For the third straight year, Donald Trump says he will skip the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

In a pool spray outside the White House Friday ahead of his trip to the U.S.-Mexico border, Trump announced plans to hold a MAGA rally instead of the event, as he considers the dinner to be “too negative.”

“I’m going to hold a rally,” Trump said. “Yeah, because the dinner is so boring and so negative that we’re going to hold a very positive rally.”

Trump said that the location for the rally is still up in the air.

“We haven’t determined,” he said. “We have about three sites. Everybody wants it. It’ll be a big one. But the correspondents’ dinner is too negative. I like positive things.”

During last year’s WHCA dinner, which raises scholarship money for journalism students, Trump held a rally in Michigan.

That same year, the black-tie fête ignited a media firestorm when the night’s headliner, comedian Michelle Wolf, drew widespread condemnation for her explicit remarks that torched Trump administration officials.

Wolf blasted White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who was sitting onstage during the former Netflix talk show host’s remarks, saying “she burns facts and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smokey eye.”

In the wake of the controversy, the WHCA announced last year that it was forgoing its tradition of tapping comedians and late-night TV hosts to serve as the entertainment at its marquee event, and instead has picked presidential biographer Ron Chernow to deliver remarks.

Chernow said in an announcement of his selection that he was asked by the WHCA to “make the case for the First Amendment” at the April 27 dinner, typically attended by lawmakers, journalists, and high-profile Hollywood performers.

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Trump, who won't be attending the WH Correspondents' Dinner this year, calls event "negative" and "boring." He will hold a rally that night instead. https://t.co/WyEpqH88PP pic.twitter.com/jMpObtZyOk

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