Keenan Thompson and Hasan Minhaj will serve as host and featured entertainer, respectively, at the 2020 White House Correspondents' Dinner
about former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Instead of a comedian last year, the WHCA invited historian Ron Chernow to deliver a lecture on the history of journalism and the First Amendment.
Along with the return to comedy, the 2020 White House Correspondents’ Dinner will notably mark the first time since the Seventies that the event will include both a host and a featured entertainer . For Thompson, this will be his first Correspondents’ Dinner; Minhaj“Kenan and Hasan are two of the most engaged and engaging entertainers in America,” said WHCA president and ABC White House correspondent Jonathan Karl.
While sitting presidents have typically attended and done some sort of bit at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Trump has yet to embrace the tradition. Last year, he even issued an order to his entire administration that they
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