After a suspect, believed to be targeting the President, who has already faced two previous assassination attempts, opened fire and was apprehended at the event’s security barricades at the Washington Hilton, Trump posted on his social media platform, Truth Social: “I have recommended that we ‘LET THE SHOW GO ON’ but, will entirely be guided by Law Enforcement. They will make a decision shortly. Regardless of that decision, the evening will be much different than planned, and we’ll just, plain, have to do it again.”
In a briefing later that evening to reporters, some still in their dinner attire, Trump again insisted: “We’re going to do it again.”
“I don’t want to see it be canceled,” Trump reiterated to 60 Minutes on Sunday. “I don’t want to have a crazy person—I think it’s really bad for a crazy person to be able to cancel something like this.”
Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich, the WHCA’s treasurer and incoming President, told her network that the organization has not yet “had a moment to sort of coalesce around” how they might carry out the President’s request.
Jiang, speaking to Face the Nation on Sunday, said that Trump had called her into his holding room after the Hilton shooting to explain that he “realized how important that night was.” Jiang added: “He told me that we were not going to be deterred.”
Past Presidents who have attended have spoken at such dinners about the importance of a free press. The organization has also historically invited entertainers to the dinner, and this year, they invited mentalist Oz Pearlman.
Questions about security
Restaging the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in such a short timeframe would be an immense logistical challenge, even without newfound security concerns. But after the shooting, questions have grown about what went wrong.
The House Oversight Committee has since requested a briefing from the U.S. Secret Service over the incident.
The Washington Post reported, citing unnamed officials, that despite the presence of the President, Vice President J.D. Vance, and other high-ranking Administration officials, the dinner was not given top security status that other similar events would have and that would have allowed access to greater security resources.“While this was extraordinarily dangerous and put a lot of lives at risk, and there’s no doubt that that’s something we’re going to have to learn from over the next couple weeks,” acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Meet the Press on Sunday, “the system worked.”
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