New date set for White House Correspondents’ Dinner — Trump, Karoline Leavitt among big guests lined up

The Trump administration has unveiled a new date for the White House's most awaited annual dinner, nearly three months after it was postponed following a shooting.

As reported by Reuters, the White House Correspondents' Association dinner will ‌be held on July 24, 2026.

Mostly this dinner is organized by the White House Correspondents' Association and traditionally takes place at a major venue in Washington, often attended by journalists, politicians and invited guests.

It is typically held in or around the White House reporting cycle and serves both as a fundraising event and a celebration of press freedom, with speeches from journalists and sometimes the sitting U.S. president.

The organization said on Tuesday that the black-tie gathering of journalists and politicians in Washington was postponed after a ‌suspect allegedly stormed a security checkpoint and fired a shotgun outside the White House Correspondents' dinner on April 25, with U.S. President Donald Trump in attendance.

The dinner is organized by the White House Correspondents' Association and traditionally takes place at a major venue in Washington, often attended by journalists, politicians, and invited guests.

President Donald Trump said he will attend the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, which was called off in April after a gunman opened fire inside the Washington Hilton.

“In a sign of strength and fortitude, it was just announced that the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which violently ended rather abruptly on April 25th, will be rescheduled to July 24th,” the Republican president wrote on Truth Social on Tuesday.

“This announcement is a very good thing in that we cannot allow lunatics to change our way of life or even its scheduling.”

The dinner will be held at the Waldorf Astoria in the Old Post Office building on Pennsylvania Avenue, formerly a Trump-branded hotel—complete with what he described as a “ballroom that I built.”

Typically, it is held in or around the White House reporting cycle and serves both as a fundraising event and a celebration of press freedom, with speeches from journalists and sometimes the sitting U.S. president.