Trump evacuated from White House Correspondents' Dinner after shots fired

megamike 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

EARLIER: Karoline Leavitt calls on everyone to watch tonight because there will be 'shots fired'...

rasz 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That Civil War proof nuclear bunker under the Ballroom cant come quick enough.

rport 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

President Trump and other government officials were evacuated from the Washington Hilton during the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner on Saturday evening following reports of gunfire at the venue. Authorities have confirmed that a suspect has been apprehended. No immediate injuries have been reported, and the Secret Service is managing the scene.

	▲	isolay 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The article says that Trump says a law enforcement officer has been wounded. Has that been proven wrong?

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zzleeper 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Hard to have any idea of what happened due to the FOW. There's some grainy footage (posted by Trump) of someone running past the SS checkpoint; where you can see some shots fired by the SS. Then Blitzer who says this person might have had multiple large guns, etc.

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Markoff 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

the lengths this crazy guy will go to take away public's attention from his incompetence...

I really don't understand how are Americans fine with him ruining US and world economy.

	▲	isolay 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		He's firing scientists and grabbing every last cent he can competently enough. And is anyone still reporting on Epstein files? He just doesn't care that the whole country goes down in flames.

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xvxvx 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Hilarious that Vance was evacuated nearly 30 seconds before Trump.

	▲	vharuck 13 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Did both the president and vice president attend past dinners? I thought protocol was to rarely have them in the same location, in case of something like this.
	▲	debo_ 13 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		He had ad-Vance notice.
	▲	cosmicgadget 12 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Mobility difference?
	▲	dzhiurgis 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Must be polymarket insider trading
	▲	andsoitis 13 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> Hilarious that Vance was evacuated nearly 30 seconds before Trump. Why is it hilarious?

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Jamesbeam 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Glad everyone is ok, including Trump. Every assassination attempt on the man is such nonsense.

There is not a single good reason to try to kill Trump.

Just ridicule him in public and call him out for what he is. That’s hurting the man more than any bullet could. Have you seen him rage and yell “fuck you” at a factory worker for calling him a pedophile protector? That’s the way to deal with Trump. Laugh about him, call him an idiot, or a PPP.

You vote him out of office, like people did before. You see his lawyer sweat black goo and laugh about it, and about Trump ranting on social media for a while, then go on with your life.

He is 79. I’d be surprised if he made it past 85. That’s like six more Christmases. We are almost done with his nonsense. Don’t throw your life away because of him.

In 200 years, the man will be erased from collective human conscience.

When was the last time you and your friends thought about John Quincy Adams, the US President 200 years ago? Young people barely have the attention span to make it through the news, if they are not dancing them on TikTok.

His buildings will be renamed, his policies rolled back, he will be no more than a stain in American history.

All emperors meet the same fate, since we started putting things on the record. Nobody cares about them, you, or me in about three generations’ worth of lifetimes.

That’s some of the beauty of being human. Everything will be forgotten in time, unless you did upload photos from that spring break at Lake Havasu in 2005 to Facebook, that shit stays forever, talking about you, Emily.

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isolay 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Just ridicule him in public and call him out for what he is. That’s hurting the man more than any bullet could.

Bullseye.

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f33d5173 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Ridicule doesn't work. It hasn't worked at all. In fact it did the opposite. The constant attention on trump since the beginning was what lead to his rise. Certain elements in the masses saw themselves in the ridicule directed at trump, and identified with him as a result. That's why despite being a total failure policy wise he was voted in a second time. You need to focus on the failures of his policy. Take them seriously. Demand they be explained to you, as citizens of a republic. When they harm you, express outrage. That is what hurts trump.

	▲	Jamesbeam 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You are not wrong but also not right. The CIA is toppling oppressive regimes this way for decades. You create friction, the oppressor pushes back, and the people gather behind the oppressed. Ridicule and constantly calling out idiots for what they are does work. You create friction by it. Trump made sure the factory worker gets fired, people were pushing back by donating for him, and they will vote against him in the midterms. Abuse of power directed at the citizens is something most people will not forget or forgive in a free society, no matter what political beliefs they have, unless they are facists. The stuff Petti did, filming ICE agents, being in their face, openly calling them out, created friction. They killed him because of that friction. The whole state pushed back in return. Creating friction is what makes Republicans losing seats in the Congress and allows the regain of power from Trump, who is mostly ruling by executive order. As a citizen, it’s not your job to focus on the failures of his job and show them to the public. It’s what you voted representatives for and the job of journalists. You demand their inactivity to be explained by them over the phone, over mail, respectfully showing up at their office. All day, every day, the only time they should be at peace is when they eat, sleep or be on the toilet. You create friction for them. It’s not the fault of the people that he got voted again, it’s that most of the Senate and Congress rather try to protect their own interests and power than openly confronting the President, creating friction, every day, all day, until the President pushes back. Which in return will have the people gather behind the suppressed, jailed, or murdered representatives. You have a different method of creating friction in mind, but don’t do the job of the people you pay handsomely to represent you or that of the press. Your energy is better spent creating friction for them until they act. Then you support them when they take the heat they are supposed to take if they fight for your rights instead of just cashing in from their position of embarrassing passiveness.

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cheese_van 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What aspect of technology or science is reflected in this report regarding a crime? Does this type of reporting belong on HN?