--- title: Trump Holds Rally Night of White House Correspondents DInner description: President Trump will hold a rally in Pennsylvania to mark the first 100 days of his presidency on April 29, the same day as the WHCD canonical: https://time.com/4751756/trump-pennsylvania-rally-white-house-correspondents-dinner/ author: Alana Abramson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-23T15:05:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:54:23.469Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Is Hosting a Competing Event With the White House Correspondents' Dinner og:description: Trump will hold a rally in Pennsylvania og:url: https://time.com/4751756/trump-pennsylvania-rally-white-house-correspondents-dinner/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt08f94f6c2eef2d00/6988c3eb7cdbac4139d5804f/donald-trump-tax-plan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3456 og:image:height: 1944 og:image:alt: US-ITALY-DIPLOMACY og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Is Hosting a Competing Event With the White House Correspondents' Dinner twitter:description: Trump will hold a rally in Pennsylvania twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt08f94f6c2eef2d00/6988c3eb7cdbac4139d5804f/donald-trump-tax-plan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Trump Isn't Attending the White House Correspondents' Dinner. 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President Donald Trump announced in a tweet Saturday that he will skip this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner._  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Apr 23, 2017 3:05 PM UTC  US President Donald Trump speaks alongside Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni (L) during a press conference in the East Room at the White House in Washington, DC, April 20, 2017. US President Donald Trump speaks alongside Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni (L) during a press conference in the East Room at the White House in Washington, DC, April 20, 2017. SAUL LOEB—AFP/Getty Images  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Apr 23, 2017 3:05 PM UTC In another break with precedent, [President Trump](http://time.com/4751740/trump-100-days-health-care-bill-government-shutdown/) is not only declining to attend the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, he won’t even be in the nation’s Capitol while it’s taking place. Trump announced Saturday he will be holding a [rally](http://motto.time.com/4527915/trump-pussy-grab-shirt-rally/) in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to mark the first 100 days of his presidency on April 29\. “Next Saturday night I will be holding a BIG rally in Pennsylvania. Look forward to it!” Trump tweeted. > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/855816071663812608) The night of April 29 also happens to be the [White House Correspondents’ Dinner](http://motto.time.com/4653280/samantha-bee-white-house-correspondents-dinner-donald-trump/), an annual night of comedy that brings together the White House staff and the press that typically includes a satirical speech from the president. Since it was founded in 1921, the WHCD has hosted every President at least once. The last sitting president not to attend the dinner was Ronald Reagan, who phoned in after he was shot in 1981, according to [NPR](http://www.npr.org/2017/02/25/517257273/trump-will-be-first-president-in-36-years-to-skip-white-house-correspondents-din). **READ MORE:** [The 2017 White House Correspondents’ Dinner Will Feature Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein](http://time.com/4730173/white-house-correspondents-dinner-woodward-bernstein/?iid=sr-link2) Trump announced back in February that he [wouldn’t attend the dinner](http://time.com/4683002/president-trump-skip-white-house-correspondents-dinner/?iid=sr-link1), but, until Saturday’s tweet, it was unclear what his alternative plans would be. Jeff Mason, the President of the [White House Correspondents’ Association](http://www.whca.net/) and a reporter at Reuters, said this year’s dinner will be a celebration of the First Amendment regardless of Trump’s attendance. “We will be celebrating the First Amendment at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner next week, and we look forward to doing just that,” Mason said after Trump’s tweet, [the New York Times reports.](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/22/us/politics/trump-says-he-will-hold-rally-while-skipping-correspondents-dinner.html) ## Transcript Is this dinner too turkey for the Donald? [ LAUGH ] What could he possibly be doing instead? Is he at home eating a Trump steak? [ LAUGH ] Tweeting at insults to [ UNKNOWN ]? [ LAUGH ] What's he doing? [ MUSIC ] Fake news [ APPLAUSE ] Are there jokes tonight about that? Well I don't know if there are gonna be jokes. I mean it was great victory for me. I mean he finally gave the birth certificate. Donald Trump has been saying that he will run for President as Republican, which is surprising since I just assumed he was running as a joke. [ LAUGH ] All clearing aside. Obviously we all know about Your credentials and breadth of experience. [ LAUGH ] For example, no seriously just recently, in an episode of Celebrity Apprentice, at the steakhouse, the men's cooking team did not impress the judges from Omaha Steaks. [ LAUGH ] And there was a lot of blame to go around, but you, Mr. Trump, recognized that the real problem was a lack of leadership. And so ultimately you didn't blame Lil Jon or Meat Loaf. 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