On Saturday, Pres. Donald Trump announced that he would not be attending the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and Twitter users had a field day joking at the president’s inability to, well, take a joke.

Perhaps Trump was traumatized by what happened at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner at which then-Pres. Barack Obama made Trump the butt of several jokes after Trump’s very public efforts to delegitimize and humiliate him by way of the “birther” canard and a demand to see Obama’s college transcripts.

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Trump to the media: You're not breaking up with me. I'm breaking up with YOU. https://t.co/qza1fAMbTD — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 25, 2017

.@realDonaldTrump The good news is that if Trump wants to avoid places he's being made fun of, he'll never be able to go anywhere again. — Nick Jack Pappas (@Pappiness) February 25, 2017

Maybe Frederick Douglass can take Trump's place. — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 25, 2017

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Trump would be first the president to skip the WHCD since 1981. Reagan planned to attend, but had a pretty good excuse – he'd been shot — Domenico Montanaro (@DomenicoNPR) February 25, 2017

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This is equivalent of calling a girl ugly because she didn't want to date you. They were about to boycott you anyway. Deuces https://t.co/mAm9nu2Bvv — Matthew A. Cherry (@MatthewACherry) February 25, 2017

@realDonaldTrump Emperor Trump can't take a joke? Precious snowflake runs the world's greatest nation but humor is too much for him. Weak! — Kyre Stucklin (@DoingDiscovery) February 25, 2017

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trump didn't write this and i can tell because

a) the apostrophe is in the right place

b) there is only one exclamation mark

c) it is mature pic.twitter.com/fY7OCaosUd — Anne T. Donahue (@annetdonahue) February 25, 2017

And thus ends the strange experiment known as the WHCD? — Michael Barbaro (@mikiebarb) February 25, 2017