Even with short lived ex-White House press secretary Sean Spicer and CNN vet Frank Sesno holding down the fort on C-SPAN and MSNBC broadcasting the gathering entrée to dessert with commentary from Molly Jong-Fast and others, the vibe was very low-key. Low-key, but perhaps no less poignant compared to past years, with or without Trump in attendance

Kaitlan Collins joined bevy of journalists for the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night in Washington D.C. Andrea Mitchell, Abby Phillip and more political journalists attended the dinner and red carpet event, which began more than 100 years ago in 1921.