Writing on his social media platform Truth Social in response, Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for the presidential election wrote: "White House Correspondents' Dinner was really bad. Colin Jost BOMBED, and Crooked Joe was an absolute disaster! Doesn't get much worse than this!"

As a menswear writer, I watched the glitz and glam of the red carpet from afar with decidedly mixed emotions. Some of the stars (and their co-partiers who count as stars in the Beltway) nailed their looks.