...and there's no tv camera there, did it really happen?

"Sadly for Mr. Trump, almost none of this made it onto the television networks he watches so closely. The Chinese state visit has collided with the consequences of the decision he made in a fit of pique last Friday to ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House campus. A judge ordered the Trump administration to let the banned reporters back Thursday, but the TV networks are still refusing to take Mr. Trump’s carnival live. Until his administration formally agrees to let CNN back into the White House TV pool rotation, he is not going to see those blinking red lights he loves so much.

Shortly before the dinner began, he posted one of his diatribes on his website.

CNN and MS NOW were “fake,” he wrote, because they wouldn’t cover “one of the Biggest and Most Beautiful Events to take place in many years, the arrival at the White House of the Highly Respected President of China, Xi Jinping, and his beautiful wife, Madam Peng."

The president continued: “The event was magnificent — Actually made for Television but, because they’re Fake News, and because they knew how good it would be, they didn’t want credit to be given to ‘TRUMP,’ they refused to be there. That’s why they have such poor Ratings.”

He concluded: “Tonight’s State Dinner at the White House, for President Xi, will be spectacular! The Media will be in attendance.”

Yes, the White House complex was crawling with journalists Thursday evening as Mr. Xi pulled up to the front door of the residence. But, in the spirit of solidarity with those targeted by Mr. Trump’s ban, some just ignored the spectacle." —New York Times