There was a shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last night

There was a shooter at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last night. Donald Trump was there, so was Melania Trump, JD Vance, Stephen Miller, FBI Director Kash Patel, Robert Kennedy Jr. and half of Trump’s cabinet. There are so many weird parts about this, but let’s stick with some facts. Trump skipped the WHCD last year, but he and his people made a HUGE deal about his attendance this year. In an interview, Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt even promised a “shots fired” moment for the evening just minutes before shots rang out. Reportedly, the shooter is in custody.

You would think that with all of the advance hype about Trump’s presence at this year’s WHCD, Secret Service would be all over it, and there would be multiple checkpoints and everyone would need two forms of ID? Apparently not. These days, the Secret Service does vibes-based security. One video even shows the painfully slow reaction time of the SS even after you can hear the shots off-camera. The SS also pulled Vance off the dais before they could drag Trump off, and Trump also fell as he was being dragged (see tweet video below).

After Trump was taken off the dais, the SS kept him in the building, which is also bizarre – from what I know of SS protocol, they should have immediately put him in the Beast, the armored limo, and taken him to either the White House or an undisclosed location. Trump eventually made it back to the White House and he gave a press conference in which he argued that this kind of situation proves why he needs to build his big, beautiful ballroom. I’m not joking. The line about the ballroom was parroted by MAGA influencers online too. This whole thing is crazy as hell.

Photos courtesy of Backgrid.

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  1. Jan says:
    April 26, 2026 at 8:18 am

    2 things maybe the SS is just over trump – can’t be fun protecting a dumb POS. HAHAHAHAHAHA at him falling. I will watch that over and over and over again!

  2. Snuffles says:
    April 26, 2026 at 8:24 am

    25 years ago I crashed this dinner twice. Not the ballroom part, but the hotel. ZERO security. I was able to walk in and out of the various conference rooms that were holding media outlet parties and meet celebrities.

    And I was even able to get into the ballroom after the President left. No one tried to stop me. Most people had cleared out by then but I got to meet Warren Beatty and Annette Benning!

    Anyhoo, I’m not surprised security at the hotel was shit.

  3. StellainNH says:
    April 26, 2026 at 8:27 am

    With the maggots tweeting about the need for the ballroom, is this a false flag? I can see this administration doing something like this to push their agenda.

  4. Aimee says:
    April 26, 2026 at 8:28 am

    I don’t feel bad that these people were terrorized for a few minutes or a few seconds because now they know how the American people feel. Every freaking day!!!

  5. Mireille says:
    April 26, 2026 at 8:31 am

    Did anyone see the presser afterwards? Is it me or was Kash Patel SOBER for the first time since he became the head joke of the FBI?

  6. Miranda says:
    April 26, 2026 at 8:35 am

    NOPE. Not buying it. He wants to rescue his catastrophically low approval rating and demonstrate the “need” for the ludicrously expensive, tacky-ass ballroom. Unfortunately for him, no one gave a shit about the previous “attempts”, and he’s even more unpopular now.

    Also, what’s the over/under on him sharting when he fell?

  7. maisie says:
    April 26, 2026 at 8:39 am

    Expect to see more of these as Trump’s popularity circles the drain.

    Why is it that my first thought was “false flag op”?

    Isn’t Keystone Ka$h in charge of the Secret Service? And what was up with Leavitt saying “shots will be fired” as she walked the carpet?

  8. duchess of hazard says:
    April 26, 2026 at 8:42 am

    The third flag in what will be a parade of false flags, from his campaign to get back into the White House to now.

  9. Hypocrisy says:
    April 26, 2026 at 8:48 am

    Weird how this was his first ever time attending.. and his approval numbers are falling so low that they are the lowest ever for a sitting president and strange how this seems to happen a lot with this man..looks like the joke was on the public not a roast of the White House.

  10. Brassy Rebel says:
    April 26, 2026 at 8:49 am

    My favorite part of this is how the media people inside the ballroom were whining about folks on social media not taking it seriously even though they are traumatized! So sad. We are more traumatized by you stenographers and sycophants shoving this monster down our throats for the last ten years just so you could be entertained by his antics. Sorry, not sorry 😔.

  11. Georgia Garrett says:
    April 26, 2026 at 8:54 am

    I agree completely with Miranda’s comment above. So obviously faked to boost his approval numbers (which, to me, are still way too high). SS or Patel or someone probably bet on it on Kalshi as well. This orange turd ruins EVerything

  12. Eva says:
    April 26, 2026 at 9:00 am

    Personally, I don’t believe it was real, just as I don’t believe the previous incident was real.

  13. Mtl.ex.pat says:
    April 26, 2026 at 9:08 am

    To quote Elaine from Seinfeld “Fake, fake, fake, fake.”

  14. Dee(2) says:
    April 26, 2026 at 9:11 am

    I didn’t watch the presser, because I just can’t with him anymore. He literally mentioned this is why he needs his ballroom? Why on Earth with the first thing that you would mention after someone attempted to take your life, and directly harmed dozens of journalists in an established event, be about so I need this extension on my house?

    Everything is a grift to him, and he is always fashioned himself to be an actor which is why he’s so into WWE and why he loved making cameos in movies. I am far from being a conspiracy theorist, but it’s getting kind of hard to buy that for some reason this president has had three assassination attempts in two years and the first Black president had zero. It’s terrible, but I have zero trust in anything that this administration says, from the FBI (who’s heads job looks increasingly precarious daily), to a President with historical low approval ratings, and a Secret Service that apparently can protect all the former presidents just fine.