POTUS to Skip White House Press Dinner for Third Year in a Row – IOTW Report

POTUS to Skip White House Press Dinner for Third Year in a Row

Saturday, 6 April 2019, 12:15 BFH Uncategorized 17

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President Donald Trump told reporters on April 5 that he would skip the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner scheduled for later this month.

Trump’s comments confirm that he will not attend the event for the third year in a row. As he was leaving the White House on his trip to the southern border in California, he told reporters that the event was not to his liking.

Instead, he said he would hold one of his MAGA-style rallies as a counter-program to the April 27 press dinner. The president’s rallies often gather tens of thousands of supporters. In a recent rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Trump drew in 14,000 supporters who filled the Van Andel Arena stadium to capacity, with nearly 20,000 outside.

“The dinner is so boring and so negative that we’re going to hold a very positive rally instead,” he said.

Presidents and first ladies have traditionally attended the event, and a number of reporting awards also are distributed at the dinner. Trump has not been to the dinner since he took office but had suggested he might appear this year after organizers scrapped the usual format featuring a comedian and instead invited Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow to speak.

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17 Comments on POTUS to Skip White House Press Dinner for Third Year in a Row

  9. Why have a White House press dinner when all the MSM press wants to do is bad-mouth him on any and all issues. Thats like walking down a dark back alley where you’ve been mugged and beaten many time, just to see if the muggers are still around.

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