{"id":84463,"date":"2026-04-26T03:18:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T03:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/trump-reveals-shocking-reaction-to-whcd-shooting-a-dangerous-profession\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T03:18:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T03:18:22","slug":"trump-reveals-shocking-reaction-to-whcd-shooting-a-dangerous-profession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/trump-reveals-shocking-reaction-to-whcd-shooting-a-dangerous-profession\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Reveals “Shocking” Reaction To WHCD Shooting, “A Dangerous Profession”"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s always shocking when something like this happens,\u201d Donald Trump said tonight about the shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner. \u201cIt was either a tray or a bullet,\u201d he said he heard before agents hustled him to safety. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen you are impactful they go after you, when you are not impactful they leave you alone,\u201d POTUS said of the violence Saturday and previous assassination\u00a0 attempts against him over the years. \u201cIt\u2019s a dangerous profession.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI like not to think about it,\u201d Trump added. \u201cI\u2019m not a basket case.\u201d To that, as he indicated online earlier, Trump told the assembled well heeled media that he \u201cfought like hell to stay\u201d at the WHCD, but Secret Service insisted he had to get back to the White House. At the same time, with all that went down, Trump did seem more on edge than usual tonight and more circumspect at the same time even as he went through a litany of his and his administration\u2019s initiatives and policies over the past year.<\/p>\n

\n\tPraising law enforcement, Trump had released a photo of the man he later tonight called a \u201clone wolf\u201d and \u201cnutjob\u201d before taking the podium in the Briefing Room Saturday.<\/p>\n

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\n\tFlanked by tuxedo wearing VP JD Vance, FBI Director Kash Patel, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin and Acting Attorney Geneal Todd Blanche back at the White House, Trump started his remarks with a \u201cthat was very unexpected.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe had a long way to go,\u201d Trump added of the suspected shooter actually getting to him personally. A 30-year-old man from California is in custody, law enforcement say. \u201cHe wasn\u2019t anywhere near to breach the doors of the ballroom.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAttending the WHCD for the first time as POTUS, the incident in what Trump called a \u201cvery secure room\u201d occurred just minutes after the Republican and the First Lady arrived in the Washington Hilton ballroom. Trump, Melania Trump, Vance and others were whisked off the stage as guest dropped to hide under tables in the chaos.<\/p>\n

\n\tStill how the suspect got so close to the ballroom that had the President, VP, Speaker of the House and many other top members of the line of succession in it remains a question. Individuals at the WHCD tell Deadline that security around the hotel was intense. Yet, it seems that at least one individual sought to get through a metal detectors with a gun on his person. CNN\u2019s Wolf Blizter happened to be outside the ballroom and witnessed shots being fired. Though the iconic anchor was quickly moved to a Men\u2019s Room by Secret Service, one protective vest wearing member of the agency was shot.<\/p>\n

\n\tTonight Trump, who joked that he would have to give a \u201cboring\u201d WHCD speech once the event is rescheduled in the next month, spoke of the injured agent. \u201cOne officer was shot, but saved by the fact that he was wearing a obviously a very good bulletproof vest,\u201d Trump said. \u201cHe was shot from very close distance with a very powerful gun, and the vest did the job. I just spoke to the officer, and he\u2019s doing great. He\u2019s great shape. He is in very high spirits, and we told him we love him and respect him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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\u201cIt\u2019s always shocking when something like this happens,\u201d Donald Trump said tonight about the shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner. \u201cIt was either a tray or a bullet,\u201d he said he heard before agents hustled him to safety. \u201cWhen you are impactful they go after you, when you are not impactful they leave you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_daextam_enable_autolinks":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/trump-white-house-getty.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}