be stripped back by executive order to 'ensure taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda.' Meanwhile, the White House recently kicked HuffPost out of the press pool for an event last month, the newswires Reuters and Bloomberg have been forced to share a spot, and the White House Correspondents Association is reeling after the White House took control of the pool from it.
LOL. 'Trump broke up with us, so we're not going to give him the flowers we bought for him. Instead, we're going to cheer for all of the other dweebs he's dumped. Take THAT!'
Politico's attempt to reframe the Gridiron Dinner snub wasn't fooling anyone.
Fixed it for you: Trump gives cold shoulder to corrupt DC media.
— Dennis K. Tran (@DennisKTran1) March 17, 2025
LOL. He GAVE them the cold shoulder. They're not elite media, they're low-impact activists.
— Paulette Varghese Altmaier (@PauletteAlt) March 17, 2025
Oh, Politico's attempt to brand themselves and their fellow journos as 'elite' didn't go over very well either.
I didn’t think I could get any happier about voting for Trump, then I read this.
— Texas Darlin' 🎀 (@TexitDarling) March 17, 2025
The “elite DC media” doesn’t exist, it’s merely a propaganda arm of the DNC that half the country despises.
WAY more than half of the country despises them. Even the far-left extremists hate them for not being Communist apparatchiks enough.
Stop giving me more reasons to support Trump.
— IT Guy (@ITGuy1959) March 16, 2025
PS- “elite DC media” is an oxymoron. They are a complete joke outside of the insanely tiny echo chamber they live in.
Not quite the own the “elite DC media” thinks it is. https://t.co/b66Mdc3X7G
— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) March 17, 2025
Youth soccer isn’t the only one that misuses the word elite. https://t.co/1OFX22Tg1X
— Mark Root (@Markroot14) March 17, 2025
Frankly, little kids playing soccer deserve the adjective a lot more than the DC media does.
“Elite” media 😂😂😂😂😂 https://t.co/aNH3kY9UHN
— …pass the beer nuts (@3_Dawgs) March 16, 2025
"Exterminator gets a cold shoulder from rats"
— Calamity Jen (@realjenx) March 16, 2025
Same energy.
HA. 'Rats' is far more appropriate than 'elite.'
Maybe the most hilarious part, however, is that Politico thinks that Trump -- or anyone else in America -- cares about this even a little bit.
BREAKING: Neither Trump nor anyone else gives a sh*t about the "elite" DC media.
— JWF (@JammieWF) March 16, 2025
Elite lol.
I think Trump is okay with this https://t.co/9uA0ywl6HI
— Matthew Foldi (@MatthewFoldi) March 16, 2025
ooooh noooo. not the Elite Media™. the same people who act like Democrat press secretaries don't like Donald Trump??? I'm soooo shocked. How will we ever recover from this??? https://t.co/oDtCxnG55c
— Abigail Jackson 🇺🇸 (@abigailmarone) March 17, 2025
https://t.co/fMyqh3WRqn pic.twitter.com/r4Cq6U4J43
— Lovable Little Fuzzball (@hardcorepatri0t) March 16, 2025
— HighAsGas (@STrotte65758704) March 16, 2025
Best ... meme ... EVER.
And after four years of the media lying to America about Joe Biden and covering for his dementia, the 'elite media' getting the treatment from Trump that they deserve is a breath of fresh air.
I voted for this https://t.co/ov6pUxeedi
— Alexa Henning (@DNIspox) March 17, 2025
LMFAO as if this is a bad thing.
— Spitfire (@DogRightGirl) March 16, 2025
Stop, we already love him!!!
— Whale Psychiatrist ™️ (@k_ovfefe2) March 16, 2025
Politico's tweet was, of course, buried under a huge ratio and the best part is that they still don't understand why.
This graphic might help them out a little bit.
when this is what you celebrate, why do you think we want you to like us? pic.twitter.com/XgvFWkBSxg
— Jessica Montgomery (@jessicanolanova) March 17, 2025
Or, to put it another way ...
— Abigail Jackson 🇺🇸 (@abigailmarone) March 17, 2025
Exactly.
Like most dweeby teenagers, however, Politico and the 'elite' DC media aren't entirely out of options now that Trump and most of America have dumped them.
There's always the alternative of finding a girlfriend 'who lives in Canada.'
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