Looks like not only Donald Trump, but everyone officially associated with the White House will be skipping the White House Correspondents’ Dinner this year. According to CNN’s Jake Tapper, a senior administration official said that White House Cabinet Secretary Bill McGinley announced this morning that all Trump administration officials have been ordered to skip the gala. According to Tapper, the unnamed source added that the order came directly from the president himself—“though staffers have been trying to talk him out of it.” Sounds about right.

Since his election, Trump has skipped the gala each year—first in 2017, when Hasan Minhaj hosted, and last year, when the job fell to Michelle Wolf. Although the former’s pointed speech pretty much went off without causing any lasting consequences, the latter’s caused a stir that continued for weeks. Washington insiders—conservatives in particular—took issue with a specific Wolf joke about White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, in which the comedian said that Sanders “burns facts and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smoky eye.”

As the debate over the joke grew more inflamed by the day, the president chose to sound off in a tweet at the time, writing, “Everyone is talking about the fact that the White House Correspondents Dinner was a very big, boring bust...the so-called comedian really ‘bombed.’” He suggested that conservative comedian Greg Gutfeld host this year; instead, the White House Correspondents’ Association chose Ron Chernow, a journalist and historian whose biographies are well known, with one even inspiring Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton.

Although Trump has skipped the White House Correspondents’ Dinner since becoming president, he did attend the gala at least once, in 2011. There, in the wake of Trump’s incessant and racist birther remarks regarding Barack Obama, host Seth Meyers made a series of famously scathing jokes that popular lore suggests might have, at least in part, spurred Trump to launch a presidential campaign in earnest in 2015. Regardless, even this year, comedians have roasted Trump for opting not to attend the dinner—and Samantha Bee will be dunking on the event by bringing back her competing “Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner” special, which will air at the same time as the official gala. So it seems the jokes will continue, boycott or not.

Representatives for the White House did not immediately respond to V.F.’s request for comment.

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