President Trump will not attend the upcoming annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
“My understanding is that invitation has been declined this year,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said during a press briefing Wednesday afternoon.
The convention begins Saturday in Baltimore, and prior Republican and Democratic presidents have attended the annual meetings. The NAACP is the oldest civil rights organization in the United States.
Trump also declined to speak at last year’s NAACP convention because it coincided with the the Republican National Convention.
The NAACP did not reply to a request for comment from the Washington Examiner.
