{"id":210564,"date":"2026-04-26T21:17:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T21:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/210564\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T21:17:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T21:17:19","slug":"a-timeline-of-the-shooting-at-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/210564\/","title":{"rendered":"A Timeline of the Shooting at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"g-text g-body-text svelte-kxgec5 g-text_last\">President Trump was rushed from a stage after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2026\/04\/26\/us\/correspondents-dinner-shooting-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gunshots were fired at the White House correspondents\u2019 dinner<\/a> inside a Washington hotel on Saturday. The president was unharmed, and the suspect was apprehended before he could enter the ballroom where the dinner was being held.<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text g-body-text svelte-kxgec5 g-text_last\">Here is a timeline of how the shooting unfolded:<\/p>\n<p class=\"timestamp svelte-1lfh83o\">8:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p> Mr. Trump enters the ballroom     <\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text g-body-text svelte-kxgec5 g-text_last\">The event took place in the International Ballroom of the Washington Hilton, on the concourse level two floors below the hotel\u2019s main entrance and lobby. Mr. Trump; the first lady, Melania Trump; and Vice President JD Vance entered the ballroom at 8:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text g-body-text svelte-kxgec5 g-text_last\">Many members of Mr. Trump\u2019s cabinet and hundreds of journalists and guests were also in attendance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text g-body-text svelte-kxgec5 g-text_last\">Gunfire was heard just after 8:30 p.m. outside the ballroom, and within seconds, Mr. Trump was rushed from the stage and out of the room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-wrapper_meta g-text-align-left svelte-fkyd84\" style=\"--g-caption-display:inline;--g-caption-margin-bottom:0;\">  Source: Washington Hilton (floor plan); analysis of verified photos and videos. The New York Times<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text g-body-text svelte-kxgec5 g-text_last\">Many guests took cover on the ground as security agents escorted members of Mr. Trump\u2019s cabinet from the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text g-body-text svelte-kxgec5 g-text_last\">Security video posted by Mr. Trump on Truth Social shows the suspect running through the foyer of the terrace level, which is one floor beneath the lobby and one floor above the ballroom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"timestamp svelte-1lfh83o\">9:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p> Mr. Trump leaves the hotel      <\/p>\n<p class=\"g-wrapper_meta g-text-align-left svelte-fkyd84\" style=\"--g-caption-display:inline;--g-caption-margin-bottom:0;\">  Source: Satellite image by Planet Labs. The New York Times<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text g-body-text svelte-kxgec5 g-text_last\">Mr. Trump left the hotel around 9:45 p.m. and arrived back at the White House minutes before 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"timestamp svelte-1lfh83o\">10:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p> Mr. Trump delivers news conference     <\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text g-body-text svelte-kxgec5 g-text_last\">Mr. Trump said he had \u201cfought like hell\u201d to remain at the event but that he had been told by security agents that he had to leave. He said the episode underscored <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/26\/us\/politics\/trump-white-house-ballroom-dinner-shooting.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">why the White House needed its own ballroom<\/a> with heightened security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump was rushed from a stage after gunshots were fired at the White House correspondents\u2019 dinner inside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[1593,83252,1452,9,24,63,122,124,123,83251,1069,1876,8093,83239],"class_list":{"0":"post-210564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-allen","9":"tag-cole-tomas","10":"tag-donald-j","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-queens","15":"tag-queens-headlines","16":"tag-queens-news","17":"tag-security-and-warning-systems","18":"tag-trump","19":"tag-united-states-politics-and-government","20":"tag-washington-dc","21":"tag-white-house-correspondents-assn"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}