{"id":72650,"date":"2026-04-26T01:55:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T06:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/trump-thought-sound-of-gunman-at-journalists-dinner-was-tray-falling\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T01:55:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T06:55:33","slug":"trump-thought-sound-of-gunman-at-journalists-dinner-was-tray-falling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/trump-thought-sound-of-gunman-at-journalists-dinner-was-tray-falling\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump thought sound of gunman at journalists\u2019 dinner was tray falling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President says incident, in which Secret Service agent was saved by bulletproof vest, was \u2018totally shocking to me\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\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 shooting \u2013 follow live<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump said on Saturday night he initially thought that the sound of a gunman charging a security checkpoint at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner was a tray falling, in his first remarks about what was going through his mind as the incident unfolded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cActually, it was totally shocking to me, and that never changes,\u201d Trump said, appearing to refer to the assassination attempt against him at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and a second incident on his golf course in Florida during the 2024 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/26\/donald-trump-correspondents-dinner-shooting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President says incident, in which Secret Service agent was saved by bulletproof vest, was \u2018totally shocking to me\u2019 White House correspondents\u2019 dinner shooting \u2013 follow live Donald Trump said on Saturday night he initially thought that the sound of a gunman charging a security checkpoint at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner was a tray &#8230; <a title=\"Trump thought sound of gunman at journalists\u2019 dinner was tray falling\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/trump-thought-sound-of-gunman-at-journalists-dinner-was-tray-falling\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump thought sound of gunman at journalists\u2019 dinner was tray falling\">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-72650","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\/72650","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=72650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}