Donald Trump is rushed from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner after suspected gunshots heard
Attendees of the dinner ducked under tables amid scenes of widespread confusion during the incident, our Washington correspondent reports from the event
A shooter has been taken into custody, Trump writes on Truth Social
Story is developing in real time, check the actual link for more details, images and videos.
EDIT:
I flipped to CSPAN; apparently Trump is going to be doing a press conference at the White House in ~30 minutes, all cabinet members are uninjured, as well as seemingly all other guests, and the Correspondents’ Dinner is going to be rescheduled within 30 days.
EDIT 2, from the ‘article’:
Still not clear what happened
published at 20:48
Bernd Debusmann Jr
White House reporter, reporting from dinner
We still have no official confirmation of what took place.
But Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich, a member of the White House Correspondent’s Association’s board, posted on X that they’ve been told that an individual attempted to pass through metal detectors with a gun.
President Trump, according to Heinrich, was held in a nearby room and wanted the dinner to continue, though he just posted on social media that law enforcement have asked him to leave.
EDIT 3:
Trump has posted a video and two pictures of the assailant to his Truth Social.
Video (Seems like a smartphone aimed at security camera monitor):
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116468650367386223
Pic 1:
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116468652052256305
Pic 2:
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116468652963767750
The man appears to have bum rushed through the metal detector area at a full sprint, but was stopped by a volley of shots from different security personnel.
… and apparently, according to Trump just now at the press conference, the guy shot one Secret Service agent, but he was wearing body armor, and is apparently not badly injured.
This can be seen in the video, the srcurity guy center frame appears to be shot in the lower abdomen, then quickly draws his weapon and begins firing at the now out of frame assailant, who sprinted past.
Trump says…: so it’s a fucking lie
Damn. Failed again. Third time is the charm, right?
Pretty sure this would be more like attempt 6.
EDIT:
Fuck, way more than 6.
he’s working up to Adolf Hitler’s number of 42 plots.
I hope that’s not where Adams got the number from.
42 is the answer to everything. I’m glad Hitler succeeded in what the others failed to do: kill Hitler. Just a bit late though. Doing it after getting rejected from art school would have been better.
“There is absolutely no place for politically motivated violence in the United States of America,” assistant US attorney Michael Friedman told Friedrich.
weird, maybe you guys should stop the administration from perpetrating a ton of politically motivated violence, then, instead of going after those merely reacting to it
(from the article of the Canadian-French (not french-canadian) woman)
The vid was hilarious. Someone leapt at the opportunity to bounce vance, otherwise everyone left trump up there long enough to absolutely drill him were a shooter so inclined
Staged, but fucken funny as hell
Subramanian says Erika Kirk, the widow of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk who was shot and killed at an event last year, was also whisked away and was in tears
Who gives a fuck.
She needs to honor her late husband and just accept that some deaths may be necessary to keep the spirit of the 2nd amendment intact.
Mysteriously, eye drops were found at her table.
I hope she lives the rest of her life in fear.
Just tell her they were pyrotechnics. she loves pyrotechnics at public events.
Well he’s definitely going to win one prize: us president with the highest number of assassination attempts.
I vote we call this award the “Nobel Rest in Peace” prize.
It’s easy to have the highest number of attempted assassinations when you repeatedly stage them.
I was downvoted for this. Another assassination before important voting…
Having seen other “rush the president away” situations, it’s always been the secret service dudes in black suits defending him. When did he start taking a military force in full tactical gear to dinner? It’s not like they were hiding behind the scenes. They just took a few side steps to form a human wall in front of the secret service.
Basically everywhere every President has ever been in at least the last ~30 years, they’re shadowed by the suited Secret Service, the obvious, visual security, and a or multiple tactical response teams, essentially SWAT teams, just in case something like this happens.
They were in fact hiding behind the scenes, ready to jump into action if needed.
That’s actually just normal Presidential security detail, what isn’t normal is when the President is moving about or planning public appearances so suddenly that there isn’t enough time to properly draft up a security plan and get people in place.
Thats a big part of why the Butler Penn Ear Zinger ended up happening:
Firstly, Trump wasn’t the President, so, less assigned security importance.
Secondly, the Trump Campaign has a history of stiffing the bill and not actually properly paying venues that he appears at, so a lot of event venues refuse to work with him.
Thirdly, Trump Campaign events are often announced and planned last minute, not enough time to actually draft up and implement a proper security plan, partially because of thing 2.
Finally, its well documented that the security coordination at Butler was a shit show. You had Secret Service, and a variety of local and regional police outfits, half of them didn’t know who was supposed to be where, doing what.
The ear shot was faked.
No, it wasn’t.
People died and were injured, from bullets, fired at Trump, who were behind him in the crowd.
The shooter had his head evacuated by countersnipers.
Trump just got lucky, turned his head at an angle where the bullet just barely knicked the top of his ear.
If you want a recent shooting that did not play out as advertised, you’re looking for the Kirk shooting, not Trump at Butler PA.
Yeah and also trump is covering and can grow his ear back so there is no sign of anything happen.
All they need is to convince some mentally ill person that he will is part of secret program to protect trump and get him there with blanks.
Then have someone shot into the crowd to add realism.
Oh and if you think they wouldn’t hurt innocent people you’ve been living under a rock for the past 10 years.
putin (biggest beneficiary of the current US foreign policy) murdered 300 people and injured over 1,000 (in apartment bombings) to get elected.
I truly do not know why or how so many people struggle with the concept of a shallow graze injury from a bullet, to an ear, that has an absolute ton of easily broken capillaries, especially a near 80 year old ear.
Its honestly entirely possible this shooting at the Press Dinner had some MK Ultra bs going on, the dude was psyop’d into it.
That wouldn’t surprise me at all.
It wouldn’t surprise me if they knew this guy was coming, that he planned to do this, and they just figured they could stop him, and it would somehow be advantageous for them to go with that.
… But I also don’t like to confidently state things I do not know to be true.
Produce evidence there was a shooter in the crowd at Butler, and I’ll look at it.
Other than that: Anybody can just say shit confidently.
This is typically called being a con artist.
Because those types of wounds take forever to heal in a geriatric.
His ear cartilage would almost certainly have been shattered by a bullet, but even if it wasn’t his ear would be purple for weeks.
Plus, there’s no way secret service would let him stand back up for his photo op. And Trump is such a scared baby that there’s no way he would have stood back up if there was an active shooter. This is the dude who hid in a bunker because there was a protest outside.
The door dash lady didn’t generate enough attention, so they are upping the dramatics.
that distraction was done to death, like he has his grocery store, mcdonalds, his garbage truck gaffes. and hes constant falling asleep like a child would when the parents confront them about a problem they caused isnt working anymore. even bringing out rfk jr and JD VANCE out of the woodwork dint help.
Door dash lady?
They flew in some old gal from Arkansas that looked like half chewed beef jerky who (if she actually was a door dash lady) was old enough that she should be retired but obviously couldn’t get by without having to work for door dash during her golden years so that she could gush over how wonderful it was that her tips weren’t getting taxed.
It came out that they’d used the same lady as a prop at some other political circle jerk in the months prior.
She’s an actor they pull up every now and then
Thought she was technically a lobbyist for doordash’s push for the "no tax on tips* scheme.
The shooting tonight at the Washington Hilton demonstrates the need to have a White House ballroom, President Trump tells reporters in the press briefing room.
So he’s taking this opportunity to whine about his ballroom. As one does. Perfectly normal. “An awful lot of Americans seem to want me dead, that’s why I need a party fortress!”
The WHCD is a private event, no affiliation with the government. It presumably would never happen at a White House ballroom.
*ballroom = bunker
Work on the bunker part got the green light, though.
On Thursday, the judge ruled that the Administration has to stop all aboveground work on the construction project until it receives Congressional approval. But his order permits the White House to continue construction underground, including on the military complex.
“HIGHEST APPROVAL EVER” also lowkey 3 assassination attempts. This asshole is living in the biggest bubble since the dot com boom.
Get ready for a week of all the most insufferable liberals you know wringing their hands about how it’s SO UNCOUTH to be disappointed he didn’t bite it, while all Democratic elected officials fall all over themselves to announce that “political violence has no place” in your country 🙄
Edit: oh, look, clown shit
I swear to Christ you people deserve whatever you get.
call me an uncouth motherfucker. i got so excited for a few seconds the first headline I saw…now im just disappointedly doomscrolling
Seeing as I don’t appear to have any Canadian ancestry…
Will do marriage for Canadian visa.
Am bi, not terribly picky, mostly just introverted.
Nah, sorry- we don’t want any cowards who flee their country rather than fight fascists.
Too crippled to fight, beyond being some kind of keyboard warrior.
No thanks. You’re fighting fascists or you’re tacitly supporting them. We don’t need you here.
Okey dokey.
The right has NORMALIZED political violence and blare out the pacifist bullshit to make it look unacceptable for anyone not them to do it. Protest and picket lines mean nothing if violence isn’t considered a step in the chain somewhere. The GQP have shown us this by demanding special protest zones around their events so people can’t just rush in or be heard.
None of the liberals I know are doing this.
Political leaders will because they don’t like the idea of one of their own being assissinated.
Get ready for a week of all the most insufferable liberals you know wringing their hands about how it’s SO UNCOUTH to be disappointed he didn’t bite it
Where do you see that?
CNN maybe, but they’re owned by a far right oligarch, just like every other media corporation.
I’m just remembering what social media looked like the last time this happened
what social media
The place full of boys, paid shills, and bad faith “as a liberal” accounts?
Why would anyone care what they say?
Or divide the democratic party by calling them “liberals”?
Like, at best even if they’re authentic, they’re lying…
Don’t let them call themselves that if they’re not
Quick edit:
Hell, for the ones on TV and in office, we can keep calling them neoliberals even if they don’t like it anymore
I’m old enough to remember libs complaining that a fascist got punched, and all the crying about not protesting correctly in 2020. In the Westwing-poisoned liberal mind, the best ideas always win in the market place of ideas, and any violence or even incivility is worse than being a literal nazi.
Those are neoliberals…
They keep changing the name they call themselves to make it look like it’s not the same group of fucks and their proteges…
No, this is inherent to liberalism; a core part of liberal philosophy is idealism; that history is a struggle of ideas as opposed to materialism.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/liberalism
You should read that, and after you understand that you’re wrong:
https://www.britannica.com/money/neoliberalism
That might get you angry at the right people.
Nah it’s different now. Everyone is let down.
Are all of these shooters going to Storm Trooper training academy or something?
My guess, and this is a total guess, would be that if someone tried to go through metal detectors with a gun, and then it alarmed… my guess is all the shots that were heard would have been security turning that person into swiss cheese, before they got off a shot.
… If they were even going for their gun.
We don’t have anything approaching that level of detail or info yet though.
Why would they just shoot the person instead of arresting lmao
this is america. cops kill.
America, Fuck Yeah!
🎶 Gunning again to save the mothafuckin day now 🎶
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People vastly overestimate their accuracy with a firearm. I want to say military doctrines/history generally show 100-300 meters as “the sweet spot” for a military rifle… with independent studies tending to put that at closer to 10-30 for an individual. Optics CAN help that (it stops being “line up your sight picture” and instead “pull the trigger when the dot is on the thing you want to kill”) except that… most people don’t have the time or resources to actually zero those properly. And this gets even worse for pistols.
This is why the vast majority (to the point I would almost say “all”) of political assassinations are either a full on military hit squad… or a lone gunman at point blank range. Lincoln, Reagan, Abe, even the dude what looked vaguely like Luigi. Which… there are a LOT of reasons people are so suspicious of the murder of JFK to this very day.
i have a laser dot on a small pistol. the bodyguard 380. all it does is show me how much i actually shake!
People vastly overestimate their accuracy with a firearm.
In a fluid situation, sure. Like the guy who allegedly hit Trump’s ear - the police was coming after him right that moment, the missed shot was clearly taken under enormous pressure.
But with a no acute pressure situation, like the Kennedy assassination, even I could surely reliably hit at 200m with a good rifle.
How about 200m, target is moving at 15 - 25 mph, both laterally and vertically across your FOV/sight picture, and they’re also moving away from you, constantly altering the range of the shot, and they are passing behind visual obstructions, as you are tracking them?
You can still find JFK Reloaded on some abandonware sites, go for the ‘high score’.
EDIT:
Also even if you go with the 100% official story of the Kennedy assasination, the building was in the process of being renovated when Oswald ‘took the shot’, so he’d have been sneaking in the weapon, setting up boxes to visually obscure his shooting position from the hallway/stairway, hoping he could make the shot before anyone happened upon the floor he was on, or near enough to it to block an escape route, etc.
Not exactly 0 pressure, the building was not empty of other people.
Double post but:
See EDIT 3 I’ve made to the main post.
Little bit off topic but… This was the first time Trump attended. Biden attended in 2024 as usual and Colin Jost made jokes. Last year they didn’t have any entertainer. Trump won and they immediately tried to appease him by breaking with the tradition and not making any jokes about the administration. This is US press in a nutshell. Access is the most important thing for them. They will be nice to a fascist just to be able to sit in the same room with him.
Damn, too bad. Maybe next time.
Wasn’t it leaked in a memo that Trump was planning some kind of “confrontation” at the dinner?
Is anyone stupid enough to believe this asshole?
That was my first reaction too. I usually try to stop myself from falling into conspiracy thinking, but in this case it’s hard to do when a few days prior the Internet has been full with an alleged memo with plans to stage something dramatic for the press at this specific event.
Can’t rule out a real attack but at this point I wouldn’t exactly say it’s the option with the highest probability for this government filled with tv personalities at record low popularity…
In this case it’s extremely transparent. His polling is in the dumpster, and they last time someone “shot at him” started a long reversal in that fortune.
also happened more than once, several assassination attempts with no followup, or investigation by the news in detail, and not vague, " caught this person". Also ms Lying cross leavitt mentioned there will be some of shooting later on.
Shooter was IDF
