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Donald Trump: “I refused to do it the first four years because I felt the…”

Featuring: Donald Trump, Republican | President of the United States | National

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Extended interview: President Trump on White House Correspondents' Dinner

Published | Video Starts at 38:06

And when you cancel, you're sort of playing right into the hands of these nut jobs and they are really sick people. I don't want to have an event like that. It was a great event. That was an event. So I refused to do it the first four years because I felt the press treated me very unfairly. I had a right not to do it. I didn't do it. And the thing died. It was dying and I. Even though the press treats me pretty badly, it's hard to treat me. (38:06–38:11)

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Asserts that he did not attend the event for four years due to perceived unfair treatment by the press.

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