{"id":43362,"date":"2026-04-25T17:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T17:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/43362\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T17:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T17:41:09","slug":"gavin-newsom-bari-weiss-and-the-washington-power-class-gather-for-the-vanity-fair-and-caa-party-to-celebrate-whcd-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/43362\/","title":{"rendered":"Gavin Newsom, Bari Weiss, and the Washington Power Class Gather for the\u00a0Vanity Fair\u00a0and CAA Party to Celebrate WHCD Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bari Weiss<\/a>\u2014who will have fifteen (!) tables for CBS at Saturday\u2019s White House Correspondents’ Dinner<\/a>, her first ever WCHD as well as her first as editor-in-chief of the network\u2014chats with the New York Times\u2019 Maureen Dowd and Michael Grynbaum<\/a> (who wrote the recent history of Cond\u00e9 Nast, Vanity Fair\u2019s parent company). Vermont Congresswoman Becca Balint, who recently roasted Pam Bondi during her congressional hearing , dishes that she enlarged Christopher Anderson\u2019s photos<\/a> for Vanity Fair\u2014the ones of Susie Wiles, Karoline Leavitt, Marco Rubio, et al\u2014and put them on her office wall. Meanwhile, former CBS producer Shawna Thomas, who left the network just months after Weiss’s contested arrival, introduces herself to California Governor Gavin Newsom<\/a>, who simply cannot make it past the grand foyer and into the bustling party on account of the crowd that descends on him. “I’m the political director of MS Now,” Thomas says\u2014or she will be. She starts in June.<\/p>\n

Newsom poses for a photo with Oz Pearlman, the mentalist<\/a> booked to perform at tomorrow’s dinner. “Will you be going?” I ask the governor. He flashes a pained smile. “I don’t think so.” Nearby, someone asks Pearlman whether Trump even has the stamina to speak for a full hour. \u201cUnfortunately,\u201d he says, the answer is very much yes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bari Weiss\u2014who will have fifteen (!) tables for CBS at Saturday\u2019s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, her first ever…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[147],"tags":[6182,542,50,27727,27726,51,27728,11308,11313],"class_list":["post-43362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gavin-newsom","tag-celebrity","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-news","tag-onecolumn","tag-paywall-exclude","tag-politics","tag-splitscreenimagerightinset","tag-style","tag-web"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116466580379542626","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}