{"id":2413602,"date":"2025-03-17T23:04:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T03:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elite-gridiron-club-dinner-breaks-140-year-tradition-by-refusing-to-toast-to-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-03-17T23:04:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T03:04:02","slug":"elite-gridiron-club-dinner-breaks-140-year-tradition-by-refusing-to-toast-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elite-gridiron-club-dinner-breaks-140-year-tradition-by-refusing-to-toast-to-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Elite Gridiron Club Dinner breaks 140-year tradition by refusing to toast to Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a 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class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2042249\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The Gridiron Club Dinner in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/washington\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Washington, D.C.\">Washington, D.C.<\/a>, snubbed President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Washington, D.C.\">Donald Trump<\/a> by refusing to toast to the sitting president, breaking with 140 years of tradition.<\/p>\n<p>Gridiron President Judy Woodruff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/style\/2025\/03\/16\/gridiron-dinner-trump-washington\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"reportedly\">reportedly<\/a> raised her glass on Saturday night but deviated from the customary practice of offering a toast to the current president.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a 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target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Sean Spicer\">Sean Spicer<\/a> called this move an &ldquo;elitist&rdquo; gesture.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is how much the DC elitest media hates Trump<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in the 140-year history of the Gridiron Club Dinner, those gathered did not offer the traditional toast to the sitting U.S. president.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sean Spicer (@seanspicer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanspicer\/status\/1901326265757360134?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is how much the D.C. elitist media hates Trump,&rdquo; Spicer said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For the first time in the 140-year history of the Gridiron Club Dinner, those gathered did not offer the traditional toast to the sitting U.S. president,&rdquo; Spicer added.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and other Trump administration officials mutually snubbed the event by declining to attend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3350110\/chuck-schumer-the-view-book-tour-cancellation-democratic-party-unrest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>CHUCK SCHUMER TO APPEAR ON THE VIEW FOLLOWING BOOK TOUR CANCELLATION AND DEMOCRATIC PARTY UNREST<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joe diGenova, a former Gridiron Club Dinner member for over 20 years, encouraged Trump to withdraw the use of the U.S. Marine Corps band at the event.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Bottom line is that Gridiron disgraced itself, not President Trump, by their actions on Saturday night. 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