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WHCA Announces World Renowned Mentalist Oz Pearlman as Entertainer for its Annual Dinner

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The WHCA is a nonprofit member organization for White House journalists that helps facilitate robust coverage of the presidency.

Who is in the WHCA

Our membership encompasses a diverse group of journalists who cover the White House, including 900 individual members and more than 250 news outlets of all kinds and sizes, from a range of viewpoints, mediums and audiences and from locations across the U.S. and the world.

Why Our Work Matters

We serve as the go-between for our members and the White House – to fight for the broadest access to officials, policies, events and trips and the smoothest logistics and operations. This enables the journalists who cover the White House to seek answers from our nation’s highest office on behalf of the American people, who need unfiltered information about government officials to stay informed and make decisions critical to their lives. It is core to our organization’s mission, to American democracy itself, and to the needs of the American people to ensure the press has the ability to independently report on the presidency, without control from the government.

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icon-external-link WHCA Taps Mentalist Oz Pearlman As Entertainer (Deadline, 02/28/2026)
icon-external-link No joke: WHCA taps mentalist as dinner headliner (Washington Times, 02/28/2026)
icon-external-link Mentalist Oz Pearlman Tapped As Entertainer for This Year’s White House Correspondents Dinner (Hollywood Reporter, 02/28/2026)
icon-external-link Analysis – Why Trump Keeps Getting Away With Insulting Female White House Reporters (The Wrap, 12/10/2025)
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