Trump tries humor, gets silence, at black-tie dinner with ‘people I hate’
- Posted on February 1, 2026
- By Washington Post
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Trump tries humor, gets silence, at black-tie dinner with ‘people I hate’

In a frenetic presidency marked by jarring contrasts, he added another Saturday night: suiting up in black-tie regalia amid mass immigration protests and telling jokes about invading Greenland.