Trump to skip WHCA dinner, will host rally instead

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

President Donald Trump announced Friday that he will once again forgo the White House Correspondents’ Association's annual dinner, and will instead host a rally on the night of the event.

"Because the dinner is so boring and so negative, that we're going to hold a very positive rally instead," Trump told reporters on Friday ahead of his trip to Calexico, Calif.

Trump hasn't attended the dinner, once an annual event for the president, since taking office. In 2017, no one from the White House attended the dinner. Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and others from the administration attended the 2018 event.

The WHCA late last year announced that presidential historian and author Ron Chernow would be this year's speaker, breaking from the tradition of hosting a comedian who typically skewers the president and others in Washington. Trump was famously the subject of several jokes from comedian Seth Meyers at the 2011 dinner, which he attended.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/05/trump-rally-whca-dinner-1259349

[dawg day]

1. "You can dish it out, but you can't take it."

He's such a coward.

[George II]

2. This wasn't "boring", one of Obama's best moments:

[Dave Starsky]

12. That clip never fails to warm my heart.

Watching him sit helpless, seething with rage, while being gently publicly ridiculed.

[riversedge]

13. the audiance sure was having a good laugh on donald. te he.

[pangaia]

22. It's also one of the reasons donald hates Obama so much and keeps trying to destroy

anything he did....

[BigmanPigman]

33. Yep, that was the final straw for him.

His hate and desire for revenge were sealed in stone by this event.

[Turbineguy]

16. And while that was going on......

Navy Seals were on their way to smoke Osama bin Laden.

[patricia92243]

3. Gag

[grannyokie]

9. I second that emotion

He needs a hit of adoration, his addiction. Other than the people that worship him; his cult. He has no desire to hear from any other Americans. He can't take criticism. Have you ever in your lifetime seen such a powerful man so small so weak and needy? Garbage mouth!

[MyOwnPeace]

4. The room

is still filled with the steam that came out of his ears when PRESIDENT OBAMA roasted his fat ass!

[ScratchCat]

5. I love how he is framing

A hateful, xenophobic Cult meeting at the southern border in California a "very positive rally".

Hilarious, even by Trump standards.

I hope some MSM station carries it with a caption on the bottom of the screen saying "Trump's 'very positive' rally" while he is yelling hateful nonsense to the cheers of his fans.

[hlthe2b]

6. They should run a video segment of "BEST OF" past WHCD

with all the most recent Presidents, sans one. Of course the very best clips of Obama...

Then bring back a comedian to scorch Trump. You avoid the event, you pay the price.

And, let it go loooooong. That will get back to him.

[OnDoutside]

7. That's the thanks they get for weasely cutting the comedian.

[BigmanPigman]

34. They could have Kid Rock or Scott Baio host

it and he would still be a no show. He is too afraid of being laughed at and won't even take the chance. Mega-narcissist!

[C_U_L8R]

8. Thin skin

He’s such a coward

[eShirl]

10. It's his rallies that are boring and negative.

[jalan48]

11. Trump doesn't have a sense of humor appropriate for this event. His idea of humor is sadism.

[onit2day]

27. Trump ruins everything even this event which is normally the hottest event in Washington

[grannyokie]

14. Morning brooklynite

Stevie Wonder wrote this song about Richard Nixon. Someone here on DU told me that. I always liked this song. I often thought it resembles a lot of people we meet in passing or maybe work with. But boy it just fits Trump to a T. T for big orange turd.

The big orange dump

[47of74]

15. In the Orange Fornicate's mind these are more fun

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[grannyokie]

17. Exactly

“I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.”
― Adolf Hitler

"If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed"
_Adolf Hitler

[edbermac]

18. They should invite the Trump balloon instead.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

19. Nothing at the FAA yet.

https://www.faasafety.gov/SPANS/notices_public.aspx

[TommyCelt]

20. Coward in Chief n/t

[Paladin]

21. Chickenshit motherfucker.

That's right, go have yet another mini-Nuremberg adoration session with your drooling hordes. Here's hoping the WHCA rips you yet another asshole this year, something you can whine and squeal about, after it's history.

[Faygo Kid]

23. I would be there immediately for Ron Chernow

He is right up there with Bruce Catton, David McCullough and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. in the pantheon.

[Submariner]

24. Fly him to his rally in a 737 MAX as AF-1 and lets hope for the best

[cp]

25. No sense of humor

[cstanleytech]

26. Hardly surprising as he is very shallow and has a very thin skin.

[Firestorm49]

28. I'm sure they'll have a much better time without him.

[Mc Mike]

29. He's so thin skinned, for someone who prides himself on his tough guy persona.

But I'm sure his rally will be 'very positive'. He's famous for that.

[Irishxs]

30. People remark that he absolutely never laughs. Sad.

[bluescribbler]

31. Because

Of course. Trumplethnskin can't take the hear.

[LiberalLovinLug]

32. Its sad to see the WHCA be so neutered that they felt they had to steer clear of comedians.

Ever since Michelle Wolfe they no doubt felt pressure from Republicans who knew there was just way too much material gathered over the year that any comedian worth a grain of salt would have a field day on Trump. And by extension the R party.

So they've gone one step further from actually apologizing for a comedian, for their free speech, to now outright ostracizing comedians from the event.
Shame on them. I wish Samantha Bee and/or other comedians would host their own dinner.

[TeamPooka]

35. And fuck the White House Correspondents' Association for caving to that fuck by not booking a comic

weak ass shit you cowards
what did it get you? nothing.

[Totally Tunsie]

36. Thin skin on a Fat Ass...

not a great combination.

[YOHABLO]

37. Individuals with Narcissistic Personality Disorder probably are unable to laugh at themselves.