President Donald Trump has announced that he will not attend this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner, a move that comes amid increasingly hostile relations between the media and the White House.
"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.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/25/politics/trump-declines-to-attend-white-house-correspondents-dinner/index.html
I personally feel that the President should attend out of simple respect for the non-fake segment of the media.
He gave a hilarious speech at the Alfred E. Smith Charity Dinner with Cardinal Dolan, last October.
Wonder if the Secret Service advised Pres. Trump not to attend the dinner, for his own safety.(?) i.e., the fake press people seem to be getting desperate to maintain traction on Trump-ice.
According to CNN (and 1 grain of salt):
Several news organizations had already withdrawn from the April 29 event in protest of Trump's treatment of the media. Vanity Fair and Bloomberg, which usually co-host an exclusive, star-studded after-party, have canceled that gala, while The New Yorker similarly canceled its pre-party April 28.
If this report is true (questionable) maybe this will finally spell the end of the Dinner, pity, because it was always such great fun, esp. under Bush and Obama.
T.T.
