For 17 years, HuffPost has attended the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, the televised annual gathering of political journalists in Washington, D.C. This year, we cannot stomach it. We’re skipping. The dinner has always had its critics. When the sitting U.S. president attended — the norm until Trump took office in 2017 — journalists were celebrating at a black-tie gala with the very people they were supposed to hold accountable. This uneasy arrangement infamously veered