MEDIA/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [4-16-19] announced he will head to Wisconsin for the rally he’ll hold instead of attending the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner. His reelection campaign rolled out details about the Green Bay, Wis., event that will take place next Saturday while much of Washington’s press corps heads to the annual journalism celebration Trump has scorned since he became president. Though he attended the star-studded event several times before running for office, including in 2011, when he was skewered for promoting the conspiracy theory that former President Barack Obama wasn’t born in the U.S., he has broken with years of tradition in not attending a single dinner since becoming president. He has instead hosted competing events with his supporters. Several weeks ago, Trump told reporters he would again skip the event ‘because the dinner is so boring and so negative,’ saying that ‘we’re going to hold a very positive rally instead.’”
–Caitlin Oprysko, “Trump rolls out details for his White House Correspondents’ Dinner counter-rally,” Politico, April 16, 2019 12:35 pm