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Q: President Trump announced Saturday he will not be attending this year's White House Correspondents' Association dinner, a break with past presidents. 
  
 "I will not be attending the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner this year. Please wish everyone well and have a great evening!" Trump tweeted. 
  
 I will not be attending the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner this year. Please wish everyone well and have a great evening! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 25, 2017 
  
 The president's announcement comes amid growing tensions between his administration and the media, with several news organizations including CNN saying they may not participate in this year's event at the Washington Hilton. 
  
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 The dinner honors journalists who cover the White House and awards scholarships to aspiring reporters. 
  
 The White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA), which organizes the annual dinner, said in a statement the event will continue as planned on April 29 despite Trump's absence. 
  
 WHCA president Jeff Mason said the dinner "has been and will continue to be a celebration of the First Amendment and the important role played by an independent news media in a healthy republic." 
  
 "We look forward to shining a spotlight at the dinner on some of the best political journalism of the past year and recognizing the promising students who represent the next generation of our profession," he added. 
  
 The WHCA typically invites the president and members of his staff. A comedian is brought in to roast the commander in chief, who then delivers lighthearted remarks. 
  
 Trump attended the dinner in 2011, where he was repeatedly mocked and teased by then-President Obama. Trump chose to skip the dinner during the 2016 presidential campaign, despite receiving a number of invites from the media. 
  
 Many have speculated that Trump's appearance at the 2011 dinner fueled his desire to enter the political arena. 
  
 Trump for months had cast doubt on the authenticity of Obama's birth certificate in an effort to question whether he was eligible to occupy the Oval Office. After Obama released the certificate, he mocked Trump at length during his speech at the dinner while the business mogul sat in the audience. 
  
 “Now, I know that he's taken some flak lately, but no one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than The Donald,” Obama said. “And that's because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter, like, did we fake the moon landing? What really happened in Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac?” 
  
 Trump brushed aside Obama's comments during an interview days later on Fox News. 
  
 “I didn’t know that I’d be virtually the sole focus. I guess when you’re leading in the polls that sort of thing tends to happen," he said. 
  
 "But I was certainly in a certain way having a good time listening." 
  
 Past dinners have attracted celebrities and athletes from outside of Washington. The association hosted the first dinner in 1921. 
  
 Ronald Reagan was the last president to miss the event after he was shot in a 1981 assassination attempt. Calvin Coolidge became the first sitting president to attend in 1924. 
  
 Trump's decision is his latest jab at news outlets, which he has attempted to delegitimize by labeling "fake news" and "dishonest." 
  
 “I love the First Amendment; nobody loves it better than me. Nobody,” Trump said Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference. 
  
 “But as you saw throughout the entire campaign, and even now, the fake news doesn't tell the truth,” he continued. “I say it doesn't represent the people, it never will represent the people, and we're going to do something about it.” 
  
 Bloomberg L.P., which hosts a high-profile after-party for the dinner, had pulled the plug on the event. Vanity Fair, which usually partners with Bloomberg in throwing the party, announced earlier this month that it would not participate. 
  
 The New Yorker, the magazine that hosts a kickoff party before the dinner, canceled its event earlier this month, while CNN and MSNBC are also reportedly deliberating whether they will pull out of the annual dinner. 
  
 Trump's announcement comes a day after his administration's latest clash with the media. 
  
 The White House faced backlash after press secretary Sean Spicer barred several news outlets from attending a briefing in his office on Friday. 
  
 Several news organizations including The New York Times, The Hill, Politico and CNN were barred from the question-and-answer session, among others. Several right-leaning news organizations were allowed to attend, along with some major networks like ABC. 
  
 The Associated Press and Time magazine, whose correspondents were allowed into Spicer’s briefing, refused to attend, because of the way it was handled. 
  
 Almost immediately, news outlets and journalist groups blasted the decision, including the WHCA. 
  
 “The WHCA board is protesting strongly against how today's gaggle is being handled by the White House,” Mason said Friday. 
  
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 President Trump will not attend the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, after a campaign and early tenure during which he has continually battled with the press. 
  
 Trump announced his decision on Twitter late Saturday afternoon. The dinner is scheduled for April 29. 
  
 On Sunday, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders acknowledged on ABC’s “This Week” that there had been tensions between the president and the media. 
  
 “I think it’s … kind of naive of us to think that we can all walk into a room for a couple of hours and pretend that some of that tension isn’t there,” Sanders told “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos. 
  
 Trump would skip the dinner to instead “spend the night focused on what he can do to help better America, Sanders said. 
  
 “You know, one of the things we say in the South [is] ‘If a Girl Scout egged your house, would you buy cookies from her?’ I think that this is a pretty similar scenario,” Sanders added. “There’s no reason for him to go in and sit and pretend like this is going to be just another Saturday night.” 
  
 (The response came at the end of her appearance on the show. “Pretty straight answer,” Stephanopoulos replied. “I think a lot would argue the eggs have gone both ways on that. But we’re going to have to leave it there today.”) 
  
 I will not be attending the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner this year. Please wish everyone well and have a great evening! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 25, 2017 
  
 Shortly after Trump’s tweet on Saturday, the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, which sponsors the annual event, said in an email that the dinner would take place even without Trump’s attendance. 
  
 The dinner “has been and will continue to be a celebration of the First Amendment and the important role played by an independent news media in a healthy republic,” said Jeff Mason, WHCA president. “We look forward to shining a spotlight at the dinner on some of the best political journalism of the past year and recognizing the promising students who represent the next generation of our profession.” 
  
 Since Trump’s inauguration, calls to boycott the annual event have grown louder amid his increasingly fraught relationship with the press. Throughout his campaign, he regularly lashed out at the press, singling out news outlets as being “dishonest” and at one point barring The Washington Post from covering his campaign events. Since his election, he has accused certain media outlets of publishing “fake news.” Earlier this month, the tense relationship reached a boil when Trump called the media “the enemy of the American People.” 
  
 In response to concerns, the White House Correspondents’ Association released a statement this month saying the dinner would take place. Vanity Fair, the New Yorker and Bloomberg canceled their parties, which usually draw celebrities. Comedian Samantha Bee announced in January that she was planning an alternative event on the same night for “journalists and non-irritating celebrities from around the world.” (Its tentative name: “Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.”) 
  
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 Questions about whether the dinner was appropriate existed before Trump took office. The event is an annual gathering of journalists and the people they cover, typically headlined by the sitting president. The White House Correspondents’ Association awards $100,000 in scholarships at the annual dinner, according to its website, and recently started a mentoring program that pairs working journalists with journalism students. 
  
 The annual dinner began in 1921, and in 1924, Calvin Coolidge became the first president to attend the dinner. In 1978, Jimmy Carter declined to attend, citing exhaustion. First lady Rosalynn Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale also didn’t show up that year, according to The Post’s Paul Farhi. 
  
 In 1981, President Ronald Reagan managed to deliver remarks by phone even though he was at Camp David recovering from an assassination attempt. 
  
 “If I could give you just one little bit of advice, when somebody tells you to get in a car quick, do it,” Reagan said to laughter. 
  
 Trump has attended the dinner before. 
  
 President Obama and comedian Seth Meyers skewered Donald Trump at the 2011 White House correspondents' dinner. From the birther movement to his potential run for president, here's a look back at some of their jabs. (The Washington Post) 
  
 In 2011, then-President Barack Obama roasted Trump at the dinner — five minutes of jokes directed at the man who had raised questions about whether Obama was born in the United States. 
  
 “No one is happier, no one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than the Donald,” said Obama, who ultimately released his birth certificate. “That’s because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter, like: Did we fake the moon landing? What really happened in Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac?” 
  
 At the time, Obama joked about Trump’s experience to lead the nation. 
  
 [Did the 2011 White House correspondents’ dinner spur Trump to run for president?] 
  
 “All kidding aside, obviously, we all know about your credentials and breadth of experience,” Obama said. “For example, no, seriously, just recently in an episode of ‘Celebrity Apprentice,’ at the steakhouse, the men’s cooking team did not impress the judges from Omaha Steaks. And there was a lot of blame to go around, but you, Mr. Trump, recognized that the problem was a lack of leadership and so, ultimately, you didn’t blame Little John or Meatloaf — you fired Gary Busey. And these are the kinds of decisions that would keep me up at night. Well-handled, sir. Well-handled.” 
  
 Obama ended his roast talking about the change a President Trump would bring to the White House. 
  
 Then he flashed a picture of the then-hypothetical Trump White house, emblazoned with pink neon and gold columns, with bikini-clad women relaxing in the fountain outside. 
  
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 Donald Trump will be skipping the White House Correspondents' Dinner on April 29. 
  
 "I will not be attending the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner this year. Please wish everyone well and have a great evening!" Trump tweeted on Saturday afternoon. 
  
 I will not be attending the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner this year. Please wish everyone well and have a great evening! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 25, 2017 
  
 Trump's decision comes after CNN, The New York Times, Politico and several other major media outlets were blocked from attending a Friday White House press briefing. The president also continued to express his dislike for "fake news" media and targeted reporters' use of anonymous sources while speaking to the Conservative Political Action Committee on Friday. 
  
 White House Correspondents' Association president Jeff Mason said in a statement that the group has noted Trump's announcement and is still looking forward to the April 29 dinner, "which has been and will continue to be a celebration of the First Amendment and the important role played by an independent news media in a healthy republic. 
  
 "We look forward to shining a spotlight at the dinner on some of the best political journalism of the past year and recognizing the promising students who represent the next generation of our profession," the statement concludes. 
  
 WHCA statement on 2017 White House Correspondents' Dinner pic.twitter.com/mMOXaozwHj — Jeff Mason (@jeffmason1) February 25, 2017 
  
 Bloomberg recently canceled their annual party in celebration of the dinner. The business outlet usually co-hosts the event with Conde Nast's Vanity Fair, but the magazine pulled out earlier this month. The New Yorker also canceled its event that evening. 
  
 Sources previously told THR the casts of House of Cards, Veep and Scandal will also likely not be in attendance, though they were present at the event during the Obama years. 
  
 The same evening as the dinner, TBS' Samantha Bee is planning her own event, a "Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner" at the Willard Hotel in the nation's capital, raising funds to support the Committee to Protect Journalists. 
  
 A host has yet to be named for the Correspondents' dinner. Stephen Colbert, however, said he would be "honored" to take the stage, and Trevor Noah told THR he would be up for the job if asked. 
  
 Trump's decision is historical as it's been a longtime tradition that the president make an appearance at the dinner. He will be the first president to skip the dinner since Ronald Reagan in 1981, who missed the dinner while recovering from an assassination attempt, but still delivered remarks over the phone. |||||
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With trouble already brewing around the event—the Washington Post reports there were calls for news outlets to boycott, and several had already dropped out, according to the Hill—President Trump announced Saturday he wouldn't be attending the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner. "Please wish everyone well and have a great evening!" he tweeted Saturday. The event for the political press is typically headlined by the president. The tension leading up to this year's dinner, to be held on April 29, is not exactly shocking given Trump's ongoing war with the media. The Hollywood Reporter reports both Bloomberg and Vanity Fair had already canceled the afterparty they typically host following the event. (Meanwhile, comedian Samantha Bee is counter-programming the White House Correspondents' Dinner with an epic Trump roast.)