{"id":236768,"date":"2026-04-26T01:35:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/donald-trump-shares-statement-after-shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner-says-suspect-is-in-custody\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T01:35:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:35:32","slug":"donald-trump-shares-statement-after-shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner-says-suspect-is-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/donald-trump-shares-statement-after-shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner-says-suspect-is-in-custody\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Shares Statement After Shots Fired at White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner, Says Suspect Is In Custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\t\t<span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/donald-trump\/\" title=\"Donald Trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Donald Trump<\/strong><\/a> is speaking out after a shooting outside the <strong><em>2026 White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner<\/em><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>The 79-year-old President of the United States was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/04\/25\/shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner-donald-melania-trump-evacuated\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one of many evacuated from the ballroom<\/a> at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night (April 25) after shots were fired in the lobby. <\/p>\n<p>Now, <strong>Trump<\/strong> took to his <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Truth Social<\/a> account to share his own statement on the matter, saying he wants to continue forward with the rest of the event.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-2199080\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cQuite an evening in D.C. Secret Service and Law Enforcement did a fantastic job. They acted quickly and bravely,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe shooter has been apprehended, and I have recommended that we \u2018LET THE SHOW GO ON\u2019 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\u2019ll just, plain, have to do it again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/04\/25\/politics\/live-news\/trump-white-house-correspondents-dinnerhttps:\/\/\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/04\/25\/politics\/live-news\/trump-white-house-correspondents-dinnerhttps:\/\/&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a><\/em>, there was an announcement at the event that said it would resume momentarily. <\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s <strong>Wolf Blitzer<\/strong> also recalled the moment the shots were fired as he was close by. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI start hearing gunshots in the hall right near me, and the next thing I knew, a police officer threw me to the ground and was on top of me,\u201d he shared. \u201cAnd then they grabbed me, the police officers, and they take me back into the men\u2019s room, where it was safe, and there were about 15 other men who are stuck in there, and they won\u2019t let them out, and that\u2019s what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the sudden a guy with a weapon, it was a very, very serious weapon, it starts shooting, and I happened to be a few feet away from him as he was shooting,\u201d <strong>Wolf<\/strong> added. <\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/04\/25\/donald-trump-shares-statement-after-shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner-says-suspect-is-in-custody\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump is speaking out after a shooting outside the 2026 White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner. The 79-year-old President of the United States was one of many evacuated from the ballroom at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night (April 25) after shots were fired in the lobby. Now, Trump took to his Truth Social account to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-236768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}