Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said his disinvitation from the 2026 National Governors Association dinner is a “snub” to bipartisan federal-state partnerships, a move he said reflects a broader effort by President Donald Trump to divide institutions traditionally built on cooperation.
“As the nation’s only Black governor, I can’t ignore that being singled out for exclusion from this bipartisan tradition carries an added weight — whether that was the intent or not,” Moore said in a news release Sunday.
The annual dinner is a long-standing tradition meant to foster unity among the nation’s governors and the president of the United States. This year, however, Democratic governors were excluded from the business meeting, and two of those governors — Moore and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis — were not invited to the dinner.
Moore said in the release Sunday that he learned earlier this week that he was uninvited from the dinner. Moore was elected to serve as the association’s vice chair in July, which he said is another reason it is “hard not to see this decision as another example of blatant disrespect” and a snub to the spirit of bipartisan federal-state partnership.
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