The USA Today video below compiles grainy security camera footage of the shooter seeking to break into the White House Correspondents Dinner last night with the contemporaneous scene inside the dinner followed up by an excerpt of the indomitable President Trump’s subsequent late-night press conference back at the White House. The New York Post fills in the story behind the security camera footage here. We dodged another bullet last night.
Here is Getty footage of the stage at the time the bullets were flying.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance is escorted out by Secret Service followed by agents surrounding U.S. President Donald Trump after an incident at the annual White House Correspondents Association Dinner in Washington, DC. According to reports, President Donald Trump, along with… pic.twitter.com/gue1l8AbxY
— Getty Images News (@GettyImagesNews) April 26, 2026
Six Post reporters also cover what we know of the gunman apprehended last night here. President Trump assessed him to be a “whack job.” He may have been a “lone wolf” (as Trump put it) in his efforts last night, but there are a whole hell of a lot of them around. That much I can tell you.
In a separate story the Post reports that the aspiring assassin admits he was aiming to take out “administration officials.” A Secret Service agent was wounded in the gunfight with the shooter and saved, thank G-d, by a bulletproof vest.
Brittany Bernstein’s NR story quotes the president notes from his press conference. He said the dinner guests were “totally unified” by the evening’s events.
“This was an event dedicated to freedom of speech that was supposed to bring together members of both parties with members of the press and in a certain way it did,” he said.
He later added: “In light of this evening’s events, I ask that all Americans recommit with their hearts in resolving our differences peacefully. We have to resolve our differences.”
Well, that’s not going to happen. It might be sufficient unto the day if we renounced political violence as a means to an end in our republic.
