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TGIF: War Room Correspondent
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt takes questions during the daily briefing on January 28, 2025. (Roberto Schmidt via Getty Images)
Trump throws the doors to the press room wide open. His administration says ‘nuh-uh’ to MAHA. The Colombian president drops some slam poetry. Britain begs to be conquered. And much, much more.
By Nellie Bowles
01.31.25 — TGIF
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TGIF. You know what we do here.

→ The briefing room opens: The White House Correspondents’ Association is one of the last good clubs in journalism—elitist, secretive, full of arcane traditions, and for the last few years, determined to protect Joe Biden from questions. It’s a journalistic group that cares a lot about who gets to sit where, and for that r…

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Nellie Bowles
Nellie Bowles is a co-founder for The Free Press and its head of strategy. She was previously a reporter at The New York Times, where she won the Gerald Loeb Award for investigative journalism and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. She started her career at her hometown paper, the San Francisco Chronicle.
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