The Trump administration has had quite a few run-ins with NABJ journalist of the year April Ryan.

The president once asked if the Congressional Black Congress were “friends of yours,” and Ryan recently made the internet stand up and applaud when she clapped back at Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders' demand that reporters tell her what they were thankful for.

That clap back escalated on Twitter, when Sanders posted a strange, slightly fuzzy picture of a pie against a white background. Sanders said she made it; Ryan and many other Twitter users asked for a little proof.

Now, the Washington Post reports that Ryan has not been invited to the White House Christmas party for members of the news media.

Ryan, a veteran journalist, has been invited to every one of the 20 years she has spent covering the White House, except for this time.

She told the Post, “I don’t think I was overlooked. I think they don’t like me. For whatever reason, they have disdain for me.” 

The “they” there being the Trump administration.

In a response reminiscent of the president of the Navajo Nation to Trump’s “Pocahontas” slur, Ryan has decided to stay above the fray. “He has the right to invite whoever he wants. He chose not to invite me. I’m good.”

CNN, for whom Ryan works, is not good, however.

The network was invited to the party, but after Trump criticized them yet again on Twitter, calling them “a major source of (fake) news” that represents “our nation to the world very poorly,” the network said it isn’t coming.

“In light of the president’s continued attacks on freedom of the press and CNN, we do not feel it is appropriate to celebrate with him as his invited guests,” a CNN spokesperson said.

The president has tweeted many, many attacks on CNN in the past, including a controversial meme showing CNN being run over by a train. This was met with condemnation, in part because the president tweeted it right after Heather Heyer was run over and killed at Charlottesville.

Another controversial attack came earlier this year, when the Trump campaign released an ad approved by the president that called Ryan, CNN and other journalists “enemies” of the president.

CNN said that it will treat the party as a news story, and will cover it “if news warrants.”

Huckabee Sanders, not missing a trick, tweeted the following in response to the news:

 

It isn’t clear if other networks will follow CNN’s lead and boycott the event. The event will be held this Friday at 2 p.m.

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