WASHINGTON, April 16 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump's re-election campaign announced Tuesday that the president will hold a rally in state of Wisconsin for April 27.

That means Trump would skip this year's White House Correspondents' Association dinner, the third time since he took office in early 2017.

The rally will be held in Green Bay, an industrial city of the Midwestern state, according to Trump's campaign.

U.S. presidents traditionally attend the White House Correspondents' Association annual dinner, but Trump signaled earlier this month that he would not attend the event.

"The dinner is so boring and so negative that we're going to hold a very positive rally instead," Trump said.

The rally will be the eighteenth that Trump has held in Wisconsin and the third in Green Bay since he first began his presidential race in June, 2015.

Trump beat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, in Wisconsin by under 23,000 votes.