{"id":138893,"date":"2026-04-26T05:02:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/trump-evacuated-from-white-house-correspondents-dinner-after-security-incident\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T05:02:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:02:45","slug":"trump-evacuated-from-white-house-correspondents-dinner-after-security-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/trump-evacuated-from-white-house-correspondents-dinner-after-security-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump evacuated from White House correspondents\u2019 dinner after security incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON, Apr 25 \u2013 U.S. President Donald Trump has been evacuated from the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner after what appears to be a security incident at the event, according to a live broadcast on Saturday night.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Attendees were seen on the live broadcast ducking around their tables and taking cover. Multiple news outlets reported that gunshots were heard in the White House ballroom.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, First Lady Melania, Vice President JD Vance not injured after security incident at White House correspondents\u2019 annual dinner <\/p>\n<p>Organizers announced that the program will resume momentarily, but did not offer more details.<\/p>\n<p>This would mark President Trump\u2019s first time attending the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump confirmed that the shooter at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner is in custody in his Truth Social post. (Xinhua\/Li Rui)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Apr 25 \u2013 U.S. President Donald Trump has been evacuated from the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner after what appears to be a security incident at the event, according to a live broadcast on Saturday night. Attendees were seen on the live broadcast ducking around their tables and taking cover. Multiple news outlets reported that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}