{"id":417833,"date":"2026-04-26T02:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T02:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/417833\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T02:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T02:53:08","slug":"trump-safe-after-evacuation-from-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/417833\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump ‘safe’ after evacuation from event"},"content":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump has said a “shooter has been apprehended” after he and First Lady Melania Trump were rushed out of the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner by Secret Service agents.<\/p>\n

The Secret Service said Mr Trump and his wife “are safe” following their evacuation in response to a loud, unidentified noise.<\/p>\n

It added one individual was in custody and the incident took place near the main screening area for the event.<\/p>\n

Other Trump \u200cadministration \u2060officials attending the dinner were also evacuated after a loud commotion and noise near the hotel ballroom where the dinner was \u200cbeing held.<\/p>\n

At a press conference in the White House press briefing room, the president said a man armed with multiple weapons and \u200cwearing \u2060a bulletproof vest charged a security checkpoint at \u200cthe event.<\/p>\n

He said one officer was shot but “is in great shape”.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump said the suspect was “totally subdued” by officers, calling him a “would-be assassin”.<\/p>\n

Many of the 2,600 attendees took \u2060cover while waiters fled \u200cto the front of the dining hall.<\/p>\n

Tactical teams with guns drawn took position on the stage where Mr Trump had been sitting during dinner.<\/p>\n

Police also swarmed the Washington Hilton Hotel where the event was taking place, and helicopters hovered overhead.<\/p>\n

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\nUS President Donald Trump and Melania Trump at the White House correspondents’ dinner<\/p>\n

In a post on social media, Mr Trump said: “Secret Service and law enforcement did a fantastic job.<\/p>\n

“They acted quickly and bravely.”<\/p>\n

The incident erupted after the welcoming speech and during dinner, before Mr Trump was due to speak.<\/p>\n

A cabinet official, Mehmet Oz, said “shots fired upstairs” as he was rushed out by security.<\/p>\n

President Trump was the target of an assassination attempt during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania in 2024.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump was grazed on his right ear when a 20-year-old gunman opened fire from a nearby rooftop while the Republican presidential candidate was holding a campaign rally in Butler on 13 July.<\/p>\n

One person in the audience was killed and the gunman, Thomas Crooks, was shot dead by a Secret Service sniper.<\/p>\n

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\nUS President Donald Trump was the target of an assassination attempt in 2024<\/p>\n

A few months later, another man was arrested after a Secret Service agent saw the barrel of a rifle poking from the bushes on the perimeter of the West Palm Beach golf course where Mr Trump was playing a round.<\/p>\n

The Washington Hilton where the gala was taking place was the site where Republican President Ronald Reagan was shot by a would-be assassin in 1981.<\/p>\n

President Trump was attending the correspondents’ dinner for the first time while in office.<\/p>\n

The White House Correspondents’ Association invited Mr Trump this year despite his repeated attacks on the media.<\/p>\n

The move had drawn backlash across newsrooms, and hundreds of journalists signed an open letter asking attendees to call out Mr Trump’s press restrictions.<\/p>\n

Unlike all other presidents from the past 100 years, Mr Trump has never attended the White House Correspondents’ Dinner while in office – until now.<\/p>\n

The “Nerd Prom” as attendees dub it brings together hundreds of Washington journalists and media executives to raise funds for scholarships and awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump has said a “shooter has been apprehended” after he and First Lady Melania Trump…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-417833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}