{"id":72673,"date":"2026-04-26T13:54:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T18:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/shots-rang-out-pandemonium-erupted-how-the-white-house-press-dinner-shooting-unfolded\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T13:54:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T18:54:56","slug":"shots-rang-out-pandemonium-erupted-how-the-white-house-press-dinner-shooting-unfolded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/shots-rang-out-pandemonium-erupted-how-the-white-house-press-dinner-shooting-unfolded\/","title":{"rendered":"Shots rang out, pandemonium erupted: how the White House press dinner shooting unfolded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smiles turned to shock and fear, Trump dived to the ground and guests ducked under tables after loud bangs were heard<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/apr\/26\/white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-latest-donald-trump-suspect-washington-hilton\"><strong>US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald and Melania Trump appeared in good spirits as they settled in on the high table at the White House correspondents\u2019 dinner in Washington, DC on Saturday night, despite the event already being steeped in controversy over the US president being invited when he frequently makes aggressive verbal and legal attacks on the media that covers him.<\/p>\n<p>There was tense anticipation about what kind of speech he would make \u2013 but just about half an hour after arriving, Trump was diving for the floor as something far more dramatic erupted.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/26\/white-house-press-dinner-shooting-how-it-unfolded\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smiles turned to shock and fear, Trump dived to the ground and guests ducked under tables after loud bangs were heard US politics live \u2013 latest updates Donald and Melania Trump appeared in good spirits as they settled in on the high table at the White House correspondents\u2019 dinner in Washington, DC on Saturday night, &#8230; <a title=\"Shots rang out, pandemonium erupted: how the White House press dinner shooting unfolded\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/shots-rang-out-pandemonium-erupted-how-the-white-house-press-dinner-shooting-unfolded\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Shots rang out, pandemonium erupted: how the White House press dinner shooting unfolded\">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-72673","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\/72673","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=72673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}