President Donald Trump has announced that he will not be attending the White House Correspondents' Dinner this year in a shocking break with tradition.

'I will not be attending the White House Correspondents' Association dinner this year. Please wish everyone well and have a great evening!' Trump tweeted on Saturday afternoon.

Social media users were quick to mock Trump's decision, and memes ensued.

His announcement comes amid growing tensions between his administration and media outlets.

Trump attended the dinner in 2011 with his wife Melania where he was repeatedly mocked by then-president Barack Obama.

He skipped the dinner in 2016 during the presidential campaign where Obama again took aim at the then-candidate, saying: 'I'm a little hurt that he's not here tonight. It's surprising. You got a room full of reporters, celebrities, cameras, and he says no.'

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President Donald Trump has announced on his Twitter that he will not be attending the White House Correspondents' Dinner this year

Social media users were quick to call Trump out on his decision not to attend and created memes

While he has not cancelled the event, Trump is breaking tradition by not attending the dinner on April 29.

He will be the first president not to attend in 36 years - in 1981 Ronald Reagan was recovering after being shot.

The annual dinner has only been cancelled or downsized before due to death or other major global events.

In 1930, the dinner was cancelled due to the death of President Taft. In 1942 it was cancelled due to the United States entry into the Second World War and in 1951 President Truman cancelled it over what he referred to as the 'uncertainty of the world situation.'

Donald Trump and Melania Trump attend the 101st Annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Washington Hilton on April 25 2015

However, he did not say that he would be cancelling the event completely.

Trump was pictured attending the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner back in 2015 (above)

The White House Correspondents' Association is an organization of journalists whose job it is to cover the acting president.

The yearly dinner has become somewhat of a Washington tradition after it was started in 1920. It is traditionally held on the last Saturday of April every year at the Washington Hilton.

The Dinner is held as a scholarship benefit, raising money for gifted students in college journalism programs.

Multiple major news networks such as CNN, the New Yorker, and Vanity Fair had already announced that they were thinking about not attending the annual dinner.

It comes as Trump has quickly made himself known as an 'anti-press' president having criticized many major news networks as being 'fake news'.

The President this week blocked multiple news outlets, including the New York Times, CNN, Buzzfeed, and DailyMail.com from a press gaggle with Sean Spicer.

Trump attended the dinner in 2011 where he was repeatedly roasted by Barack Obama. The then-president projected an image on screen of what a Trump White House might look like

The annual dinner was likely going to be a logistical public relations nightmare for his administration given the event traditionally features a comedian brought in to roast the president and other celebrities in attendance.

The commander-in-chief usually then takes the microphone and fires back with some one-liners of their own.

Trump, who has been roasted at many correspondents' dinners in the past, was likely to take a beating from comedians and news organizations alike.

Seeing as it is customary for the president to speak, Trump would have had to find the fine line between humor and criticism at the dinner.