Donald Trump is ridiculed with memes after pulling out of the White House Correspondents' Dinner in startling break with tradition as his war with the media heats up

President Donald Trump has announced on Twitter that he will not be attending the White House Correspondents' Dinner this year. The dinner is planned for April 29, 2017, although it remains to be seen whether the evening will go ahead without the President. His decision to pull out makes him the first US president since its inception in 1920 to bail on the evening for reasons other than global complications such as war. The Washington tradition is held on the last Saturday of April every year at the Washington Hilton.