The rescheduled event comes months after the dinner was abruptly cut short by a shooting and security scare.

ABC News and NBC News both announced Thursday that they will carry President Donald Trump's 9 p.m. ET speech live on their respective streaming news services while limiting broadcast network coverage,

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Ahead of President Donald Trump's primetime address to the nation on July 16, ABC and NBC confirmed they will not be broadcasting it live.

The president later spoke at a campaign rally-style event in Georgia, where he talked up Trump Accounts and bashed Democrats as “communists.”

Reactions on both sides of the aisle poured in on social media following reports that NBC and ABC will not air President Donald Trump’s address to the nation on Thursday night. While many praised the networks’ decision not to amplify his continued pushing of debunked election conspiracies,

From CNN to Fox News: How the networks handled President Donald Trump's primetime address to the nation on July 16.