According to CNN, the White House has ordered Trump administration officials to boycott the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, according to a senior administration official.

The order was issued Tuesday morning by White House Cabinet Secretary Bill McGinley, who announced that all Trump administration officials are being ordered to boycott the dinner, scheduled for Saturday night.

CNN’s Jake Tapper tweeted, “Senior administration official: this morning White House Cabinet Secretary Bill McGinley announced that all Trump administration officials are being ordered to boycott the White House Correspondents Association dinner this weekend. Administration official adds that the order came from President Trump personally though staffers have been trying to talk him out of it.”

Senior administration official: this morning White House Cabinet Secretary Bill McGinley announced that all Trump administration officials are being ordered to boycott the White House Correspondents Association dinner this weekend.
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— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 23, 2019

2/ Administration official adds that the order came from President Trump personally though staffers have been trying to talk him out of it.

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 23, 2019

Trump on Tuesday announced he will head to Wisconsin for the rally he’ll hold instead of attending the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

Though he attended the star-studded event several times before running for office, including in 2011, when he was skewered for promoting the conspiracy theory that former President Barack Obama wasn’t born in the U.S., he has broken with years of tradition in not attending a single dinner since becoming president. He has instead hosted competing events with his supporters.

Several weeks ago, Trump told reporters he would again skip the event “because the dinner is so boring and so negative,” saying that “we’re going to hold a very positive rally instead.”

Last year, Trump sent press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders in his place, where she sat stone-faced as the featured entertainment that night, comedian Michelle Wolf, cracked jokes about Sanders’ appearance that many said were below the belt.