US President Donald Trump has announced he will not attend the White House Correspondents' Association dinner on 29 April.
The announcement, made via Twitter, comes as relations between the White House and some media outlets continue to deteriorate.
On Friday, media groups including the BBC, CNN, the New York Times, the Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, Buzzfeed, the Daily Mail and Politico were among those banned from a briefing held by White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer.
Every sitting president since 1924 has attended the correspondents' dinner at least once
Mr Trump has himself attended the dinner in the past In 2011, Barack Obama joked that Mr Trump would turn the White House into a casino if he became president and made fun of rumours, then propagated by Mr Trump, that President Obama was not born in the US.
The New York businessman was shown on camera sitting stony-faced through a barrage of jokes at his expense, including some from host Seth Meyers, although he said last year that he "loved that dinner".
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