"I saw a room that was totally unified. It was in one way very beautiful — a very beautiful thing to see."
Said President Trump, in an impromptu press conference at the White House, 2 hours after the incident at the Correspondents' Dinner.
I hope that shared experience brings people together. Perhaps there will be a reset and love will steer the stars: "In light of this evening's events, I ask that all Americans recommit with their hearts to resolving our differences peacefully. We have to resolve our differences. You had Republicans, Democrats, independents, conservatives, liberals, and progressives in that room — a big crowd, record-setting crowd. There was a tremendous amount of love and coming together." Come together, right now, over me.
Trump saw the opportunity to promote his ballroom: "We looked at all of the conditions that took place tonight. It's not a particularly secure building. I didn't want to say this, but this is why we have to have all of the attributes of what we're planning at the White House. It's actually a larger room and it's much more secure. It's got drone-proof and bulletproof glass. We need the ballroom."
Trump framed the incident as an assassination attempt: "This is not the first time in the past couple of years that our republic has been attacked by a would-be assassin. In Butler, Pennsylvania, less than two years ago — you all know that story. And in Palm Beach, Florida, a few months after that, we came close again. We had some great work done by law enforcement."
Trump expressed pride in himself as the target of multiple assassination attempts. Asked "Why do you think this keeps happening to you?," he said "I've studied assassinations. The most impactful people, the people that do the most, are the ones they go after. Abraham Lincoln, the big names. I hate to say I'm honored by that, but we've done a lot. We've changed this country. There are a lot of people that are not happy about that."
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"This was an event dedicated to freedom of speech..."
...to honor the White House Press Corps, an organization defecating on free speech.
Hard leftist and host of the event in 2006, Stephen Colbert, plus "Hundreds of journalists"
...signed an open letter in April, urging their colleagues to use the occasion to forcefully demonstrate their opposition to Trump’s efforts to trample the freedom of the press.
I wonder if Colbert and friends may have known something?
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5847517-colbert-white-house-correspondents-dinner-trump-criticism/
Why do you think this keeps happening to you?
Challenge to the media: Tell us you are on the same side as the attempted assassin without telling us you are on the same side as the assassin
Media: Challenge accepted
He’s a big picture man, placing the event in context moments after the chaos. Missing from these statements: blame. Message: we CAN all get along. That’s pretty amazing.
I hope that shared experience brings people together.
If they didn't do it after two a**a**ination attempts, what makes you think the third will be any different? They'll be back to calling him a NAZI, racist, fascist, etc. tomorrow morning while also leaving the Secret Service unfunded.
As someone wrote last night, Trump is dismantling the systems that our politicians and Deep State feed off of.
There’s bound to be many malevolent nitwits among them.
They want him dead.
I suppose with the yellow highlighter as an invitation to be shocked and offended by the President’s statement but I shall reject the invitation and agree with his statement. The left who can’t win hearts and minds except with the gerrymandering and manipulating facts into supportive narratives and the replacement theory gambit and the abandonment of climate change politics, supposedly the most critical issue in the history of humanity…it all sounds like a failed party and not the forces if good railing against the forces of evil. It sounds like the evil lost and now they’re mad…
If they ever succeed, they* will say don’t blame us, he brought it on himself.
* We all know who the “they” is, right Nancy, Hakeem, Chuck, Cory, Rachel, Joy, Mika???
Trump talks to the liberal press constantly. And he tells them to their faces, they are fake, liars, and full of shit. Openly challenging the liberal media is not the same as restricting press freedom. Read that letter Dan Rather and other sanctimonious shitheads signed
The left has found another Luigi.
The goal of formalwear in large measure seems to be men blending in and women standing out, sexual dimorphism needing a bit of a boost on special occasions.
The Minocqua Brewing, one of Wisconsin's cherished psycho liberal organizations, is on X stating disappointment that Trump wasn't killed. The promise to give away free beer if it ever happens. That is the liberal mindset. There will be no unity in America.
One of the peanut gallery' fan
There are millions of Americans who want Trump dead. Think of all those people in Minnesota who harassed ICE.
All the political violence and hate is on the Left. I, for one, have received death threats for criticizing the Left. And now my law license is on the line because I criticized an elected official. I suppose if I win my Lancaster, Burt or Knox County federal cases, I’ll be killed. I’m the most dangerous - and effective - opponent to wind and solar energy in NE.
Mr President, do you feel in any way responsible for us trying to kill you?
Repeatedly?
From X:
Benjamin Domenech
@bdomenech
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Remember that Rutgers study that found more than half of left of center respondents said it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Donald Trump?
Maybe we should believe the left when they declare who they want to kill.
Here's the study: https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/Assassination-Culture.pdf
“ Remember that Rutgers study that found more than half of left of center respondents said it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Donald Trump?”
If Nebraska Democrats were polled, I bet that 10% would say that it would be somewhat justified to murder Dave Begley.
I’m not kidding. Nebraska Nice is a myth.
Omaha seems to be a zoo, that Marlon perkins wouldnt de with
The problem with the media is they think freedom of the press is synonymous with freedom of speech. Outside of opinion pieces, freedom of the press is not a constitutional right to lie and fabricate facts while relaying information. Individuals can lie all they want, but the “press” is supposed to be a check on government actions using verifiable facts and timelines. The press should be censured (punished) when it misbehaves. They don’t agree with that.
Allen shot randomly outside and he would have done the same inside. He would certainly have killed some lefty media figures. Think about it. Lefty media figures such as Hasan Piker have been urging people to kill [political opponents] and now we have some one ready to step into a room mainly full of lefty media figures and their wives, and shoot, hoping to hit government officials scattered among the media. Now lefty lives don't count either. When violence takes over, death stops discriminating.
I hope that shared experience brings people together. Perhaps there will be a reset and love will steer the stars: "In light of this evening's events, I ask that all Americans recommit with their hearts to resolving our differences peacefully.
Of course you do. You voted for Obama who started all of this.
At least with the Clintons there was some sort of idea that we all lived in the same country and had the same values. They were corrupt sociopathic pieces of shit that sold the country out for campaign contributions, but they at least lived with the idea that the United States was a country with fellow countrymen in it.
But Obama has turned Washington DC and the Democrat party into a purely fascist enterprise that will kill and persecute anyone that opposes them.
Trump and Ann are too nice/cowardly. They are going to get more people killed. Particularly children who are being indoctrinated into the cause.
There is no coming together Ann. Over half the democrat party thinks it is justifiable to kill Trump.
You do not reconcile that. You treat it like cancer. If cancer wins we die. Period.
Trump handles assassination attempts with buoyancy and elan. These attempts may yet cost him his life, but they won't cost him any votes.......I've only seen that one picture of the assassin. He's no Luigi Mangione.....The Secret Service seems to be getting better. Practice makes perfect....Trump has an outsized personality. He's a magnet for all the loose filings. Does he presently hold the record for the most assassination attempts?
#LoveTrumpsHate
#HateTrumpsLove
#HateLovesAbortion QED
Seeing as there is a color revolution brewing in the military as well what do you suggest
Key or peele double, yes they redoubled their efforts after alexandria
It probably doesn't help matters when Trump accuses some of his political opponents of "seditious behavior" that is "punishable by death."
Thats what they have done for years
They side with the enemy, at home as abroad
This is why we cant have nice things
They defend rapists murderers human smugglers
Trump is a guy who knows how to maintain an even strain. I never thought the guy had real balls. I always thought he was just a spoiled big mouth. Rich kid. But it's obvious he is a true Mensch.
Notice how he did not take the opportunity to whine and complain and make strawman arguments in order to make political points to fellow travelers. Can you imagine what Kamala Harris would have said in the same situation? She'd be talking about locking down the whole country and confiscating everyone's weapons.
I think one of the things that he realizes is that these attempts on his life are only giving him more and more strength and political capital. I can imagine that the irgc and their their Mullet puppets In turbans wearing Clark Kent glasses Will have taken notice that this guy isn't afraid of being assassinated then for sure he isn't afraid of them either. In fact, they are probably already calculating that. This incident gives him more freedom to do whatever nasty business he needs to close the deal.
Has it ever occurred to you who so virtuously claim to be "antiFA" that you're actually just "FA"? Like, really, really FA. In fact, based on all the events and evidence to date, you are totally FA-cked up and don't even know it.
'Are we the baddies' no that never occurs to them
I don't think Trump is cowardly. I watched it and then sent quotes out to friends with jobs -- all I can manage now is tone, but that matters.
This is a guy who went from almost being killed and then body-slammed out of a crappy hotel ballroom with his very reasonably traumatized wife, to calling the shot officer, to doing a brilliant off-the-cuff presser before a hostile audience less than an hour later.
Leaders need different skill sets than ordinary people. Trump was a honey badger with a sense of appropriately muted humor; actual respect for police and our values, and even empathy that trumped his duller media critics while still sincerely acknowledging what they had all experienced -- as Americans together.
What do they do now? They can do nothing without looking churlish. They will still do it. He did not.
Yes hes remarkable sang froid behind the scenes hes probably furious
Gusty Winds: "The promise to give away free beer if it ever happens."
Is solicitation of murder a federal crime?
One more observation. Now, not only has he demonstrated that he is a great 4D stable genius and warrior President, but he obviously has risen to Jedi philosopher as well. He understands the power that is accumulating within him with every failed attempt to bring him down! His legend grows with every attempt. What other President or leader of any kind has ever had this many attempts? He says that you "honor" him by trying, you silly 2D Lilliputians.
The sangfroid narciso mentions is, of course, being interpreted by lots of people on X as a sign that he knew it was coming. The most ridiculous charge is that it was all a ploy to quash criticism of the ballroom.
Come on, guys.
How many kids are we going to allow these demons to turn into democrat foot soldiers?
How many kids are going to be allowed to be raised to think it is OK to kill the President? We are letting them teach our children to act like this. They are allowed to say these things in public and nothing ever happens to them.
They should at least be moved to France or South Africa where they belong.
You cant kick this heel mahmoud khalil out of the country
I like that image: Trump as honey badger vs. the Spitting Worms
The Mangione left sees the video of the crazed gunman charging toward the ballroom and thinks, "This is what democracy looks like."
Another crazed Leftist trying to kill someone he doesn't like. We'll see that the wannabe assassian gets in terms of jail time. The DC jury may let him go. The judge may give him a year in prison. Stay tuned.
Go with a Victory Mince, lonejustus @8:33am. Dig deep!
Trump is right. They need a WH ballroom for these big events.
The Hotel security, despite what Trump says was terrible. And rando could check into the Hotel with guns. The event was publicized in advance so the assassian (sic) had plenty of time to plan the attack, and knew exactly when and where Trump would be.
I haven't seen much footage but I hope the SS detail no longer consists of 5-4 women who cant get their gun outta their holster.
And yeah the left is violent. Thanks for noticing. Now what?
“Another crazed Leftist trying to kill someone he doesn't like. “
He actually shot at and hit a USSS agent.
Maybd he bought that 'genocide' folderall
Trump is right. They need a WH ballroom for these big events.
There were 3,000 at this event. The proposed new WH ballroom only seats 1,000. Trump should say we need to make the new ballroom even bigger, just to troll the media.
He actually shot at and hit a USSS agent.
Okey-dokey. Yeah, that's why he charged the ballroom with all those guns. He just hated the secret service. Derp. Derp.
The Trump that most people talk about is not the real Trump. It’s a made up character by the left and the right. If you listen to his election night acceptance speech from his first term, you’ll see the real Trump, but the left never let him be that person. and now the right is almost defying him or saying he’s God‘s messenger
A road paved with broken rice bowls is a dangerous path indeed.
Hes an ordinaty man with a great deal of will, willing to do what many have not even tried
The Hack D press are the enemy.
Jake Tapper - looking at you.
Gusty Winds nails it.
@William 8:29am: "Does he [Trump] presently hold the record for the most assassination attempts?"
According to Gemini AI, Trump now holds the record for assassination attempts at 3, with Ford and Lincoln tied at 2, and Andrew Jackson and Reagan tied at 1.
The "right" does not "deify" President Trump. We respect, admire, and support him. We're not cult members. Democrat Party members are the ones who make votive candles out of politicians.
Nine lives, bitches.
https://x.com/i/status/2048243480854778046
Agree with RCO. I could see a DC jury voting not guilty on Cole Allen. The DOJ knows that so it will probably have to be a plea deal.
Having mastered large language models, epidemiology, mRNA vaccine design, bridge engineering, submersible dynamics, balloon dynamics, toilet paper supply chain logistics, nuclear physics, the economics of inflation, Russian history, Middle Eastern history and elementary Farsi, the Althouse commentariat would like to explain their theory of what really happened at the White House Correspondents Dinner last evening..
What kind of statement is this? "Trump framed the incident as an assassination attempt." As if it was not an assassination attempt but merely Trump framing it as such.
Mark, I was just about to make the same remark. This is the kind of thing that Althouse points out in other's writings on a frequent basis, surprised to see it in her prose.
Also, of all of the publicized shootings in the country over the past decade, why is it that the three that involve attempts on Trump's life are the only three that the Left doesn't immediately call to confiscate everyone's guns?
Mark - we already know that you leftists - who deal in nothing but obsessive non-stop Trump hate - will find something or someone - else to blame.
TinyEE® was scheduled to have treatment for his recent attack of coprophagia, but he rescheduled his appointment with the vet.
Donald J Trump is the most impactful POTUS in my lifetime. I’m not sure if we can keep the country from being destroyed by the democrats, but Donald J Trump literally saved this country from complete ruin.
I only pray we can keep it out of the hands of de of the democrats to finally destroy it.
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They want him dead.”
They want you and me dead as well.
Batya Ungar-Sargon
@bungarsargon
"The week we learned Charlottesville was funded by the Left and NYT published an interview justifying murder, President Trump survives a third assassination attempt.
We don't have a political violence problem in America. We have a Left-wing political violence problem in America"
Indeed we do.
The leftist scenarios:
• It was fake.
• It was staged.
• Assassin was really a right-winger who thought Trump wasn't conservative enough.
• It was the Jews/ Mossad.
He is the usual suspect no kings wide awakd the works
SS fired shots back at the assassian and missed. Good Grief.
Per wolf blitzer, he was thrown to the ground by policemen who "covered my body to protect me". Good God, what a waste of law enforcement. "I died for Wolf Blitzer" shouldn't be on anyone's tombstone. LOL
Suspected gunman checked into WHCA dinner hotel night before event | Fox News https://share.google/TzDDyaaD97P5ephxh
"The DOJ knows that so it will probably have to be a plea deal."
Probably disturbing the peace and possession of gun without a liscense. I'm reading he was another person who was mentally unstable and his family was trying to get him help. So, maybe they'll just call him crazy and send him to psychriatic care.
Remember the DC Judge/Jury wouldn't even convict Hinkley was maiming Brady for life and almost killing Reagan. They found him "Insane" and let him spent 30 years in a cushy facilitiy for the mentally ill.
"Never forget how immediately after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Destiny stated that “we need conservatives to be afraid of getting killed when they go to events”
The left consistently calls for us to be killed/hurt and then cheer when we’re killed. Wake up to where we’re at."
The press will note the gunman's actions were mostly peaceful and Constitutionally protected until the fascist government intervened.
For many Trump cabinet members the tragedy of last night’s incident at the WHCD is that the room was evacuated before drinks were served.
Trump was calling various journalists this morning to make sure they were okay.
Yeah, it is Trump that is full of hate.
Here's hoping the journalists who claim to have feared for their lives last night will reflect on what they have wrought.
I don't want to hear anything about Kash Patel or Pete Hegseth drinking. Last night after the shooting, journalists were grabbing full bottles of wine from abandoned tables. I saw one woman drinking straight from the bottle.
Are you saying this was NOT an assassination attempt?
Are they ever sober
It does not take a security expert to unravel the layers of failure that happened at a Washington, D.C. hotel on Saturday night. Major blunders..How on earth could someone with a disassembled long gun check into a room at a hotel where the president was going to speak? I can answer that said a hotel goer. Nobody even looked at my luggage on Friday afternoon. Worse, my colleague arrived on Saturday at 5 p.m. Nobody looked at his luggage either: No magnometers, no hand checks, no I.D. checks. Nothing.How on earth could that person get downstairs and assemble a long gun? I can answer that too. guest said. I moved up and down from Floor 10 all day. Nobody ever stopped me and asked me anything. I have never shown my I.D., except to the clerk who checked me in; I have never been searched or frisked when I checked in, or moved in and out of the hotel. To get down from my room to the dinner, I simply flashed my ticket. It could have been a photocopy.The only time I went past a checkpoint was at the same magnetometers that Cole Allen, 31, sprinted past with his gun.Another colleague was outside; I texted them a copy of their ticket. That allowed them to get into the hotel as far as those same magnetometers, entirely unchecked.How on earth could that be considered safe? Big security failures Secret Service needs better systems.
“ The "right" does not "deify" President Trump. We respect, admire, and support him”
Trump is a political centrist, pragmatist, American rich man who takes advantage of his social status in regard to women, and has gaudy taste in design. He isn’t and has never been a racist. He also isn’t a man particularly interested in or concerned with God or Christ. One of the keys to Trump is that he doesn’t respect suckers in a deal, and he believes America has been suckers in too many international deals. And that’s who he’s always been, if you go back and watch him on Regis Philbin or Letterman.
You never know when you psychos will go feral after 11 years of this crap
No plea deal.
If a DC jury refuses to convict, it makes an important statement about Democrat voters.
You must have an ID to get into any Democrat function. And the security works, there.
The left consistently calls for us to be killed/hurt and then cheer when we’re killed.
The level of hypocrisy spewing from you all is astounding. It might even be funny if it wasn't so sad.
You need to go no further than the comments in this blog (and as far as right wing blogs go, this one is rather moderate) to see that a good number of you regularly wish death on "libtards", the media, coomies, fascists, traitors, Nazis, the residents of most major cities. On top of that you call your fellow Americans things like vermin or cockroaches, dehumanizing them. Some even go as far as advocate killing, imprisoning or executing 30% of Americans.
You have no problem when the president calls the media "enemies of the people" or advocates torture, murder, and even genocide. There are regular calls here to wipe out all muslims or at least get rid of them.
Heck, Bruce Hayden spent several paragraphs pontificating on the best ammo and gun combination for killing BLM protesters.
Get a little, just a tiny bit, of self awareness.
Cfs: “ Last night after the shooting, journalists were grabbing full bottles of wine from abandoned tables.”
Is that because they’re drunks, or cheap MFs wanting to get the most for their ticket money after the event was cut short?
But I agree, neither is a good look, especially since most of them claim to be socialists who don’t mind being taxed out the ass.
Now if any Fox personalities grabbed wine that they already paid for, I would salute them for practicing the fiscal discipline they preach.
On the third hand, there is something about surviving a deadly incident in formalwear and then drinking a toast to it. Not going to have many or any opportunities to do that. CC, JSM
Why was Trump even at the WHCD? Would have been pretty ironic if he'd have been killed doing in such a pointless waste of time, a circle jerk that only feeds the morbidly obese egos of the worst people in America and pisses off his voters.
He isn’t and has never been a racist.
Then why did he and his dad refuse to rent to black people? Or why did he call for the execution of the Central Park Five after they had been exonerated?
"It does not take a security expert to unravel the layers of failure that happened at a Washington, D.C. hotel on Saturday night."
The assailant never got past the magnetometers..
All these people whining about why the whole hotel wasn’t locked down would be whining about why the hotel was locked down. Yawl know that. We pipe and you don’t dance; we mourn and you don’t weep.
Except of course when you want the entire city to be locked down to that level, all the time (at least as applied to the productive people). CC, JSM
You must have an ID to get into any Democrat function. And the security works, there.
Sheesh, he barely made it past the first security checkpoint. If he had somehow made it to the doors of the ballroom he would have encountered locked doors and even more security personnel. His plot was ill-planned and he had zero chance of even getting into the ballroom.
“ Then why did he and his dad refuse to rent to black people?”
Sorry, FF but what one’s father does, doesn’t count. And in regard to him not renting to black people, I’m gonna have to see some authoritative citation on that.
Sheesh, he barely made it past the first security checkpoint.
The unusual part is that he was a hotel guest. What he actually wanted—who knows. This otherwise clean-record Caltech grad apparently thought he could sprint to the back of a locked ballroom—a poorly thought-out plan—and brought exactly the kind of weapons you wouldn't choose if your goal was to harm someone at the far end of the room. As Trump alluded to — it’s all very odd.
Trump is right. They need a WH ballroom for these big events.
This was a private, not a government, function. I doubt they will be renting out the ballroom for weddings, quinceaneras and Bar Mitzvahs,
@DINKY --
If they ran magnetometers in hotels they'd have false alarms for golf clubs, metal-framed suitcases, umbrellas, PCs, cameras and camera tripods, and lots of other stuff. Setting up screening checkpoints didn't happen at airports until after 9/11. The costs and hassles are huge.
The staff at the Mandalay Bay hotel even helped the Vegas shooter move his heavy suitcases packed with guns up to his room (2017).
A breakdown shotgun like a Mossberg Maverick would be only as long as its barrel (e.g., 18.5"), and weigh as much as a couple golf clubs. They take only 30 seconds to assemble or disassemble.
And in regard to him not renting to black people, I’m gonna have to see some authoritative citation on that.
Here you go
"If a DC jury refuses to convict, it makes an important statement about Democrat voters."
Whatever. Yeah it'll "make a statement". boy that's gonna sting. Sarcasm off. DC juries convicted every single J6 protester - no matter what. They've convicted every Republican charged with lying to congress or for contempt. And they've let numerous D's doing the same thing off.
they've let criminals guilty of assault and robbery off. "Too many black men are in jail" is their reasoning.
But y'know if they let this assassin go free, it'll make a statement and some mysterious somebodies, somewhere, will get upset and change things. Just more copium.
Viewing the video Its somewhat funny how the SS rush the VP and First lady/POTUS off the stage and everyone is left to fend for themselves. Most of them duck down and crawl under the Dias
Are we supposed to shoot you psychos a priori, he believes the same crap you do.
Fredo takes the L.
"even helped the Vegas shooter"
That guy didn't shoot anyone.
(So you cite to the AP? I said authoritative.)
That’s really weak FF because all you’re doing is proving to my point that you’ve redefined him. And the AP is complicit in helping you do it. Trump was 27 in 1973, but you somehow make him an integral part of the business that his father had going for a long time. To that end do you know what year the applications with the alleged C occurred? the article doesn’t say.Was it a time when discrimination was pervasive? I’m not saying it was right, but pervasive? Secondly, have you ever defended a case as a company that actually was caused by what some underlining did that you had no idea that they were doing. Was that the case here? Don’t know, do we - and you don’t appear open to that possibility. Thirdly, the APs statement is ridiculous. Of course other companies had charges brought against them. Or are you saying that the discrimination law was passed and only one company - Trump’s father’s - was ever accused of violating it.
But this is my point: you make every presumption against Trump to prove that he’s a racist, but it’s not supported by the totality facts in my view. Somehow you’ve made “racist” his defining characteristic. And you had to do it for your political gain, and that’s wrong. Trump and all other people are a lot more good and a lot more complex than your political worldview is allowing.
Fredo sounds frantic … and disappointed,
I find it amazing that people here actually think a D.C. jury won't convict the shooter. Maybe you should bet on the predictions markets -- and lose your shirt.
Are we still steaming because a D.C. grand jury refused to indict sitting congressmen/veterans for telling servicemen they should not obey unlawful orders?
He shot 50 people
He shot 50 people
questions aren't an arguement
@jim5301, there is the OJ Simpson precedent - a different place, to be sure, and a different situation, but a jury that failed to convict a clearly guilty defendant for reasons not primarily having to do with, say, the incompetence of the prosecution (yes, there were some missteps there, but does anyone actually believe that Simpson was not guilty, based on the evidence?).
What I'm saying is, in a town that's overwhelmingly Democrat and nearly as overwhelmingly specifically anti-Trump, why is it a stretch to believe that a jury formed of that population might not convict a person who didn't even actually succeed in killing anyone?
Yeah, the shooter wasn't a great planner. Amazing, usually these guys have 150 IQs
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