And, for the second year, Trump himself skipped the annual dinner of the White House Correspondents' Association, preferring to criticize journalists and others during a campaign-style rally near Detroit. "Is this better than that phony Washington White House Correspondents' Dinner? Everyone is talking about the fact that the White House Correspondents Dinner was a very big, boring bust...the so-called comedian really 'bombed,"' Trump asserted on Twitter. A slew of cutting comments about press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders came as Sanders sat just a few feet away. —@maggieNYTUnlike last year, when Trump aides also declined to attend, the Trump White House had its contingent, including counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.

Source: CBC News April 29, 2018 03:45 UTC