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		</div><p>There’s no love lost between Donald Trump and the press, and yet it still came as somewhat of a shock when the president announced he would be skipping the annual White House Correspondents Dinner.<br />
Now, he’s finally explained why he’s made this decision.</p>
<p>And where else would Trump go to give an interview than with Fox and Friends?</p>
<p>In a slightly bizarre moment, Trump agrees that he can accept criticism when it’s deserved – and yet he can’t think of a time he made a mistake. Instead, he uses the opportunity to hit out at fake news. He says: “I believe that a lot of the sources are made up, a lot of the stories are made up. I believe a lot of stories are pure fiction, they just pull it out of air.”</p>
<p>The White House Correspondents Dinner was first started in 1921 to pay tribute to the best political journalism of the year, and it also helped build a positive relationship between the press and the president’s administration. </p>
<p>According to the Hollywood Reporter, Trump is the first president to not attend the dinner since Ronald Reagan in 1981 – Reagan was then recovering from an assassination attempt and still apparently managed to phone in to the event.</p>
<p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/IMG_1155.jpg"><img src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/IMG_1155-1024x411.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="257" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-108210" /></a></p>
<p>Not only this, but last week the White House blocked several news outlets including CNN and the New York Times from attending an informal briefing.</p>
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<p>However, the president’s nonattendance doesn’t seem to bother the White House Correspondents’ Association, who organise the event. In a statement, the WHCA president Jeff Mason said: “We look forward to shining a spotlight at the dinner on some of the best political journalism of the past year.”</p>
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