{"id":49593,"date":"2026-04-26T01:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/trump-evacuated-from-white-house-correspondents-dinner\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T01:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:31:11","slug":"trump-evacuated-from-white-house-correspondents-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/trump-evacuated-from-white-house-correspondents-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump evacuated from White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69ed5a88a98bc8fdc096ecf0?format=jpeg\" alt=\"President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents&#039; Dinner\"\/><figcaption>President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents&#039; Dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Mandel NGAN \/ AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>President Donald Trump was evacuated from Saturday&#039;s White House Correspondents&#039; Dinner.<\/li>\n<li>The nature of the security emergency was not immediately clear.<\/li>\n<li>Attendees of the event reported hearing loud booms and a &quot;commotion&quot; in the room.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>President Donald Trump was evacuated from the White House Correspondents&#039; Dinner following a security incident.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear what occurred; however, event attendees who spoke to CSPAN said there were loud &quot;booms&quot; and a &quot;commotion&quot; in the room before the president was evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>A Politico reporter at the dinner heard several loud bangs and saw Secret Service agents rush the stage to secure the president.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Quite an evening in D.C. Secret Service and Law Enforcement did a fantastic job,&quot; Trump wrote in a Truth Social post after the incident. &quot;They acted quickly and bravely. The shooter has been apprehended, and I have recommended that we &quot;LET THE SHOW GO ON&quot; 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&#039;ll just, plain, have to do it again.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>CBS senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang took the stage shortly after the incident to say the night&#039;s programming would continue.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#039;s attendance at Saturday&#039;s event marked his first time appearing as president. Though he appeared as a private citizen and media personality in 2011 and 2015, he notably boycotted the White House Correspondents&#039; Dinner during his first term.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents&#039; Dinner. Mandel NGAN \/ AFP via Getty Images President Donald Trump was evacuated from Saturday&#039;s White House Correspondents&#039; Dinner. The nature of the security emergency was not immediately clear. Attendees of the event reported hearing loud booms and a &quot;commotion&quot; in the room. President Donald Trump was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}