🚨 Trump Speaking LIVE Right Now After Assassin Tries to KILL Him and Melania | DC in Chaos
Donald Trump addresses the nation following a shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner where suspect Cole Allen was neutralized by Secret Service agents after charging toward the Washington Hilton, injuring one officer. Confirming safety for himself, Melania, and VP JD Vance, Trump labels the attacker a "lone wolf" while rescheduling the event within 30 days. The broadcast highlights concerns over lax security, such as missing metal detectors, framing the incident as a testament to law enforcement's rapid response amidst ongoing threats to his administration. [Automatically generated summary]
Once again, here is the moment, ladies and gentlemen, where Melania Trump and Caroline Levitt in fright look on as you can hear the gunshots in this moment.
Let's jump into some of the breaking news right now.
This is how I want Donald Trump to give every speech.
Hopefully, this is how President Trump gives his next speech at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
Donald Trump will be giving a speech shortly from the White House, he'll be giving remarks from the White House.
Stay down, President Trump and others are evacuated from the correspondence dinner.
Reports of possible shots fired.
There were shots fired.
Brian Stelter live on CNN.
I heard a loud sound.
It was like a plate of dinner meals falling down.
It's like Brian Stelter's dream, as long as they're falling down right into his mouth.
One of the poor waiters, but I have no idea.
Yeah, well, it was gunshots, dude.
Here we go.
Many people have been posting this.
It's something that is certainly concerning.
I left the White House Correspondence Center after having an uneasy feeling.
There was no such security bag checks that I thought was suspicious.
Everybody was ushered in and shoved through the doors to make way for Secret Service dogs.
Tickets were barely looked at, monitoring the situation and praying that everyone is safe.
Here's the Secret Service's response to this, yet again, threat.
On the president's life.
I'm not sure if it is a security failure yet, but it sure seems so, as we just don't have any capacity to keep the president safe, it seems.
Again, again, this is the fifth assassination attempt on President Trump.
We will provide updates as they become available and confirm information.
Our teams are on the ground assessing the situation and investigating.
All protectedes are safe, says the spokesperson for the Secret Service, Anthony Guglielmini, who has remained in his position even though he straight up lied.
About the Butler rally, which is remarkable.
United States Secret Service shooting incident at the White House Correspondence Center.
The U.S. Secret Service, in coordination with the Metropolitan Police Department, is investigating a shooter incident at the Maine Magnetometer screening area at the White House Correspondence Center.
The President and the First Lady are safe and all protected.
One individual is in custody.
The condition of those involved is not yet known.
Law enforcement is actively assessing the situation.
Accounts from those who are there, and also a reminder that we are awaiting the president and his comments from the White House press dais where Donald Trump will be speaking soon.
You can see here a live shot of the press room.
Yeah, this is what we got.
So we got a stand up live shot of the press room.
Please, ladies and gentlemen.
Bear with us again as we're doing this just from a hotel room.
And the press have packed in there.
ALX, pay attention to C SPAN.
I want to get a two minute warning here for all of this.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the shot, the live shot of the White House.
Where you can see Caitlin Collins, Peter Ducey, some of the regulars in their tuxedos doing their stand up hits, every seat filled, awaiting the president.
I cannot believe they're going to continue the dinner after a guy was shot to death.
Scenes from Dystopia.
Are they going to continue the dinner?
I'm not exactly certain.
Some of the commentators at the dinner saying that.
There was very lax security.
I mean, this is what's going to happen next.
What's going to happen next is people are going to say, well, wait a second.
How the, if you had every cabinet secretary there, and I know as a matter of fact, at least half the cabinet was there.
If the Secretary of Energy, Robert Kennedy, Kash Patel was there, Janine Pura was there, Caroline Levitt was there, various members from the White House were all there.
What, like, you know, this is probably the single most high profile dinner in Washington.
All year long, and somebody was able to charge it with a firearm.
How did somebody get a gun into the White House Correspondence Center?
Honestly, if somebody went, there was no security.
You just showed your ticket, and you were able to completely get in.
There was just no pat downs, no metal detectors, nothing going on.
So, really a horrible setup, and I just don't even understand how that was a thing when the United States president was going to speak who has already had assassination attempts on his life.
Yeah, ladies and gentlemen, sorry for the echo there.
Again, we're doing this from a hotel room.
We'll lock it in as we lock in these photos.
These are the photos of the potential assassin who is getting medical treatment right now.
Our best production team is.
Some of them are on site, and everyone is online.
And so we will get you more.
You can see here chaos from law enforcement as they have shot the potential gunman.
Exclusive images after staffer showing the suspected gunman in the 2026 White House Correspondence Center tackled to the ground by Secret Service at the Washington Hilton.
Trauma blanket that is lying over what seems to be an individual that is being guarded, handcuffed, and thrown to the ground.
A male.
No way to really tell much more about it, but he is a male who's been stripped naked and thrown to the ground.
This is your assassin right here.
This is your first images.
There are a ton of unconfirmed reports as to who this individual actually is.
We have no idea.
We don't know.
But then again, we know nothing about.
Thomas Matthew Crooks.
We know very little about Ryan Routh.
Trump will be coming out shortly, ladies and gentlemen.
Here is further confirmation as to what happened.
Shooter walked in the door of Washington Hilton.
Again, this is a very important location because this is the location where Ronald Reagan was shot and nearly murdered, the exact same hotel just feet away from where Trump was tonight.
Attempted to storm a security checkpoint.
The shooter opened fire and hit a Secret Service agent in a protective vest.
So, could have killed the Secret Service agent.
The shooter was apprehended.
The agent is said to be okay.
This will no doubt be a raised debate.
Well, for DHS funding this week.
All right, ladies and gentlemen.
President Trump here.
Potentially coming out at any moment onto the national press dais.
A friend sent me this photo as she walked out at the demonstrators' waving sign that says death to tyrants and death to all of them, just in case you're wondering if the actual attempted shooting would make them feel any shame.
The cowards won't stop, either will this POTUS.
Don't bet against President Trump.
Marco Rubio finding out they're about to resume the dinner anyway.
Of course, there's a Marco Rubio meme for everything.
Video shows the alleged shooter on the ground, Secret Service Washington Hilton, following the shooting of the Correspondents' Dinner.
Let's go ahead and watch this.
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Scooch over to fight the white silver foil at the top of the stairs.
I saw a room that was just totally unified 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 the Secret Service, and they acted very quickly.
And I've just released, for purposes of transparency and clarity, I've ordered it to be put out.
You probably have it by now put out on truth and put out.
On many of the 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 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 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 much more secure.
It's drone proof, it's bulletproof glass.
We need the ballroom.
That's why Secret Service, that's why the military are demanding it.
They've wanted the ballroom for 150 years for lots of different reasons, but today's a little bit different because today we need levels of security that probably nobody's ever seen before.
But everyone owes a tremendous debt of gratitude to the courage of law enforcement, the law enforcement, and working with the D.C. police.
And we just spoke with the mayor.
And when we're finished, the police chief is going to take over and Discuss it also from their viewpoint, but they also performed exactly as they were supposed to.
And you see the attacker in different positions, but you also see the attacker totally subdued and under control.
So, as you know, this is not the first time in the past couple of years that our republic has been attacked by a would be assassin who sought to kill 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.
We really had, again, we had some great work done by law enforcement.
But in light of this evening's events, I ask that all Americans recommit with their hearts in resolving our difference peacefully.
We have to resolve our differences.
I will say you had Republicans, Democrats, Independents, Conservatives, Liberals, and Progressives.
Those words are interchangeable, perhaps, but maybe they're not.
But yet, everybody in that room, big crowd, Record setting crowd.
There was a record setting group of people, and there was a tremendous amount of love and coming together.
I watched, I watched, and I was very, very impressed by that.
But we were, First Lady and I were taken very well care of, very quickly, very quickly, rushed off the stage.
Vice President JD Vance, who's here, was likewise.
Beautifully done.
He was just saying how quickly everybody acted, law enforcement, Secret Service in particular in this case, but law enforcement.
Marco had the same thing.
Pete was there.
Pete didn't want any help.
He didn't want anybody to help him.
He doesn't want anybody to help him, but he did get some, didn't you?
And I think you also said that it was very impressive.
So, with that, I'd like to ask Todd Blanch to come up, say a few words, and tell you it's already underway.
The man has been captured.
They're going to his apartment.
I guess he lives in California.
And he's a sick person, a very sick person.
And we don't want things like this to happen.
I think it's very important that I say, though, and I told the representatives of the evening, they did such a beautiful job.
It was such a beautiful evening.
And again, they're talking about free speech in our Constitution.
That's what it's all about, not just White House correspondence.
It was really based on free speech in our Constitution.
But I said very importantly that.
We'll do it again within the next 30 days and we'll make it bigger and better and even nicer.
So I just want to thank everybody that was involved.
I also want to thank the press, the media.
You've been very responsible in your coverage, I will say.
I've been seeing what's been out.
You've been very responsible.
So, Todd Blench, I'd like to say a few words.
I know we're going to have cash.
And then you're going to go on.
We can ask, I guess we can take a couple of questions.
I want to thank the First Lady for that was a rather traumatic experience for her.
There was a lot of action taking place up there very quickly.
But again, the response time was really incredible.
And we're going to reschedule.
We're going to do it again.
We're not going to let anybody take over our society.
We're not going to cancel things out because we can't do that.
We wanted to stay tonight.
I will tell you, I fought like hell to stay.
But it was protocol.
They said, please, sir, because they didn't know there was a lot of action.
Going on, and they didn't know could there be probably a lone shooter, but we'll find out, we'll find out very quickly.
They have it very well under control.
So, I want to thank everybody very much, and Todd Blanch, please.
Tonight you saw the very worst and the very best of this country.
You saw the very worst by the actions of that coward that the President just talked about.
But you also saw the very best because you saw law enforcement do exactly what they're supposed to do.
And you'll see the videos come out, I expect, very shortly.
And you'll see law enforcement do exactly what we want them to do.
And so I echo what President Trump just said.
That we are extraordinarily grateful and appreciative of the men and women of law enforcement that did their jobs tonight, including one who was injured.
This investigation is ongoing.
I expect you will see charges filed shortly.
The charges should be self evident given the conduct, but as you'll hear, there will be multiple charges around the shooting, around the possession of firearms, and anything else that we can get on this guy.
The investigation is obviously ongoing and just started.
There is federal law enforcement already working on search warrants and doing their job, and I don't want to get ahead of them and don't want to get ahead of the work that they're doing even as we speak.
Director Patel and I were just on the crime scene a short while ago, and everybody in this room should rest assured that the Metropolitan Police Department, the FBI, Secret Service, everybody's on the scene doing their job.
I know that the police chief is going to give an update from the scene as soon as we're finished here, and I obviously will lead the details of what they have learned.
To him, but in the meantime, I just want to thank everybody in this room for the courage.
And I want to thank President Trump for his words, and I promise you justice will be served.
You saw the best resolve of American law enforcement because you, Mr. President, inspire them 24 7, 365.
You give them the resources that they need, and you know, they know that you have their back.
And that is a changing dynamic in this country, and that's why you saw brave Secret Service agents respond immediately, swiftly, subdue and take down the suspect, and safeguard the lives of thousands of individuals at that hotel.
Thanks to our interagency partnership with the Department of Homeland Security and the Metropolitan Police Department, the FBI was rapidly deployed onto the scene, took over the evidence response unit, is examining all the ballistics that were found on scene to include the long gun and the shell casings.
We are conducting witness interviews as we speak.
You will hear from our team on the scene there with the mayor and the head of the FBI field division there.
But please know what the Attorney General has just said reigns no truer.
You saw the very best of America tonight, the very best unite us at a time of uncertainty because we have leadership here with the President and the Vice President that backs law enforcement.
And the men and women that I shook their hands on the scene today could not have been prouder to show up on scene.
And as the Attorney General said, make no mistake, we are conducting witness interviews.
If you have any information, any information whatsoever related to this event, 1-800-CALL-FBI.
1-800-CALL-FBI.
No piece of information is too small.
No piece of information is inadequate.
We will evaluate it all.
We will also be conducting interviews of those that were there.
And if any of those individuals have information, please come forward to law enforcement or the FBI or the Metropolitan Police Department.
We will be examining this individual's background thoroughly.
That process has already started.
And we are going to ensure that he was either a lone wolf actor or anyone else that was responsible.
We will analyze all evidence immediately to make sure that we safeguard this country.
Mr. President, Mr. Vice President, thank you for your leadership.
Attorney General and Homeland Secretary Mullen, thank you for your partnership in law enforcement.
Okay, we'll do a couple and then we go to the chair.
Madam Chairman, I just want to say you did a fantastic job.
What a beautiful evening, and we're going to reschedule.
And after that, it's very tough for her to ask a killer question, right?
But you have done a fantastic job.
Please.
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Mr. President, I appreciate it.
As you mentioned, it all happened so quickly.
And I wonder, especially because unfortunately you have experience with these sorts of threats.
In that moment when you realized there was a threat and service agents were telling us to get down, can you describe what was playing through your mind, how you were feeling in that moment?
It's always shocking when something like this happens.
It happened to me a little bit, and that never changes.
The fact, we were sitting right next to each other, the First Lady on my right, and I heard a noise and sort of thought it was a tray.
I thought it was a tray going down.
I've heard that many times, and it was a pretty loud noise.
And it was from quite far away.
He hadn't breached the area at all.
They really got him.
So it was quite far away, but it was a gun.
And some people really understood that pretty quickly, other people didn't.
I was watching to see what was happening, probably should have gone down even faster.
Melania was very cognizant, I think, of what happened.
I think she knew immediately what happened.
She was saying, that's a bad noise.
And we were whisked away along with other people, but we were really whisked away.
And again, the performance of the Secret Service and the police.
All of the law enforcement, I thought it was really good.
So it was very quick.
There wasn't a lot of time to be thinking because it was a matter of seconds before we were out the door and gone into an area.
We very much, and you wanted to too, we very much wanted to continue it because I don't like to let these sick people, these thugs, these horrible, horrible people change the fabric of our life, change the course of what we do.
So we held out.
You were there.
We held out right till the end, but they didn't want to take a chance, and I understand there was protocol.
But we're going to be doing one hopefully within the next 30 days or sooner.
And I am ready, willing, and able.
And I was all set to really rip it.
And I said to my people, this would be the most inappropriate speech ever made if I said so.
I'll have to save it.
I don't know if I could ever be as rough as I was going to be tonight.
I think I'm going to be probably very nice.
I'll be very boring the next time, but we're going to have a great event.
Well, you know, I've studied assassinations, and I must tell you the most impactful people, the people that do the most, you take a look at the people, Abraham Lincoln, I mean, you go through the people that have gone through this where they got them.
But the people that do the most, the people that make the biggest impact, they're the ones that they go after.
They don't go after the ones that don't do much because they like it that way.
And when you look at the people that have.
Either whether it was an attempt or a successful attempt, they're very impactful people.
Just take a look at the names there, the big names.
And I hate to say I'm honored by that, but I've done a lot.
We've done a lot.
We've taken this country and we were a laughing stock for years, and now we're the hottest country anywhere in the world.
We've changed this country, and there are a lot of people that are not happy about that.
We have great professionals up here and outside that have been working with us.
My impression is he was a lone wolf, whack job.
These are crazy people.
These are crazy people.
And they have to be dealt with.
We had that in the second attempt, as you know, and he's spending life in prison.
Because if you let him out, they'll probably, you know, if he serves 10 years or 15 years, you let him out, he'll probably try it again with somebody else.
They're sick people.
We have a lot of sick people.
But you're going to know, I think very shortly, you're going to know, Todd.
You can see Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, all of them leaving the ballroom as now we have confirmation of who, and this is what they were, this is what these animals were saying outside of the event death to all of them.
And now we have effectively confirmation of who the shooter was.
President Trump saying that you will see the confirmation.
And now we got it.
Team, here we go.
You have the security footage right here.
Sorry, let's resize this window.
Sorry about that.
You have the security footage right here.
Of the actual shooting, of the actual shooting, the assassin sprinting through the security checkpoint and getting taken down.
It is being reported that it is a he, him, communist part time teacher from LA, Cole Allen, who has been ID'd by many sources as the actual shooter and a Kamala Harris donor.
You will come as absolutely no surprise.
So, Cole Allen is the name.
This is the images of Cole Allen handcuffed and on the ground, sprinting towards the actual dinner with a firearm as shooters.
That was fast, Jerogan.
That's right.
And I guess in closing here, we just want to say thank you to our law enforcement.
God bless them.
Watch how quickly they respond here as Cole Allen sprints.
At a pretty remarkable speed through the security checkpoint.
I just know that I am part of the party that doesn't want to kill the other people on the other side.
And it is the people who have stopped debating and who have started shooting that you really need to see as the enemy.
They've killed my friend, Charlie.
They've shot at President Trump multiple times.
Now, five times they've tried to kill President Trump that we know of.
I've had enough.
I've had enough of this.
So I hope you join me in praying for the president, being thankful for this evening, and being smart, and watching your back and keeping your head on a swivel.
I fear that things might get worse before they get better in our current environment.