ALERT: Trump evacuated from the White House correspondents’ dinner by the Secret Service after an attempted attack
Sources confirm that the following story has emerged from the international scene.
The keys Generated with AI Donald Trump was evacuated from the White House correspondents’ dinner after gunshots were heard, along with Melania Trump and members of the cabinet. The alleged attacker, armed with a shotgun, wounded a Secret Service agent and attempted to break into the event before being detained and taken into custody. About 2,600 attendees took shelter under tables while the Secret Service secured the room and evacuated leaders and attendees. It is the first time that Trump attended this dinner as president; The event will be rescheduled following the incident. The president of the United States, Donald Trump, was evacuated this Saturday by Secret Service agents, along with Melania Trump and other members of the US Cabinet, from the room where the annual dinner of the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) was being held after sounds of gunshots were heard. The alleged perpetrator of the attempted attack, a person armed with a shotgun who tried to break into the event, wounding a Secret Service agent, was arrested and is in custody. Along with the Republican and his wife, other members of the Government who had attended the gala held at the Hilton Hotel in Washington were also evacuated, such as Vice President JD Vance and the Secretaries of State, Marco Rubio, of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, and of War, Pete Hegseth. President Donald Trump was escorted off the stage by Secret Service agents during the White House dinner after a possible attack pic.twitter.com/y7wBA4Bxui — clip (@clippedszn) April 26, 2026 Many of the 2,600 attendees took refuge under the tables while waiters fled to the front of the dining room after loud explosions were heard near the ballroom where the ceremony was taking place. dinner. Television images show that the apparent shots, between three and four, occurred at a time when the mentalist hired to entertain the evening, Oz Pearlman, was speaking with the president and the first lady, who exclaimed “What happened?!” upon hearing the commotion. Immediately, all the occupants of the presidential table were evacuated to a safe place and then more members of the Secret Service spread out in the ballroom carrying assault rifles and asked everyone in the room to take cover. After a few minutes, more members of the Secret Service spread out in the ballroom and began to ask attendees to leave the room because this was now “the scene of a crime,” according to the EFE journalist present at the dinner.The Secret Service reported that Trump, the first lady and the rest of the members of Trump’s Cabinet are safe. Trump himself wrote a message shortly after on the social network Truth in which he assured that a “shooter” had been arrested and that he was returning with his wife to the event, since he opted for it not to be suspended. However, in a subsequent message he announced that, at the request of law enforcement, they left the hotel, “in accordance with protocol.” The Republican added that the annual dinner with the press will be rescheduled in The Republican suffered two assassination attempts in 2024. On July 13 of that year, a man shot Trump with an assault rifle at a rally in Butler. (Pennsylvania), wounding him in the ear. The Secret Service killed the shooter and the director at that time of that body, Kimberly Cheatle, resigned days later due to errors in the protection of the former president. Two months later, on September 15, another armed man was arrested around a golf course in West Palm Beach (Florida) where Trump was and the authorities found a letter in which he detailed his plans to kill the Republican. The Republican has always maintained that Iran could be behind these two assassination attempts and went so far as to suggest that the FBI is not taking the investigation seriously.
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