A new angle of video from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner has emerged. The video shows the side of the VIP table where President Trump and Vice President JD Vance were seated during the shooting at the Washington Hilton Hotel. As shots rang out, the video shows Secret Service agents quickly moving in and physically pulling on JD Vance to get to safety. Take a look: Vice President JD Vance was escorted out by the Secret Service, followed by agents quickly surrounding President Trump after an incident at the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner : Getty pic.twitter.com/t25GMqCfL7 — TMZ (@TMZ) April 26, 2026 This is an interesting question: Um, how bad is it that the president was extracted last? Am I seeing that right? I have a hundred questions. Most of them I have been asking for more than 10 years. Not much seems to change and it’s dangerous. https://t.co/15UvaduJok — Jason Chaffetz (@jasoninthehouse) April 26, 2026 Metro reportedly got in contact with a forensic lip reader who believes they have interpreted what Vance said during the moment: A lipreader has revealed how Vice President JD Vance reacted as an apparent would-be assassin stormed a dinner event in Washington DC. Gunshots rang out at the hotel where the formal White House Correspondents’ Dinner was being held, where Donald Trump was preparing to address top US journalists on Saturday evening. Dramatic footage from the scene shows personnel rushing on stage to pullTrump, his wife, Melania, and several other top administration officials. Secret Service members clutched onto the Vice President and yanked him out of his seat as the chaos unfolded. Forensic lipreader Nicola Hickling revealed that a bodyguard apparently went up to Vance shouting: ‘Run, f***ing run.’ Officials said the attacker was armed with a shotgun, a handgun and multiple knives when he charged at a security checkpoint by the ballroom. Trump later posted pictures of the suspect in the shooting lying face down on the carpeted floor, topless. US outlets identified him as Cole Thomas Allen, 31, from Torrance, California.

I guess your brain has to be wired this way if you are in the fighting business! UFC President and prominent Trump supporter Dana White gave his reaction to the shooting that occurred at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday Night. White, while leaving the Washington Hilton Hotel, was approached by a reporter who asked for his reaction to the shooting. White, unlike other guests at the dinner, shared that he did not hide underneath the tables and later added, ” It was awesome. Fox News provided White’s full reaction to the shooting: The reactions to the shocking shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner are coming in, but I don’t think you’ll see too many like the one coming from UFC boss Dana White. White is, of course, a close friend of the president and was invited to the event. In fact, he was even interviewed on the red carpet and talked about the upcoming UFC Freedom 250 that will take place at the White House on June 14. But the night took a turn when a gunman stormed a security checkpoint and shot a Secret Service agent, who is, thankfully, expected to be okay. Fortunately, there have been no reports of attendees being hurt, and President Trump, the first lady, Vice President JD Vance, and other Trump administration officials were taken out of the room while guests hid under tables. Obviously, the ballroom where the dinner was taking place was filled with more than 2,000 people who were understandably very shaken by what had happened. However, Dana White was not one of those rattled by it. As guests were filing out of the Washington Hilton ballroom and the surrounding area, White took a second to talk to some reporters on his way out about what he experienced. “It started getting noisy, tables started flipping over, guys running in with guns, and they were screaming ‘Get down,'” White said. “I didn’t get down. It was f–king awesome. I literally took every minute of it in, and it was a pretty crazy, unique experience.” Watch White here: UFC CEO Dana White was in attendance during the alleged shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and gave his reaction. "It was f*cking awesome. I literally took every minute of it in. It was a pretty crazy, unique experience." (via @USATODAY) pic.twitter.com/FHRQVcmHgx — MMA Junkie (@MMAJunkie) April 26, 2026 White and the Secret Service will soon have their hands full as the UFC and the Trump administration are planning to host a fight on the White House’s front lawn in June. AP provided further details on the event: Cage-match fighting is coming to the White House to fete President Donald Trump, a proud proponent of cage-match politics. In the coming weeks, crews will erect a 6-foot (1.83 meter) wire-mesh fence shaped into an octagon on the lawn, where UFC fighters will use a combination of kickboxing, jiujitsu, wrestling and other martial arts in a June 14 mixed martial arts show timed for Trump’s 80th birthday and as part of the nation’s 250th anniversary. The celebration of bloody, brute force dovetails with Trump’s gleefully combative charisma and extreme ideological masculinity — a brawling, no-holds-barred approach to the highest office in the land. “I have respect for fighters, you know, when you can take 200 shots to the face and then look forward to the second round,” Trump told podcaster Logan Paul as he campaigned for his second term. Trump was the first sitting president to attend a UFC show, taking in a 2019 fight that was stopped because of a cut over the loser’s eye that left blood pouring down the fighter’s face.

While his political rivals are quick to write the entire undertaking off as a vanity project, President Donald Trump has always insisted that his vision for a grand White House ballroom goes far beyond any desire for self-aggrandizement. Instead, he has long portrayed it as a necessary tool not only for effective foreign relations but also another layer of protection against a troubling surge in politically motivated violence. And a shooting that disrupted Saturday night’s the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner proved his point, the president asserted the following morning. Per KTXS: “What happened last night is exactly the reason that our great Military, Secret Service, Law Enforcement and, for different reasons, every President for the last 150 years, have been DEMANDING that a large, safe, and secure Ballroom be built ON THE GROUNDS OF THE WHITE HOUSE. This event would never have happened with the Militarily Top Secret Ballroom currently under construction at the White House. It cannot be built fast enough!” Trump wrote on Truth Social. The President was scheduled to speak at the dinner being held at the Washington Hilton, which included hundreds of guests ranging from Cabinet members to journalists. However, the event was cut short when a suspect, armed with a shotgun, handgun and multiple knives, reportedly made it past the outermost layer of security at the event and charged into the hotel lobby area in an attempt to breach a Secret Service checkpoint. Trump previously addressed the situation in remarks delivered shortly after the shooting: After an Indian reporter, in broken English, asked Trump about his "message" after tonight's shooting, Trump replied, "It doesn't happen to people that don't do anything." Trump added that it will not deter him from winning the Iran War. Follow: @AFpost pic.twitter.com/doAIDNIuOC — AF Post (@AFpost) April 26, 2026 Even then, he reiterated his call for a ballroom, a project the left has continually aimed to block: President Trump's press conference post-shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner. He says the entire room was united, the officer who was shot in the vest is in good spirits, this is why the ballroom is needed:"This was an event dedicated to freedom of speech that was… pic.twitter.com/81zUT9zU1C — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) April 26, 2026 Here’s the full text of the post from above: President Trump’s press conference post-shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner. He says the entire room was united, the officer who was shot in the vest is in good spirits, this is why the ballroom is needed: “This was an event dedicated to freedom of speech that was supposed to bring together members of both parties with members of the press. And in a certain way it did, because the fact that they just unified. I saw a room that was just totally unified. It was, in one way, very beautiful, a very beautiful thing to see. A man charged a security checkpoint armed with multiple weapons, and he was taken down by some very brave members of Secret Service, and they acted very quickly and have just released, for purposes of transparency, clarity, I’ve ordered it to be put out. You probably have it by now, put out on Truth and put out on many other platforms a tape showing the violence of this thug that attacked our Constitution. And also showing how quickly Secret Service and law enforcement acted on our country’s behalf, really did a great job. One officer was shot, but saved by the fact that he was wearing a obviously a very good bulletproof vest. He was shot from very close distance with a very powerful gun. And the vest did the job. I just spoke to the officer and he’s doing great. He’s in great shape. He is – has very high spirits. And we told him we love him and respect him. And he’s a very proud guy. He’s very proud of what he does, Secret Service agent. And we looked at all of the conditions that took place tonight. And I will say, you know, it’s not a particularly secure building. And 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 a much more secure. It’s got it’s drone proof, it’s bulletproof glass. We need the ballroom.” And here’s the footage of the incident as it unfolded: “Shots fired,” screamed the Secret Service agents. President Trump and Cabinet members were escorted out of the main ballroom by the Secret Service and the U.S. Marshals. pic.twitter.com/s1ikd8tun8 — The Washington Times (@WashTimes) April 26, 2026 A BBC report emphasized the concerns Saturday evening’s incident raise regarding a president who has already faced multiple assassination attempts: Gary O’Donoghue, the BBC’s Chief North America correspondent who was at the dinner, said while roads were closed around the Washington Hilton for hours, security at the venue itself “wasn’t particularly heavy”. “The man on the door outside only took a cursory look at my ticket from what must have been six feet away,” he wrote. Tickets to the dinner only had table numbers written on them and not the actual names of guests. Identification was not checked at any point for those entering the hotel. Guests making their way to the dinner went down escalators from the main lobbies, before going through a security checkpoint in an area one level above the ballroom entrances. When the dinner begins, they go down a flight of stairs to enter. This recent report shows where Trump’s effort to build the ballroom currently stands:

This is an interesting coincidence. Just moments before a shooting took place at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made an interesting comment. As WLT Report previously reported, Cole Allen, 31, reportedly opened fire on Secret Service agents inside the Washington Hilton Hotel. The shooting took place just 50 yards away from where President Trump and other U.S. officials were seated. Leavitt, before the shooting took place, in an interview with Fox News, shared, “There will be some shots fired tonight.” NDTV provided more details on Leavitt’s remarks: White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s comments that “there will be some shots fired tonight” has gone viral because of the timing of what she said. She was speaking to a Fox News journalist, before a shooter attacked the venue of the White House press dinner. The attacker, who US President Donald Trump said was likely a “lone wolf”, also shot at a security officer. “He is ready to rumble, I will tell you. This speech tonight will be classic Donald J Trump. It’ll be funny, it’ll be entertaining. There will be some shots fired tonight in the room. So everyone should tune in, it’s going to be really great,” Levitt said ahead of the event, clearly referring to a speech that would be characteristic of Trump’s loud and fiery public addresses. To a question about who wrote the speech, she said, “I can’t take credit. In true Donald Trump fashion, the man puts his pen to the paper himself. So it’s a lot of his own work.” Watch here: Karoline Leavitt to Fox before the WHCD event: There will be some shots fired tonight pic.twitter.com/vcVfZxYoat — Acyn (@Acyn) April 26, 2026 Now granted, “shots fired” is a common way people verbalize the moment when someone makes targeted jokes at people. However, users on X took it literally. Take a look: Before the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner — Karoline Leavitt said to tune in because Trump would bring the heat. “There will be shots fired.” She said that. Tonight there were. What did she know? pic.twitter.com/Dwg1E8tFDd — Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) April 26, 2026 WHAT THE F*CK? Before the event even began, Karoline Leavitt: “there will be shots fired tonight.” pic.twitter.com/3U2r2Jdcxg https://t.co/2ik7VntGfM — CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) April 26, 2026 Others didn’t take it literally: ”There will be some shots fired tonight in the room.”– Karoline Leavitt I know it wasn’t meant in that way but wow, just wow. Thank God President Trump and everyone in attendance are okay. pic.twitter.com/FS6UaQ7qIa —

Although public sentiment has shifted back toward sanity during the second term of President Donald Trump, there’s still plenty of evidence that leftist social contagions are still alive in certain pockets of the United States. Education continues to be a hotbed of radical ideas, particularly as they relate to the LGBT agenda. That debate came to a head recently in North Carolina, as the Daily Wire reported: A North Carolina school board is refusing to protect female students in bathrooms and locker rooms, despite months of concerns from students and parents. Trista Ruck, a junior at Cox Mill High School in Cabarrus County, addressed the Cabarrus County School Board in December of 2025 and asked them to create a policy defending female-only spaces at the school. At Ruck’s school, a male student identifying as a woman is on the football and basketball cheer team and uses women’s locker rooms and restrooms. “Many of my peers and I feel uncomfortable using facilities designed for women and women alone, as he has different reproductive parts than we do,” Ruck said. Ruck said both parents and students had discussed the problem with Cox Mill administration and the athletic director, only to be “blatantly ignored.” The school’s only response was to make special accommodations for the female students instead of for the trans-identifying student, Ruck said. One of Ruck’s friends, who is on one of the school’s sports teams, said she noticed the male student watching her and other female students changing while in the locker room, according to Ruck. “She stated that this made her feel extremely uncomfortable and that she did not feel safe or respected in that environment,” Ruck told the board. The student was told to take the problems to the principal, who said it was “too political to address, and that any action might be interpreted the wrong way,” according to Ruck. The troubling exchange soon started to spread via social media, attracting an array of disapproving commentary aimed at school administrators: Leadership who promote this are just as mentally ill as the transgenders. Enough is enough. — cultural.ist (@cultural_ist) April 26, 2026 "Go elsewhere if you're uncomfortable" Okay! That's called homeschooling and I have the feeling that the principal won't be happy when students and families make that choice. https://t.co/IwEetyQf2u — Rachel Goldsmith (@RachelBTCsmith) April 25, 2026 Despicable cowards! The girls are more responsible and mature than the school staff adults! https://t.co/OcKv11Zg32 — Ryan Nelson (@ryan_nelso16107) April 26, 2026 The Western Journal added these details: The school’s stonewalling drew a strong condemnation from Alexis Hughes, founder of You Heard Her, an advocacy for female students. “This is not about hate or judging any child, and this is not about asking the board to take a position on personal beliefs or ideology,” Hughes said at the board’s April 13 meeting. “What you are responsible for is ensuring students are safe, that their privacy is protected, and that policies are clear and consistently applied,” she said. Hughes lashed out at the board, saying Ruck “came to you all for help. You heard her. You did nothing. Shame.” Other examples of students standing up to authority in opposition to such transgender bathroom policies have emerged from coast to coast, including this one in California from a couple of years ago: