yorker" was not planning on going this year. i've been a member of the white house correspondents association since 2001. and been to most of the dinners since then. but that dinner, there's a moment in that dinner where everyone gets up and actually toasts the president. and i personally don't see how the white house press corps can get up and toast a president that is calling us the enemy of the american people. someone that in a speech at cpac this week, seemed to mock the first amendment or reporters citing the first amendment. this white house is at war with the press. and my own view is it wouldn't have been appropriate to have the president at the white house correspondents association din they are year. so i frankly think trump did everyone a favor and made it a lot easier to make that decision. the white house correspondents association, the purpose of that dinner is a fundraiser for its scholarship program. that is an extremely important. it's the, is the one event where