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The White House Correspondents Dinner was not kind to Donald Trump in 2011, when President Barack Obama and emcee Seth Meyers teased him mercilessly. It was clear Trump wasn't having fun.
Now, for the second time since being elected, President Trump will skip the Washington dinner April 28.
Instead, he'll come to Michigan that night and speak at a 7 p.m. rally in Washington Township in Macomb County.
"While the fake news media will be celebrating themselves with the denizens of Washington society in the swamp that evening, President Trump will be in a completely different Washington, celebrating our national economic revival with patriotic Americans," Trump campaign chief operating officer Michael Glassner says in a release, according to CNN.
It's a tradition at those dinners that people poke fun at the president, who in turn takes some shots at the media.
A Deadline reader in Troy reacts to the news this way:
Why is a US President wasting time and money on rallies? Does he know he “won” the election? Is he running for another office? Does he think he’s in a band and their on tour?
— Adrianna O'Brien (@AddiBb813) April 18, 2018
