Agenda – Dinner Program
5:30pm- Registration
6:00pm – Dinner
6:30pm – Program
What does it actually look like when the most powerful office in the world operates without the guardrails that once defined it?
From two of the reporters who have covered him more closely than perhaps anyone else over the past decade comes this insider portrait of Donald Trump in the White House. Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan pull back the curtain on the second Trump presidency; a term unlike anything that has come before it. The generals who once said no are gone. The lawyers who remain have learned to choose their battles carefully. What’s left is a presidency operating almost entirely on instinct, willing to take risks that have rattled global markets, challenged long-standing democratic norms, and forced world leaders to fundamentally reconsider what American power means.
Based on hundreds of interviews and reporting from deep within the administration’s most closely guarded spaces, Haberman and Swan will take us inside the Situation Room deliberations, the Oval Office decisions, and the moments that have defined this unprecedented term. They’ll discuss how a presidency shaped by indictments, convictions, and four years of exile emerged not weakened but emboldened — more powerful, more consequential, and more willing to push boundaries than any administration in modern history.
This conversation goes beyond the daily headlines to examine the deeper forces reshaping American governance and its place in the world. How has the Justice Department been transformed? How are world leaders recalibrating their relationships with Washington? Who has tried to stop this shift and why have so many failed? And what does all of this mean for the future of American institutions, alliances, and global stability? These are the questions that Haberman and Swan will be exploring at the event.
