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Donald Trump Delivers Rally-Like Hour Of Rehash In White House Correspondents’ Dinner Speech

At the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on Friday, Donald Trump delivered an hour-long speech blending shopworn rally material with a string of leaden one-liners.

He was making his first appearance as president at the dinner, which had to be rescheduled last April after a shooter attempted to rush the ballroom and was subdued by the Secret Service. While presidents for decades have long used the event’s keynote slot to zing reporters to varying degrees, Trump lapsed into rally mode, only deviating for some personal broadsides at members of the press, marbled with references to their appearance.

After one clanger about an elderly U.S. senator’s sex life drew crickets, Trump asked, “Does anybody get that? I thought that was actually great. That was actually the only thing I thought was good in this whole frickin’ stupid speech. It was the only good one, and that went down with not exactly great laughter.”

Over the rest of the meandering speech (watch the whole thing below), Trump seemed to recognize that many of his would-be jokes were not landing. There were few laughs or reactions at all beyond squirming or fidgeting as he veered in stream-of-consciousness fashion from topic to topic.

“Tonight’s event is even crazier than the last time,” Trump said. “It’s so successful that I’ve been informed by CBS News’ David Ellison” (Ellison is CEO of CBS parent Paramount) that “next year, they’re going to call it the Trump White House Correspondents’ Dinner.” Changing the name, he added, “is the only way you’re going to get me back here.”

The hour-long speech tested the patience of all but the fiercest Trump loyalists in attendance. The audience only sporadically reacted, with long periods of near-silence prevailing in the ballroom. Once Trump’s remarks concluded and mentalist Oz Pearlman took the stage, a number of guests streamed toward the exits.

Compared with April’s event at the Hilton, the ballroom at the Waldorf-Astoria is much smaller. Trump cabinet members mingled with reporters in an aisle near one of Paramount’s tables. Chief Legal Officer Makan Delrahim was at the dinner just a couple of hours after the decision to push back the company’s planned merger with Warner Bros. Discovery amid an antitrust challenge. At a Paramount table with Delrahim were Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, presidential advisor Stephen Miller and his wife Katie Miller. Also at the event: Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy Jr. and his wife Cheryl Himes, as well as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who was at the center of one of Pearlman’s mental feats.

Prior to Trump’s remarks, there were some awkward moments onstage as annual awards were given out, including to some journalists who investigated the president. As Wall Street Journal reporters accepted an honor for their Jeffrey Epstein story, Trump shook their hands and then threw his hands up in the air and smiled a bit. Wolf Blitzer, who was presenting the award, noted that he sued the WSJ over the story for $20 billion.

Once at the lectern, Trump went after Josh Dawsey, one of the WSJ winners, and CNN host Kaitlan Collins with highly personal digs, but the room fell nearly silent as the would-be laugh lines were delivered. Weijia Jiang, outgoing president of the WHCA, largely stayed serious, not giving up a reaction, as Trump went into the would-be-roast-like digressions.

CNN even released a statement during the speech, defending its journalists.

The president appeared to have a set of prepared jokes, but he frequently veered off script, or their subjects seemed to remind him of an aside. The result was a speech that weaved through familiar political attacks, like on Adam Schiff’s appearance, to an extended riff on his plans for a White House ballroom. At one point, he pointed to details on the chandeliers at the Waldorf Astoria venue, which he built and previously operated as a Trump hotel. Some of his biting insults at the press were perhaps more muted than they otherwise would have been, given the sheer length of the speech and the topics covered.

When Pearlman took the stage, he noted that Trump had made “an announcement that he will attending next year’s event. I thought he was going to be speaking until next year, actually.”

Trump had been scheduled to speak at the April dinner, but it was interrupted and then ended after a gunman breached a security barricade. The incident took place just outside the Washington Hilton ballroom, but shots could be heard among dinner guests. That sent the Secret Service scrambling to remove Trump and Vice President JD Vance from the dais, as well as other guests seated in the ballroom.

RELATED: Behind The Scenes As C-SPAN’s Team Captured The Chaotic, Harrowing Night Of The White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Trump urged the White House Correspondents’ Association to reschedule, but the new arrangements were for a new venue at the Waldorf, formerly a Trump hotel, and with a new set of security measures in place.

But just as in April, there has been attention on the WHCA and what would be said during the evening, not just by Trump but by other journalists. In addition to a flurry of lawsuits against media outlets and routine rants about the news media, Trump has threatened to pull network broadcast licenses and his Justice Department has subpoenaed reporters to try to obtain their sources. In the latter case, the DOJ this week withdrew subpoenas issued to New York Times reporters who wrote pieces on the lack of security features on the new Air Force One. That followed a court hearing in which a federal judge criticized government attorneys for the way that the subpoenas were issued.

The president skipped the WHCA dinners last year and during his first term, at times holding counter events. But he agreed to attend this year, putting him front and center at an event celebrating some of the journalists he has attacked. Among those receiving awards were reporters for The Wall Street Journal who reported on a bawdy letter with Trump’s signature sent to Jeffrey Epstein. Trump denied he sent the letter, and sued the publication, along with its publisher and Rupert Murdoch.

July 26, 2026
Inside The Room At The Rescheduled WHCA Dinner As Donald Trump Tried Rickles-Like Rally Schtick, But Was Met With The Sounds Of Silence

Inside the Waldorf Astoria on Friday evening, President Donald Trump took to the stage at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and tried out some Don Rickles-like shtick, interspersed it with some of his greatest rally hits and fixated on some of his obsessions, including his plans for a White House ballroom.

What stood out during his one-hour-and-two minute remarks, though, was the silence in the crowd: many jokes didn’t land, he meandered into asides and veered into insider-ish attacks that likely went well over the heads of the TV audience. Much of what he said wasn’t humor, in contrast to the tightly scripted routines of his predecessors, but akin to a fever dream from someone who has spent a bit too much time watching right-wing TV.

At about 45 minutes in, guests were looking at their phones and fidgeting in their seats. I looked around and locked eyes with a man who gave a brief yawn. It was Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary.

The length of Trump’s remarks were a reminder of one of Johnny Carson’s quips from the Oscars decades ago: “Welcome to two hours of sparkling entertainment spread over a four-hour show.” It should be noted that Trump’s weaving from topic to topic included a riff on the Academy Awards and how they have gotten too anti-Trump, but even that didn’t get much of a response.

The president did deliver some funny lines, including quips about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “I hope that everyone finally got to enjoy their entire, very delicious beef tenderloin, very special beef. And I want you all to know that Bobby Kennedy, who’s right here, personally ran over the cow in his car.”

Trump also revealed that he still counts how many front-page stories he gets in the New York Times, and gave some practical guidance for reporters who have his phone number and want to call him directly, and why he answers some of them. “I always find that when you don’t speak to the press, you always get a bad story. When you do speak to the press, you have a shot at a good story.”

Yet in a room full of journalists, Trump’s attacks on figures like CNN’s Kaitlan Collins were met with stone-faces from those who were well aware their reactions could be caught on C-SPAN cameras. His personal insults, ranging from Adam Schiff having a pencil neck to Chris Christie’s weight to Bruce Springsteen’s aged face, also were repeats of various Truth Social posts.

The event, in the Waldorf Astoria ballroom, was in a much smaller venue than the Washington Hilton, making it more intimate and putting many attendees face-to-face with Trump’s top advisers and members of his cabinet including Stephen Miller, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. With a much smaller crowd, and no pre-event receptions, the enhanced security generally moved briskly.

There were standout moments during other parts of the evening. This was the rescheduled dinner after April’s event was stopped by an apparent assassination attempt on the president, as a gunman breached security and the sounds of gunfire sent the thousands of attendees at the Washington Hilton to the floor. The WHCA paid tribute to the Secret Service officer, Victor Gonzales, who helped stop the gunman, as well as the Washington Hilton staff.

WHCA president Weijia Jiang, White House correspondent for CBS News, gave a very personal and heartfelt speech about her journey, having been born in China, raised in Appalachian coal country and, inspired by Connie Chung, landing in the “Oval Office to ask questions of the president of the United States.”

L-R: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, President Donald Trump and Weijia Jiang

Eric Lee/Getty Images

There was pressure on the WHCA to directly confront Trump for his attacks on the press. Jiang talked about the purpose of the First Amendment and the intent of the founders, while commenting more generally on the state of the situation rather than call out specific episodes. She said, “Criticism of the media can be unfair. It can also be legitimate. We get a lot right, but sometimes we get things wrong. We mistake proximity to power for understanding it, and at times we get trapped in our own bubbles. There is a difference, though, an existential difference, between criticizing the press and trying to undermine it.”

When it came to the defense of the press at a difficult moment, the approach of the WHCA appeared to be that of what is taught in J-school: Show, don’t tell. A video segment featured an AI-generated James Madison explaining the importance of the First Amendment, with clips of Trump’s predecessors, including Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama, acknowledging the essential role of the press corps. Comments from Dan Rather and Sam Donaldson reinforced how the adversarial nature of the relationship is nothing new.

The most direct face-to-face with Trump’s press attacks came when Wolf Blitzer presented an award to Wall Street Journal for its reporting on an alleged bawdy letter that Trump wrote to Jeffrey Epstein. As Blitzer noted that Trump sued the Journal for $20 billion, the president gave a smirk, to some laughter, then he shook hands with the reporters who received the prize. After it was over, he threw his hands up in the air, as if to say, whatever.

Toward the end of his winding remarks, Trump did say that he respected those in the room, but also that he planned to be back at the event next year.

Pres. Trump reacts to award to Wall Street Journal receiving @whca Katharine Graham Award for Courage and Accountability for investigative reporting detailing a birthday card and drawing sent to Jeffrey Epstein pic.twitter.com/AyFZjjx1Vj

— CSPAN (@cspan) July 25, 2026

What seemed to really wow the room came at the end, when mentalist Oz Pearlman performed a series of feats, made all the more notable when they involved UN Ambassador Mike Waltz and Blanche. The latter figure, awaiting Senate confirmation to take the DOJ post permanently, gamely played along as Pearlman asked him to lie about how much money he had in his wallet. Blanche said $130; Pearlman wrote down the correct figure, $85.

Later, Pearlman had Blanche sign one of his $20 bills.

“Hold it up and let everyone see the federal offense you have just committed,” Pearlman quipped. “He just clearly lost the Senate confirmation hearings on camera.” The interplay made sense a little later when Pearlman performed another feat, writing a figure on a whiteboard that matched the serial number to Blanche’s bill.

The moment was a bit incongruous to what is going on in D.C. and with Blanche himself, what with the DOJ recently issuing subpoenas to reporters from The New York Times, and then withdrawing them in the face of a judge’s criticisms. But for the WHCA dinner, a tradition that has traditionally mixed the serious with showbiz, Pearlman’s routine at least proved to be a bit of sparkling entertainment.

July 26, 2026
Morgan Stewart on Wave of Home Burglaries in L.A.: “Everyone I Know Has Gotten Robbed”

Morgan Stewart has revealed more about the harsh reality of being burglarized twice at her Beverly Hills home.

The reality TV veteran, fashion influencer and podcast host joined Jake Shane on the newest episode of his show, Therapuss, and opened up about experiencing firsthand a crime wave that has impacted such celebrities as Brad Pitt, Lionel Richie, Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban, Tracee Ellis Ross, Rachel Zoe, Kathy Hilton, Sutton Stracke and more.

“Bought it in France, brought it home, stolen out of my house two days later,” Stewart told Shane of a rare Hermes Birkin purse that was taken. “I was camping with my kids for their school camping trip, and we got a call from security. We had security [and he had fallen asleep] in front of the house. I’ve just now gotten past [him falling asleep], and they smashed through my office door and they went into our bedroom and ransacked my husband’s watches.”

Stewart then commented on the rash of burglaries and said “this is happening a lot in the area, unfortunately, it’s happening all the time,” so much so she claimed that “everyone I know has gotten robbed.” The robbers took armfuls of her rare purses but left a glass case full of bags untouched. “They didn’t touch because I think they probably would have thought there was an alarm or something attached to it.”

“I was just furious. I was angry. I’m pissed. It’s a violation,” she said of the emotions she experienced after the fact. “I saw the video of them climbing over my gate in the middle of the day. And they had six bags on each arm, and they tossed them over the gate onto the driveway. I’m like, ‘You are so disrespectful. Hop politely because you’ve just scratched the Box Kelly I just got.’ It was literally just like trash on the floor.”

Stewart also revealed that she experienced a second burglary at her home. “My security caught them on the hillside,” she said. “That was when they took all my jewelry. But we got it back, thank God.”

She now says her home is guarded like “Fort Knox.” The Therapuss episode is available on Netflix and Spotify, and finds Stewart also dishing about style trends for summer, what life was like on Rich Kids of Beverly Hills and more.

July 25, 2026
President Trump Roasts Media at Rescheduled, Paired-Down White House Correspondents’ Dinner

President Trump appeared at the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, which took place in Washington, D.C. on Friday with a new location and a drastically reduced list of attendees, following the cancellation of the event in April after a gunman fired shots as the event was underway.

Moved to the Waldorf, Astoria, in the nation’s capital instead of the Washington Hilton and reduced from 2,600 guests down to around 680, it was less a star-studded event that each year sees celebrity guests brush elbows with reporters and editors as they sit with the politicians they cover — the optics of which are criticized each year by journalists and critics alike.

For the make-up dinner, the WHCA is also bringing back the Secret Service member who survived the April shooting, when 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen, who allegedly intended to target multiple Trump administration officials, was arrested near the screening area outside the banquet hall after running past the security checkpoint. Plus honoring the Washington Hilton staff who stayed on the scene and continued tending to rattled guests.

Elements of the first dinner remained. The awards were handed out; mentalist Oz Pearlman, who got just one private trick for the White House press secretary at the first dinner before gunshots caused chaos, returned to deliver some levity; and ahead of the event, a group of hundreds of former journalists and press freedom groups sent a letter to the WHCA. Now, they were urging the association to capitalize on Trump’s attendance by calling him out for his administration’s attacks on First Amendment rights, which include recently subpoenaing New York Times reporters over their coverage and threatening to revoke licenses of broadcasters.

The president took to the stage around 9:30 p.m. ET and brought up the attempted attack early in his much-anticipated speech, which has been speculated upon heavily in April and again ahead of the July event. Traditionally, the dinner’s speeches are a roast of the attendees and the president himself.

“The attempted mass murder at the Washington Hilton — that’s what it could have been — was an assault on our democracy itself,” Trump said. “A very serious situation. Many of you were there with me, and some showed extreme bravery, like Pete Hegseth, Steve Miller, Tom Holman. Really, they were standing on tables. And most of you were under the table,” he said to Friday night’s attendees, which got some laughs.

Trump’s first joke to fall completely flat came soon and involved a rapper and MAGA convert who he recently had at a White House event.

“After hearing the gunshots, many people yelled, ‘Get down! Get down!’ which caused Nicki Minaj to start twerking,” he said, referring to the dance. “Do you believe it? Get down. She’s the only one that really understood what that meant.”

Trump’s speech began to meander as he at first reminisced about the Waldorf Astoria in the 1980s and moved to several topics and name-dropped celebrities not in the room and with whom he has personal gripes, some going back for decades. Rosie O’Donnell, Bette Midler and Bruce Springsteen all got a mention, with the latter’s looks as he ages compared to the president’s own. Trump joked that his live show, where he was railing about the administration’s policies, was now called “Bored in the U.S.A.”

More to come…

July 25, 2026
Nick Hakim’s ‘I Can See’ Is a Hazy Alt-R&B Masterpiece: Album Review

“Stoner R&B” is not an insult: It’s the opposite, a loose term to describe a sprawling genre of music that includes everything from Dijon and Frank Ocean to Brent Faiyaz and Jhene Aiko. It’s R&B that has smoked a strong blunt, with languid grooves, heavy bass, psychedelicized production and an unhurried vocal approach. Unlike the tight rhythms, choppy guitars and urgency of traditional R&B, it’s not in a hurry to get anywhere.

When Nick Hakim first emerged in 2014 with his “Where Will We Go” EPs and subsequent albums, he was a bright new voice in the genre, but as the years went by, his music sailed further and further out until, by 2022’s “Cometa,” conventional song structures had pretty much drifted off.

But his fourth and latest album, “I Can See,” is his most focused work to date — and despite the unhurried tempos and smoky vibes, it’s a very seriously structured set of songs, with multiple layers of his soft, soulful vocals and shimmering keyboards. “Real Here Now” is one of the most gorgeous R&B songs you’ll hear all year and is almost like an Usher song from a parallel universe, but as always his music has a crossover appeal that defies pigeonholing: The following song, “U Can Make It,” is a densely layered track built around a thudding electronic bass drum, echo-drenched piano and layers and layers of vocals.

The unusually hazy sound of this album is as vital as the songs — the vocals and instruments waft in and out of the mix like music from a passing car or sounds from the apartment next door; you’re not always sure exactly what you’re hearing, not that it matters. Equal parts electronic and organic, it pairs conventional snare and rimshot sounds with heavy digital bass, piano so heavily treated that it sounds like a warped calliope, and backing vocals that float in and out like a chorus of ghosts.

After the more-conventionally structured songs of the album’s first half, the last few continue “Cometa”’s journey toward the cosmos, growing murkier and piling on effects reminiscent of dub reggae. Indeed, “I Can See” is a realm beyond alternative R&B — it’s more like R&B from a different planet.

July 25, 2026
Sui traders eye range lows at $0.70 as oversold RSI signals potential buying zone
Sui [$SUI] faced a 5% price drawdown in the past 24 hours, with a 9.6% uptick in daily trading volume. This was worrisome as it suggested a short-term increase in selling pressure.

The rest of the crypto market has faced losses over the past day, too. Bitcoin [BTC] and Ethereum [ETH] were down 1.05% and 1.14%, respectively. Compared to these market leaders, Sui was underperforming in the short-term.

Why the Sui downturn is surprising

Coinbase announced that $SUI can be staked directly on the exchange. Staking rewards would directly accumulate to the user’s account. It offered an easy, effortless way of earning rewards.

Source: Ted on X

Trader Ted noted that the bullish catalyst could help the altcoin break past the descending trendline resistance in place since early June. The token has defended the $0.66 support zone well so far.

Some more consolidation followed by a bullish breakout was a viable scenario, the trader wrote.

Source: $SUI/$USDT on TradingView

The swing low at $0.65, made in June, marked the swing structure’s low. The RSI on the 1-day timeframe recently climbed above neutral 50, but the losses of the past three days sent the momentum indicator tumbling once more.

The OBV was in a downtrend, although the selling pressure has eased in July.

A pullback, in the form of a rally toward $1.12-$1.25, the Fibonacci golden pocket, was technically possible. However, it was far from playing out in reality.

Traders’ call to action- Wait

Source: $SUI/$USDT on TradingView

In July, $SUI has been trading within the $0.70-$0.77 range. Traders can look to trade the token within this range. The RSI on the 4-hour chart was in oversold territory as the token approached the range lows.

While this can be a buying opportunity, a breakout past the $0.82 local resistance zone would be a stronger buy signal for swing traders. Similarly, a breakdown below $0.65 would signal that the next impulse bearish price move was imminent.

Final Summary
- The Coinbase staking news has served as a sell-the-news type event.
- The short-term range between $0.70-$0.77 might provide trading opportunities, but the $0.82 supply zone is also one to keep an eye on.
July 25, 2026
‘Widow’s Bay’ Creator on Writing Season 2 After Buzzy Launch: “I Learned a Lot About What You Don’t Need”

The writing process has just begun for the second season of Apple TV‘s latest hit series Widow’s Bay.

Show creator Katie Dippold participated in Collider’s Showrunners on Showrunning panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday, where she opened up about the project’s startling success. Starring Matthew Rhys as the mayor of a New England island that the residents are convinced is haunted, Widow’s Bay quickly became one of television’s buzziest shows after its April launch and went on to land a whopping 19 Emmy Award nominations, including best comedy series.

“It took a long time,” Dippold said about how soon she got a sense that the show had picked up as many fans as it did. She joked that she remains “terrified” of Reddit but eventually took enough of a look on the social media platform to see that the amount of discussion about Widow’s Bay was increasing wildly. “Seeing that was really shocking.”

The writer, also known for her work on such features as The Heat and Snatched, explained that she did not know that the series had been renewed for a second season until just before the news went public. “But I was still always hoping and thinking about it,” she continued, pointing out that the writers room for season two started earlier this week. “It’s a great room, and then we’re going to be writing for the next 20 weeks.” Dippold noted that her goal is to begin filming next year for the show that also stars Kate O’Flynn, Kevin Carroll, Dale Dickey, Kingston Rumi Southwick and Stephen Root.

As for lessons from the initial season that the first-time showrunner plans to incorporate for the second one, Dippold said, “I learned pretty quickly in making it.” Dippold pointed out that she felt that the comedy worked because the actors played things straight and dramatic: “Throughout the process, it was making sure everything served that, and so that’s top of mind going into season two. Also, the scripts were longer and pretty dense. I had to make last-minute cuts for time, so I’ll just be more mindful of that because we didn’t need that much.”

She added, “In the edit, I just could see, ‘Oh, you actually didn’t need any of this stuff anyway.’ I learned a lot about what you don’t need and getting to things quicker.”

In her review of Widow’s Bay for The Hollywood Reporter, critic Angie Han wrote, “At its best, Widow’s Bay highlights the blurry line between comedy and horror.”

July 25, 2026
Guillermo del Toro said ‘Absolutely No Goddamn AI’ in ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ 3D Re-Release: ‘We’re Protecting a Lineage of Art’

Guillermo del Toro had one rule when bringing “Pan’s Labyrinth” back to theaters for its 20th anniversary: “No goddamn AI.”

The filmmaker returned to San Diego Comic-Con to discuss the film’s 20th anniversary, which returns to theaters Oct. 9 in 3D and HDR for the first time.

The filmmaker said he converted “Pan’s Labyrinth” into 3D by hand and opted not to use AI.

“Obviously I said, ‘Absolutely no goddamn AI,’” he said, which was met with the audience’s applause. “What we’re protecting is the beauty and the redeeming power of art. It’s not about who gets the job. We are protecting a lineage of art. If we cut a generation of people from learning their craft, you’re cutting the rest of the history of that medium away from them for what?”

When doing the conversion, del Toro said he had two options: to do it quick, or to do it good.

“I chose good. You have to put in time. You have to do every element by hand. A human made a decision of depth,” he said.

During the panel, del Toro teased a documentary that explores the process of creating the original film, which features appearances and commentary from Jacob Elordi, Cate Blanchett and Charlie Day.

Also offered in 2D HDR, Cineverse and Fathom 4K will bring the re-release to the big screen, with each version being overseen by del Toro himself. Tickets will be available to purchase on Sept. 9.

“Pan’s Labyrinth” follows a young girl named Ofelia (Ivana Baquero), who travels into a fantasy world after fleeing the danger of 1944 Francoist Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. While there, she befriends a mysterious faun and navigates the realm of deadly beasts. Starring alongside Baquero are Doug Jones, Maribel Verdú and Sergi López.

“Pan’s Labyrinth” earned $83 million worldwide at the box office in 2006 and received six Oscar nominations and three wins for best makeup, cinematography and art direction.

Del Toro returned to Cannes Film Festival earlier this year to debut a 4K restoration of the film, which was met with several minutes of applause. Two decades ago, the film made Cannes history of the longest standing ovation, totaling 22 minutes.

July 25, 2026
KULRTech moves $9.45mln in Bitcoin – Is a complete exit next?
Since the October 2025 peak, Bitcoin has failed to sustain an uptrend, falling 48% from its $ATH. Amid this extended market weakness, long-term holders, especially institutions, have seen their losses skyrocket.

The rising losses have pushed many of these firms to a breaking point, and they are not only capitulating but also walking away.

KULRTech dumps $9 million in Bitcoin

Treasuries that rushed to accumulate Bitcoin [$BTC] from late 2024 and 2025, fearing they would miss out, have found themselves operating at a loss.

Others were pushed to capitulate to avoid more losses, and one such Bitcoin treasury company is KULRTech.

KULRTech has been aggressively dumping its $BTC over the past months. According to Arkham data, KULRTech transferred 145.8 $BTC worth $9.45 million to Coinbase Prime.

Source: Arkham

After multiple transfers, its holdings of 1,021 $BTC worth $101 million now have only 100 $BTC worth $6.47 million left.

In its selling spree, the company has mostly exited at a loss. AMBCrypto earlier reported that KULR Bitcoin holdings saw over $18 million in losses.

Now with only 100 $BTC left, it seems the company is on the verge of completely exiting its position. Thus, if weakness continues, the company is likely to sell and exit the market entirely.

Source: Yahoo Finance

Even more impactful for KULRTech, the company’s stock value was hit the hardest by extended Bitcoin poor performance.

Yahoo Finance data showed that the company’s stock declined 78% from its $ATH of $43 recorded after it announced its $BTC investment. As of this writing, the firm’s stock value was around $2.7.

Treasuries holdings value plunges $47 billion from 2025 peak

KULR Technology Group, Inc is one of the many Bitcoin treasury companies operating at a loss. Also, it joins a long list of these firms aggressively selling.

Interestingly, while Treasury companies have increased their holdings in 2026, they have yet to reclaim peak value.

Source: CoinGlass

In 2025, Bitcoin treasury companies held 1.02 million $BTC worth approximately $128.5 billion at the peak. Now, these firms hold 1.25 million $BTC worth $81.5 billion, marking a $47 billion drop from the 2025 peak.

Thus, although holdings have increased by 230k $BTC, the value remains extremely low, signaling rising losses. For example, Strategy is currently operating on $9 billion in losses.

With these major investors holding at a loss and continually selling, the Bitcoin market still remains at extreme risk. Thus, fear from treasuries could drive continued market weakness, further reducing the capital that $BTC relied on significantly for the 2024-2025 rally.

Final Summary
- KULR Technology Group transferred 145.8 $BTC worth $9.45 million to Coinbase Prime, reducing total holdings to 100 Bitcoin.
- Bitcoin treasuries have increased holdings by 230k $BTC since October 2025, but value dropped from $128 billion to $81 billion.
July 25, 2026
Trump Says White House Correspondents Dinner Is ‘Largest Group of Trump Derangement Syndrome People Ever Put Together at One Time’

President Donald Trump attended his first-ever White House Correspondents Association Dinner, with this year’s rescheduled gala held Friday evening in Washington, D.C., and delivered some pointed remarks to the assembled journalists in a rambling speech that stretched on for just over an hour — and personally insulted several journalists, politicians and celebs that he’s sparred with.

“I am delighted to be here at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Amazing people, a lot of people that I like,” Trump said. “Some I don’t like at all, but I respect most of them.”

At first Trump seemed unsure of the tone he wanted to impart, and suggested that — compared with barbs he was planning to deliver at the original WHCA dinner, which was disrupted by a gun-wielding attacker — he was pulling his punches. “I said, ‘What do we do here? Is this supposed to be fun? Am I supposed to be serious? Am I supposed to be a comedian?’ So I guess you said, maybe a little bit of everything.”

But Trump quickly started bashing the press. “This evening it’s really all about the fake news media and your handling of prizes — writing and producing and performing made-up stories like the Academy Awards,” Trump said. The Academy Awards “used to be the the epitome of ratings outside of the Super Bowl… Now it’s down in the dumps. Nobody wants to watch it anymore because they took on Trump. They hit me all night long.”

He told the journalists, “when I’m gone. You’re all going to be broke. Your business model is going to be finished. No, it’s true. When I’m not around, you’re going to be broke. There’s not going to be anybody to report on. Nobody gives a damn about anybody else.”

Trump said “mostly, I’ve given up on you and the media, so that now I just gave up on you, and I’m number one on TikTok. Did you see that?… I gave up on you, people. I gave up on traditional press, and it obviously worked because we did win in a landline” (by which he meant “landslide,” which is not true). Trump boasted that “I was able to get [TikTok] sold to a group of very wealthy people, mostly Americans.”

Trump said he did not attend past WHCA dinners because “I thought the press treated me very, very unfairly, and I don’t know. I think I made the right decision because they need to go where maybe you’re not wanted, but they did want me. They wanted me for ratings, and they wanted me for other reasons, but not for love. And I said, ‘You know, I’m not going to go.’ First time that ever happened… And I didn’t go for four years because I got treated terribly by the press.”

This year, Trump noted, the WHCA decided not to have a comedian. “They considered using Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon,” Trump said. “These guys — they’re terrible. They’re terrible. Stephen Colbert. These are people without talent… They have no talent, but they are not comedians. They’re not funny people. They’re angry people. They’re sick people.”

Trump held forth for about 64 minutes after he took the podium at 9:33 p.m.

Trump joked that Paramount CEO David Ellison, who is the owner of CBS News (“He bought it, spent a lot of money, and he’s going to make, I think, fantastic changes and keep some of the great stuff going”) next year will rename the WHCA dinner “the Trump White House Correspondents’ Dinner.” “He told me that, and I like that very much. We’re going to change the name of it, OK?” Trump said, alluding to his unsuccessful effort to add his name to the Kennedy Center.

He also said at another point in his talk, “I, for one, wish Bari Weiss all the best at CBS News. She’s a wonderful woman,” which drew an audible murmur from the audience.

He said White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt “may have one of the hardest jobs in the White House” because she has to “deal with all of you all the time, and you can be very difficult. You can be very, very difficult people. But I’m probably being a little bit oversensitive. Sometimes I really do think that some of you don’t like me.”

He quipped, “This place is the really the largest group of Trump derangement syndrome people ever put together at one time, I suspect,” eliciting a smattering of laughter.

Trump slammed some of his favorite perceived enemies. He said the winner of the lowest ratings and the “lowest IQ on television” was “actually Don Lemon,” who Trump called “the dumbest man on television. I said, you know, when you say some things, you never make a comeback. It’s not like, ‘Oh gee, hey Don, let’s have dinner some night.’”

Trump also took aim at CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins. He said, “I want to personally congratulate CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on receiving her award” but said it “was all about me. It’s a fake. She shouldn’t get the award. It was a fake, but I didn’t mind.” (In a statement issued as Trump was still speaking, Mark Thompson, chairman and CEO of CNN Worldwide, said: “We stand by our journalists and the integrity and fair mindedness with which the CNN team reports the news. Honest, accurate journalism may sometimes irritate politicians, but our right to report and present that reporting to the public without government interference is fully protected by the U.S. Constitution. CNN will continue to exercise this right.”)

Trump then went on a weird tangent about Collins, calling her “a young, active woman” but that “she never smiles. I said, ‘Kaitlan, do you ever smile? Smile. You have a nice position. You’re at CNN fake news. You should be a happy person. Just smile, Kaitlan. Just smile.’” Then Trump tried to joke that Collins had signed “a major new sponsorship. But then I informed her that it wasn’t her on the Bud Light can. It was Dylan Mulvaney,” Trump said, referring to transgender influencer who was enlisted by the beer company in 2023, a campaign that suffered a huge backlash. “Dylan Mulvaney cost Bud like $35 million in market cap. It was the worst commercial ever made, by the way. For those few people that want to hear that, most people don’t care, but I would. I wouldn’t want to hire Dylan anytime soon,” said Trump.

About another CNN anchor, Anderson Cooper, Trump said: “I like Anderson actually because he’s covered me well for many years, and he went bad as soon as I went for politics. But for years, he loved interviews. I did so many interviews with him, and he was great. But you know, he’s got a little different persuasion than me, in many ways actually.”

Trump also lashed out at California Gov. Gavin Newsom, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Chuck Schumer, Rosie O’Donnell (a “sick older woman”), CNN’s Jake Tapper and Bruce Springsteen. About Springsteen, Trump said: “What the hell happened to that guy? He looks like hell… I’m sure he doesn’t like the way I look, but I don’t look so bad.” He complained that Springsteen made “four political speeches in his three-hour show,” leading Trump to joke, “The tour has been renamed ‘Bored in the USA,’ and his new song was so bad.”

Trump, of course, has had a hostile relationship with the press. He not only routinely complains that news outlets are “fake news” and insults individual journalists but he has also sued multiple news outlets over coverage he dislikes, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC News and CBS News’ “60 Minutes.”

At the WHCA dinner, the Wall Street Journal reporters behind the paper’s story about a birthday letter purportedly written by Trump to Jeffrey Epstein won the $10,000 Katharine Graham Award for Courage and Accountability award. Trump, who has denied he penned the Epstein letter, filed a lawsuit over the story, demanding $20 billion in damages. A judge dismissed his original suit but Trump refiled the complaint in May 2026 and the matter is pending. The Journal’s lawyers called Trump’s lawsuit “an affront to the First Amendment.” At the dinner, Trump awkwardly shook the hands of the Journal reporters who were there to receive the prize, then threw up his hands in mock resignation and returned to his seat.

“This has not been an easy evening. All these awards… Do I get a say in those awards?” Trump joked during his remarks.

Near the end of his remarks, Trump joked that he would run for a fourth term — and he donned a “Trump 2028” hat — repeating his baseless claim that he actually won the 2020 U.S. presidential election. (He did not.) Trump said he plans to return to the correspondents’ dinner in 2027.

Meanwhile, Trump also made a joke at the expense of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his secretary of Health and Human Services. “Bobby Kennedy’s right here. He personally ran over the cow in his car… he brought it here for you to eat tonight,” Trump said. “So it’s very fresh. And Bobby also suggested an appetizer featuring his favorite cut of male raccoon roadkill. But we drew the line at that, Cheryl. We said, no, we’re not going to do that. We’re not doing that. We love Bobby.”

Friday’s WHCA dinner took place at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in D.C. It featured a performance by mentalist Oz Pearlman, whereas the association has traditionally invited a comedian to roast the sitting president.

The WHCA dinner was rescheduled after the first gathering, on April 25, was interrupted by an evident assassination attempt on Trump. The gunman who crashed through security at the Washington Hilton was apprehended and charged. Trump spent time discussing the April attack in his remarks, thanking the law enforcement personnel who subdued the suspect.

Outgoing WHCA president Weijia Jiang, senior White House correspondent for CBS News, delivered opening remarks at the start of the event. She then shared hosting duties with Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich, who will serve as the organization’s president for the 2026-27 term.

July 25, 2026