The White House has officially announced that President Donald Trump will not be attending the NAACP Convention this weekend in Baltimore, Maryland.

This is not the first time Trump has skipped out on a NAACP Convention. Trump — at the time a presidential candidate — also missed the NAACP Convention held last July in Cincinnati, despite attending the Republican National Convention being held nearby in Cleveland.

The NAACP is the oldest civil rights group in the United States, and it has become something of a tradition for those holding the nation's highest office to attend the convention.

In fact, every president and almost every presidential candidate, both Republican and Democrat, has attended the NAACP Convention since Ronald Reagan was in office.

NAACP Board Chairman Leon Russell to the announcement by saying, “We get the message loud and clear. The president’s decision today underscores the harsh fact: we have lost — we’ve lost the will of the current administration to listen to issues facing the black community.”

You may remember that while running for president, President Trump pitched himself to black voters by saying, "You're living in poverty. Your schools are no good. You have no jobs. 58 percent of your youth is unemployed. What the hell do you have to lose?"

At the very least, our president showing face at the NAACP Convention, it would seem.

Left to its own devices, Twitter did its best to process the news:

As the NAACP Convention is yearly, President Trump will have another chance to stop by next year.

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