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The app Grindr, which allows gay men to find other gay men to have sex with, will host the White House Correspondents’ dinner weekend party on April 25, taking place before the main event.
According to The Hill, the pre-dinner event has previously been dubbed the “Nerd Prom.” The new host may succeed at adding a dash of homosexuality to an event which hopes to “bring together policymakers, journalists, and LGBTQ community leaders as we toast the First Amendment.”
A number of pro-homosexual individuals laid out their political agenda:
“Grindr represents a global community with real stakes in Washington. The issues being debated here — HIV funding, privacy and online safety, LGBTQ+ family rights — are daily life for our community,” Joe Hack, Grindr’s head of global government affairs, told ITK in a statement when asked about what inspired the company to join the lineup of events tied to the correspondents’ dinner.
“Nobody does connections like Grindr, and WHCD weekend is the most iconic place in the country to make them. We figured it was time to host,” Hack said.
In an interview last year, Grindr CEO George Arison said the dating app aimed to be a “place that is welcoming to everybody” regardless of political affiliation.
“No matter what their political views are, people who are gay should be welcome on Grindr and we want them to have a really good experience,” Arison said at the time, confirming reports that there was a “significant spike in usage” on the app in Milwaukee during the Republican National Convention in 2024.
While it is unlikely President Donald Trump will attend the earlier event hosted by the gay-sex-finder app, he did confirm that he will attend the main dinner this year, after foregoing it in pervious years. He said it would be the “hottest, and most spectacular dinner”:
The White House Correspondents Association has asked me, very nicely, to be the Honoree at this year’s Dinner, a long and storied tradition since it began in 1924, under then President Calvin Coolidge. In honor of our Nation’s 250th Birthday, and the fact that these “Correspondents” now admit that I am truly one of the Greatest Presidents in the History of our Country, the G.O.A.T., according to many, it will be my Honor to accept their invitation, and work to make it the GREATEST, HOTTEST, and MOST SPECTACULAR DINNER, OF ANY KIND, EVER! Because the Press was extraordinarily bad to me, FAKE NEWS ALL, right from the beginning of my First Term, I boycotted the event, and never went as Honoree. However, I look forward to being with everyone this year. Hopefully, it will be something very Special. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
President Trump will attend the main dinner with journalists, despite his threats to jail them:
On Monday, Trump threatened to imprison a journalist if they refused to reveal the source of information that a second US airman was still missing after being shot down by Iran last Friday, which he claimed put the service member at risk.
“The person who did the story will go to jail if he doesn’t say,” Trump told a packed room of White House reporters, without specifying which reporter and which outlet he was referring to. The comment shocked watchdogs even at a time when the White House has become increasingly hostile to the media.
Ironically, it was Trump that welcomed chants of “lock her up” during his 2016 campaign – referencing arresting his political opponent in the race, Hillary Clinton, once he took office. When Clinton told Trump during a 2016 debate that it’s good he is not in charge of the law in the country, Trump replied “because you’d be in jail.”
While Trump never made good on that promise, once he was out of office, Joe Biden’s Democrat government had Trump arrested numerous times. Now back in office, Trump has went over a year with no high-level arrests of his political opponents. Democrats may seek to rearrest Trump once he’s out of office in 2029, although that remains to be seen.
The founder and former CEO of Grindr, Joel Simkhai, is from Israel. In 2016 60% of Grindr was sold to Chinese company Kunlun.
