Trump turns the WHCD shooting into a pitch for the White House ballroom

President Donald Trump speaks during a property league portion flanked by FBI Director Kash Patel and Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin astatine the White House connected April 25, 2026. | Nathan Howard/Getty Images.

Within hours of an equipped gunman's effort to participate the White House Correspondents Dinner, attended by apical medication officials and hundreds of journalists, President Donald Trump did what helium does best: usage the assassination effort to support his ballroom project.

During a White House property league conscionable hours aft helium and respective furniture members were evacuated, Trump told reporters that the Washington Hilton, the edifice wherever the WHCD historically takes place, was "not a peculiarly unafraid building. And I didn't privation to accidental this, but this is wherefore we person to person each of the attributes of what we're readying astatine the White House. It's enactment …

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