President Donald Trump says he's got better things to do than attend the "boring" and "negative" White House Correspondents' Association dinner. Trump said Friday he'll hold one of his signature political rallies as counter-programming to the glitzy April 27 press dinner, skipping the event for the third year in a row. "The dinner is so boring and so negative that we're going to hold a very positive rally instead," he said. The association decided to shift to a featured speaker instead of a comic after a sharply anti-Trump performance last year by comedian Michelle Wolf that some thought was too pointed against White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and other White House staff. While Trump has not attended the dinner as president, he has gone in the past.

Source: ABC News April 05, 2019 14:38 UTC