'I was brought in to unite': Mentalist Oz Pearlman to host White House Correspondents' Dinner

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Source: ABC News

April 19, 2026, 1:43 PM


Oz Pearlman, better known by many as Oz the Mentalist, has stunned some of the world's richest and most powerful people with his ability to seemingly read their minds and conjure up information even their closest friends wouldn't have access to. But Pearlman will be the first to tell you he's not actually reading anyone's mind. He's just reading people.

As this year's host of the White House Correspondents' Dinner, Pearlman is facing perhaps his toughest match yet: the sitting president of the United States, Donald Trump.

"This will be a career-defining moment," Pearlman told ABC News' "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl. "I think it's going to be the ultimate challenge, and it's also the most authentic, genuine reaction, because when I do things, the easiest solution is always, 'Well, they're in on it, right?'". "President Trump, you know, everyone knows is not going to be in on anything," Pearlman said.

Pearlman is also excited by the makeup of the rest of the crowd: "I think it's an incredible opportunity, just in terms of being in a room full of skeptical journalists. That is my bread and butter, to amaze people that like getting to the bottom of things."

Read more: https://abcnews.com/Politics/brought-unite-mentalist-oz-pearlman-host-white-house/story?id=132181500

[Midnight Writer]

1. Wonder what he'll say when he reads Trump's mind and it is all teenage girls and Big Macs?

[BattleRow]

5. Is there even a mind to read?

[paleotn]

2. That's just mental.

Donnie isn't going to the Correspondents Dinner. He never does. Tissue paper skin.

[displacedvermoter]

3. This thing is always a travesty

Show some pride, some of you at least, and and stay home and get drunk.

Or better yet, actually do some journalism. Investigate the fraud, and criminality, and depravity being perpetrated by the same degenerates you are going to go get mesmerized with by Mr Oz!

[JoseBalow]

4. At least there'll be one charlatan in attendance

[ToxMarz]

6. And they can get someone to pull a rabbit out of a hat

and saw a woman in a box in half. Woo hoo.

[cab67]

7. These are times when I wish James Randi was around.

Any professional stage magician can make someone like Pearlman look stupid.

[BigmanPigman]

8. What a joke! Who thought of this "entertainment"?

[wolfie001]

9. A "mentalist"

Is he gonna bend forks? Rich rePUKES are such weirdos. Peter Thiel being one of the biggest weirdos on the planet. Also, the celebrities attending L. Ron Hubbard's birthday bash at their HQ recently.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. Over 250 journalists call on the White House Correspondents Association re Trump's attacks on the 1st Amendment

Great statement by these journalists

Link to tweet

Over 250 journalists signed a letter to the White House Correspondents Association asking them to send a message condemning Donald Trump’s attacks on the First Amendment:

“The collective weight of the administration's actions - retaliatory access bans, coercive regulatory investigations, frivolous lawsuits against the press, defunding of public broadcasting, dismantling of international broadcasting, physical restrictions on journalists, personal verbal attacks on reporters, assaults on the media in official White House press releases and social media posts, the arrest of journalists, and the pardoning of those who committed violence against the press - represent the most systematic and comprehensive assault on freedom of the press by a sitting American president.”

The letter proceeds to list all of his attacks.