I’m not sure if this has been pointed out yet, but there was a leak a few days ago that said Trump was staging a fake PR blow up at the event. Like he’d discussed with his team that he was going to go on an unhinged rant and storm off like it was everyone else’s fault, because somehow he thinks that that makes him look like the adult in the room.

At the time I read speculation that this had been leaked by his own team in order to prevent it from happening, because it’s obviously such a stupid idea to everyone but him.

He skipped every other White House correspondents’ dinner, and he was only going to attend this one in order to stage a fake PR moment.

Obviously that’s not proof, but add it to the pile of circumstantial evidence.