The White House Correspondents' Association dinner has been the biggest social event in Washington, D.C. for years -- but Saturday's event is expected to be lame compared
One of the main differences is that President Trump will not be present; he announced his decision in late February.
"I will not be attending the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner this year. Please wish everyone well and have a great evening!" he said in a tweet.
Instead, the president will travel to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to rally with supporters and members of his administration will also reportedly skip the annual event as a show of unity.
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uring a Saturday night speech in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Donald Trump mocked the White House Correspondents Dinner, the yearly event that he skipped in order to hold a rally.
At the very beginning of his event, Trump said that there is currently a large group of Hollywood actors and Washington media who are consoling each other at a ballroom in the nation’s capitol
Trump went on to say that he’d much rather be with his supporters in Pennsylvania.
“I could not possibly be more thrilled than to be more than 100 miles away from Washington’s swamp, spending my evening with all of you, and with a much, much larger crowd, and much better people,” Trump said.
Trump went on to say that the correspondents dinner is probably going to be “very, very boring” but that “next year maybe we’ll make it more exciting for them,” suggesting he could show up next year.
The president spent the next several minutes railing against the media, grading them on their first 100 days and accusing them of unfair coverage.
The White House Correspondents Dinner is a yearly event in which journalists and politicians gather in Washington for a night of drinks and jokes. The president almost always attends, but Donald Trump opted out of it this year, saying that he was skipped it because the media does not cover him accurately.
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