The latest way Trump is thumbing his nose at the press | By Mark Weinberg for CNNOpinion
Mark Weinberg is a communications consultant, speechwriter and the author of"Movie Nights with the Reagans" . He served as special assistant to the president and assistant press secretary in Ronald Reagan's White House, and as director of public affairs in former President Reagan's office. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on CNN.
For the third year in a row, Donald Trump is refusing to attend the White House Correspondents' Association annual dinner. He has, instead, scheduled a political rally in Wisconsin for the exact same time frame as the dinner this weekend. And it has been reported that he has ordered senior aides to also stay away.
Some may lament the fact that Trump has chosen not to show his support for the press by attending the dinner, but it's really okay that he won't be there. There is a case to be made that Trump deserves credit for being authentic in his unwillingness to participate in a ritual in which people who really do not like, trust, or respect each other pretend to.
Trump slams WH correspondents' dinner 01:26 Sadly, Sanders seems not to care about the fact that on the increasingly rare occasions when she graces the podium with her presence, she does so in a room named to honor one of the truly great White House press secretaries in recent memory, my former boss, the late James S. Brady.
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