Trump announces on Twitter he will not attend White House Correspondents’ dinner

Trump also ramped up his war with the press, questioning whether or not many journalists are simply making up the stories he’s infamously derided as “fake news”.

President Trump said Tuesday morning he will highlight his signature issues and projects – including a beefed-up military, the economy, health care and the border – Tuesday night in his first speech to Congress.

“Most of the main organization throwing the White House Correspondents’ Dinner are the propagators of the some of the biggest and most blatant lies that they tell over and over again”, Coulter said of the gathering. Presidents have historically poked fun at themselves in speeches and skits and the opening toast of the WHCA has been “To the President of the United States”. “I also think it’s politics, that’s the way it is”.

“President Trump intends to submit a defense budget that is a mere 3 percent above President Obama’s defense budget, which has left our military underfunded, undersized, and unready to confront threats to our national security”, the Arizona Republican said in a statement.

One thing that Donald Trump might have been referring to when he said “his people”, referring to Barack Obama’s people, might have been the political group Organizing for Action that supports the policies of Barack Obama and left leaning politicians.

The president announced the news on Twitter Saturday, adding, “Please wish everyone well and have a great evening!”

“I have to write it off as being purely politics”, Trump said. This year’s will most likely be remembered for Trump’s absence.

In the interview with Fox, Trump also touched on the Academy Awards and accused the show of “pulling out the race card”. “We will ask for a form of reimbursement which right now I mean we have countries where we are taking care of their military, we are not being reimbursed and they are wealthy countries”, Trump stressed.

Trump’s first major initiative will land in the agencies one day before his first address to a joint session of Congress.

The only reason former President Ronald Reagan skipped it 36 years ago was because he was in the hospital recovering from a gunshot wound from an assassination attempt, CBS2’s Brian Conybeare reported.