In the White House Correspondents’ Association’s 111-year history, there’s probably never been a time when the balance of power between the president and his official chroniclers has been as humiliatingly asymmetrical. While F.C.C. chairman Brendan Carr wages a blitzkrieg on the major broadcast networks, Trump and his press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, have been testing their ability to run roughshod over the press corps and its cherished traditions, with the Associated Press as their main foil and preferred piñata au courant. Meanwhile, an impotent W.H.C.A. led by Eugene Daniels, the newly anointed MSNBC weekend morning show co-host, has amassed just enough fortitude to issue a few forgettable press releases. (Yes, this would have been a better movie if Kaitlan Collins hadn’t been forced to forfeit the W.H.C.A. chair for that temp job in New York. Sliding doors.)