{"id":72645,"date":"2026-04-25T23:56:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T04:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/we-went-under-the-table-screaming-reactions-from-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T23:56:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T04:56:25","slug":"we-went-under-the-table-screaming-reactions-from-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/we-went-under-the-table-screaming-reactions-from-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We went under the table screaming\u2019: reactions from the White House correspondents\u2019 dinner shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers and reporters in shock after Washington press event abruptly ends following gunshots<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/25\/trump-white-house-correspondents-dinner-what-we-know\">Trump evacuated after shots fired at White House correspondents\u2019 dinner \u2013 what we know<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/apr\/26\/donald-trump-evacuated-from-white-house-correspondents-dinner-after-loud-bangs-heard-live\">White House correspondents\u2019 dinner \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lawmakers and journalists were in shock after a Washington media tradition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/26\/donald-melania-trump-white-houe-correspondents-dinner\">turned<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/25\/trump-white-house-correspondents-dinner-what-we-know\">violent<\/a> on Saturday night, halting the White House correspondents\u2019 dinner while the first course of burrata and greens sat on their plates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thought that some of the plates for the dinner fell, and next thing you know, we all went under the table screaming,\u201d said Jamie Raskin, a Maryland congressman who was among the 2,000 attendees gathered to celebrate press freedom. It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/02\/trump-attend-white-house-correspondents-dinner\">was the<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/25\/donald-trump-white-house-correspondents-dinner\">first time<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> chose to attend the annual Washington event.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/25\/white-house-correspondents-dinner-reactions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers and reporters in shock after Washington press event abruptly ends following gunshots Trump evacuated after shots fired at White House correspondents\u2019 dinner \u2013 what we know White House correspondents\u2019 dinner \u2013 latest updates Lawmakers and journalists were in shock after a Washington media tradition turned violent on Saturday night, halting the White House correspondents\u2019 &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018We went under the table screaming\u2019: reactions from the White House correspondents\u2019 dinner shooting\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/we-went-under-the-table-screaming-reactions-from-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018We went under the table screaming\u2019: reactions from the White House correspondents\u2019 dinner shooting\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}