{"id":606813,"date":"2026-04-26T04:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T04:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/606813\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T04:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T04:02:09","slug":"how-gunfire-threw-trumps-glitzy-washington-hilton-dinner-into-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/606813\/","title":{"rendered":"How gunfire threw Trump\u2019s glitzy Washington Hilton dinner into chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It was meant to be a glitzy Saturday night at a Washington ballroom featuring President Donald Trump, but the glamour was shattered by gunshots that left guests diving to the floor and the US leader bundled out by security personnel.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump was seated on the dais at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association\u2019s annual dinner \u2013 the first time he is attending as president \u2013 when loud bangs disrupted the revelry and caused him and others on stage to look up in alarm.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Video captured by news outlets attending the event showed a chaotic scene unfolding.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Moments after what sounded like gunshots, cries of \u201cStay down!\u201d and \u201cGet down!\u201d were heard while guests, including correspondents, officials in the Trump administration and some members of his cabinet took cover.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Amid the chaos, the president was quickly surrounded by US Secret Service personnel, their weapons drawn, and they quickly rushed Trump off the stage and through a back curtain as the crowd crouched in shock.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner in Washington. Photo: EPA\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a28cb031-4d78-4a0e-b8e2-f8b8c8f04d69_1126e908.jpg\" title=\"US President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner in Washington. Photo: EPA\"\/>US President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner in Washington. Photo: EPA<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The big band music stopped and people in ball gowns and tuxedos turned quiet as agents swarmed around tables and over guests on the floor of the massive ballroom of the Washington Hilton, the very hotel where president Ronald Reagan survived an assassination attempt 45 years earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was meant to be a glitzy Saturday night at a Washington ballroom featuring President Donald Trump, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,1062,12,263739,88495,28030,57532,3,263741,17570,36214,21,19,22,20,25,222936,24,2002,263740,3123,262612],"class_list":{"0":"post-606813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-health-and-human-services-secretary-robert-f-kennedy-jnr","12":"tag-hilton","13":"tag-john-f-kennedy","14":"tag-mehmet-oz","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-one-america-news","17":"tag-ronald-reagan","18":"tag-secret-service","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-us-secret-service","25":"tag-usa","26":"tag-washington","27":"tag-washington-hilton","28":"tag-white-house","29":"tag-white-house-correspondents-association"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}