'Speaks Volumes': Kentucky Gov Boycotting White House Dinner After Trump Refuses to Invite Nation's Only Black Governor [View all]

Source: MEDIAite

Feb 14th, 2026, 6:30 pm


Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) vowed Saturday that he will not attend the upcoming White House dinner for governor’s and their families because of President Donald Trump’s refusal to invite Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO) and Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD), who is the sole Black governor in the nation.

In a confusing turn of events, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) — who chairs the National Governors Association — claimed earlier this week that the president was only inviting Republican governors to the normally bipartisan meeting and dinner. Trump took to Truth Social to claim that Stitt got it all “WRONG,” and that he was not excluding all Democrats — only Polis and Moore were not invited to the dinner.

Trump wrote, “I did not invite the Governor of Colorado, who has unfairly incarcerated in solitary confinement a 73-year-old cancer stricken woman (A nine year term!), for attempting to fight Democrat Voter Fraud, plus the foul mouthed Governor of Maryland, who fraudulently stated that he received Military medals, A LIE, is doing a terrible job on the rebuilding of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, and has allowed Baltimore to continue to be a Crime Disaster.”

Moore has said he will skip the meeting altogether if he’s excluded from the dinner. Beshear told MS NOW’s Al Sharpton that he won’t attend the event either if his friend Moore is excluded. “Nearly everything that Trump touches, he destroys,” Beshear began. “He has taken a annual bipartisan tradition, and he’s turned it into his own 12-year-old birthday party, where he’s going to invite some people and not invite others. ‘Everybody but Billy is invited.'”

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As a note - there are 2 different White House "events" with this story - "a bipartisan meeting" and "a bipartisan dinner" (and the governors also meet with just themselves as part of their annual program).