“The Daily Show’s” Hasan Minhaj, who is hosting the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in DC, was asked by organizers not to make fun of President Donald Trump, who will not be in attendance, says a source who saw the comic at the Village Underground on Thursday.

“It was a polite request because Trump is so thin-skinned,” the source said.

Reuters’ Jeff Mason, who is president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, insists he never said Trump was “thin-skinned,” but added that he wanted a balanced event.

“I was not looking for someone to roast the president in absentia,” he told us. “It’s a very different dinner without the president there. We will be focused on the First Amendment and journalism and the importance of a free press . . . That doesn’t mean there can’t be some jokes about the president, but just that there should be some jokes on the press.”

Minhaj tested material for the Nerd Prom, such as, “How Trump is sober, meaning he has no excuse for any of the late-night tweets or things he says,” says the source.