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- ‘I Was Gonna Really Rip It!’ Trump Promises New WHCA Address Will Be ‘Spee...
President Donald Trump revealed that he “was gonna really rip it” during his White House Correspondents’ Dinner speech during a Sunday morning interview with Fox’s Jacqui Heinrich before promising he would now deliver a “speech of love” at the rescheduled event, which was interrupted on Saturday by a gunman. Trump’s comments came after Heinrich said, “I was taken by your response immediately after it happened. You said we’re going to continue the night, we’re not going to let this person derail our plans for the evening,” and asked: “Had you been told, very quickly, that there was no additional threat in the room? Is that why you felt comfortable proceeding if Secret Service allowed that to happen?” The president replied: Well, I hated a guy like this, a sick, bad person, I hated somebody like that changing the course of our country. You know, where you’d have all of these people, important people, not important people, All of these people gathered, record crowd. We had a record crowd last night. And you and the people that put it on did a fantastic job, really. But that all of these people would have to leave, you know, it’s just for what? For one nut, for one guy that is really, I mean, look, he’s very, he’s a very disturbed person. So I really wanted to go and I really wanted to, but the protocol was no. And you know, once those doors were open, that room was sealed. And once the doors were opened, because people were pouring in, and they were police and they were Secret Service, and they poured in a lot of them. But once those doors are open, it breaks the seal. And when they explained it, you know, maybe it’s possible somebody, if it were more than one person, somebody could have come in. But I really wanted to do it that night, even if we stayed late into the night. But we did the right thing. And we came back to the White House, we did a news conference and explained what happened. And now we’re doing it a little bit more by talking to you. But we did the right thing. Now, I hope that we can have it within a short period of time, whether it’s 30 days or a little less, a little more. But I hope we can do… [TheTopNews] Read More.43 mins ago - ‘This Was a Failure’: Fox’s Lawrence Jones Torches Secret Service Over Sho...Fox News’ Lawrence Jones sounded off on the Secret Service on Sunday morning, hours after a gunman opened fire inside of the same hotel where President Donald Trump, a number of other high-profile federal officials, and much of the Washington, D.C. press corps was gathered for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday. After fielding a question about whether Trump’s proposed White House Ballroom might be a boon to security, Jones replied: I mean, sure, yeah, we need to speed up the ballroom, but we need t speed up the security apparatus and the criticism of that, right? The scrutiny of that. And this is, I say this as someone that has a lot of buddies in the Secret Service, FBI, and you know, in the moment, the reaction is always a lion’s heart. You see them rushing toward danger. But this is a failure of leadership here. The same thing continues to happen over and over again. Look, you know, we always talk about this, and the way they look at it is mission success is that the principal, being the president of the United States is safe and no injury has been inflicted on him. But the problem with that is, you know, we lost an American, Corey [Comperatore], as a result of a casualty of them just worried about the principal. That is the job, but we’re talking about there was multiple Cabinet members there, their wives there, the speaker of the House, obviously the president and the vice president there, and it was kind of disjointed. You know, when I heard the gunshots that were there –and it was very clear, and I looked at one of our colleagues who was in the service, and we were both sure there was a gunshot, right — and then you see the barrage of servicemen and women rushing down the aisleway, because one thing that is not talked about is because when the president is there, it’s kind of disjointed when you have different Cabinet members there. And so although they were trying to eliminate the threat, all of those guys running down the aisle were trying to go to their respective Cabinet members because it’s inside of the ballroom, most of the people there, with the exception of one or two agents assigned to different Cabinet member, whereas most of the time they have, you… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- Correspondents’ Dinner Shooter Used ‘Anti-Trump and Anti-Trump Rhetoric’: ...
LEFT: (Photo by Andrew Leyden/NurPhoto via AP) RIGHT: (Screenshot via @realDonaldTrump) Cole Tomas Allen, the California man authorities have detained for opening fire inside of the Washington, D.C. hotel where the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was being held on Saturday evening, used “anti-Trump and anti-Christian rhetoric” on social media, according to CBS News’ Jennifer Jacobs. “The suspect’s writings under review by investigators stated he wanted to specifically target administration officials, a senior U.S. official told CBS News. Authorities found anti-Trump and anti-Christian rhetoric on the suspect’s social media accounts, the official said,” reported Jacobs. “Allen sent some of his writings to members of his family before the attempted attack on Saturday, and one of them alerted police about the writings. The writings sent to family members apparently did not specifically mention the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.” Family members told investigators that Allen made frequent references to a plan to do “something” and practiced with his firearms at a shooting range. The senior official who spoke to Jacobs “said Allen was part of a group called ‘The Wide Awakes’ and attended a ‘No Kings’ protest in California.” Authorities have indicated that they have no evidence yet that anyone else was involved in Saturday’s attack. Trump called Allen a “lone wolf” during a Saturday evening press conference.The post Correspondents’ Dinner Shooter Used ‘Anti-Trump and Anti-Trump Rhetoric’: Report first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Trump Promotes ‘Large, Safe, and Secure’ Ballroom After Shooting
(Photo by Andrew Leyden/NurPhoto via AP) President Donald Trump renewed his call for the hasty construction of his proposed White House Ballroom on Sunday morning, just hours after a shooting interrupted the White House Correspondents’ Dinner at the Washington Hilton Hotel the previous evening. “What happened last night is exactly the reason that our great Military, Secret Service, Law Enforcement and, for different reasons, every President for the last 150 years, have been DEMANDING that a large, safe, and secure Ballroom be built ON THE GROUNDS OF THE WHITE HOUSE,” wrote Trump in a post on Truth Social. “This event would never have happened with the Militarily Top Secret Ballroom currently under construction at the White House. It cannot be built fast enough! While beautiful, it has every highest level security feature there is plus, there are no rooms sitting on top for unsecured people to pour in, and is inside the gates of the most secure building in the World, The White House. The ridiculous Ballroom lawsuit, brought by a woman walking her dog, who has absolutely No Standing to bring such a suit, must be dropped, immediately. Nothing should be allowed to interfere with with its construction, which is on budget and substantially ahead of schedule!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter.” The Trump administration demolished the East Wing of the White House in October to make room for the ballroom, a pet project of the president’s that has become an unlikely culture war battle. District Judge Richard Leon ordered the administration to pause work on the ballroom last month, demanding it seek and receive “express authorization from Congress” before proceeding, as “no statute comes close to giving the President the authority he claims to have.”The post Trump Promotes ‘Large, Safe, and Secure’ Ballroom After Shooting first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - ‘Are You Going to Inflame?’ Fox’s Lawrence Jones Demands Press Shape Up Af...] Fox News’ Lawrence Jones addressed his peers in the political press over their coverage of President Donald Trump on Sunday morning, hours after the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner the previous evening After offering some unsparing criticism of those responsible for security at the event, Jones moved on to admonishing the Fourth Estate: I talked to the president last night on my way home to New York, and again, a lion in his heart, extremely gracious, and as he — and you know, if I was in this situation and I was the principal here, I would not have been as kind. I will say this, as I’m wrapping up, guys, you know, the media, I understand the president said this was a moment of unity because we were all in the same room at one time. And they got to see what this family goes through on a day-to-day basis, which is a high level of threat. But they were not the target. This was not an attack on the press. They were gunning for one person. And the question is, there’s a moment of unity right now, but what’s going to happen Monday morning? Are you going to inflame? Are you gonna put the same radicals on your program that have been inflaming this rhetoric against one side? So I look forward to seeing the coverage on Monday morning. Fox & Friends Weekend host Griff Jenkins concurred. “And that’s a great point, Lawrence, and Brian [Kilmeade], to your point about political violence, you know, Lawrence is referring to Hasan Piker, that’s platformed by a New York Times platform saying that it’s okay for social murder to kill a CEO of a healthcare company and many other things,” mused Jenkins. “But you know, we’ve seen this morning finally one Democrat member of Congress, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, she tweeted out simply, ‘Please stop trying to murder the president.’ And it dawns on us because we saw lots of statements last night from people like Hakeem Jeffries and others that condemned political violence, but didn’t say exactly what Lawrence is talking about, which is the elephant in the room, which is this attempt to kill Donald Trump, the president. And so you wonder, is this rise in political violence only going to solved if we are all honest about the threat that has been percolating, and… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- PBS Reporter Complains About Pete Hegseth Not Taking Questions While Being Rushe...
(Screenshot via @ElizLanders on X) PBS’s Liz Landers raised eyebrows by complaining about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s unwillingness to take questions as he was rushed out of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night. The evening’s festivities were interrupted when a gunman, identified as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen of California, opened fire outside of the Washington Hilton Hotel’s ballroom where President Donald Trump, members of his Cabinet, and much of the D.C. press corps was gathered. In a tweet fired off shortly after the incident, Landers shared a video of “Hegseth moving through hallway back near the stage of the correspondent’s dinner,” adding that “he did not take questions from the press.” In it, a female reporter’s voice can be heard asking, “Mr. Secretary, is the president going back to the dinner?” as Hegseth is hurriedly ushered toward a door by his security detail. Hegseth moving through hallway back near the stage of the correspondent’s dinner – did not take questions from press. pic.twitter.com/DFLQrKAW8L — Liz Landers (@ElizLanders) April 26, 2026 Other social media users, especially on the right, were critical of Landers’s framing. “This is a real post from PBS. Journalism is dead. Why is PBS still operating? I thought we DOGE’d them a long time ago?” mused RedState’s Buzz Patterson. This is a real post from PBS. Journalism is dead. Why is PBS still operating? I thought we DOGE’d them a long time ago? https://t.co/KI48RHMypY — Buzz Patterson (@BuzzPatterson) April 26, 2026 “So this PBS reporter is apparently Jim Acosta’s girlfriend, and her complaining that Hegseth ‘did not take questions’ during an active evacuation after a shooting makes so much more sense,” concurred one of Patterson’s colleagues. So this PBS reporter is apparently Jim Acosta’s girlfriend, and her complaining that Hegseth “did not take questions” during an active evacuation after a shooting makes so much more sense. https://t.co/UTp87WHLyX — Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) April 26, 2026 “Jim Acosta’s girlfriend fails what I call The Charlie Kirk Test for the news media…” mused Newsbusters’ Curtis Houck. “When an unpredictable, horrible news event takes place, can you be a normal human being for even a few moments, or is there an instinctual or purposeful decision to be a jerk?” Jim Acosta's girlfriend fails what I call The Charlie Kirk Test for the news media… When an unpredictable, horrible news… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
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