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<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPresident Donald Trump was somberly contemplative and unusually conciliatory after confronting what he saw as a third attempt on his life in less than two years. He suggested that his personal politics had made him a repeated target, but he also called for unity and bipartisan healing in an increasingly violent world.\u201cIt\u2019s always shocking when something like this happens. Happened to me, a little bit. And that never changes,” a subdued Trump told reporters in a hastily organized news conference at the White House late Saturday.Video above: Alleged WHCD gunman will be arraigned MondayOnly a short time before, a man with guns and knives tried to rush past the security perimeter inside the Washington hotel where the Republican president was about to address the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner.Authorities are trying to determine what happened and why. A suspect was taken into custody and identified as Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, California.Trump said he himself was undoubtedly the target. The presidency is \u201ca dangerous profession,\u201d he said, noting that violence associated with politics had escalated in the U.S. and around the world. \u201dNo country is immune.”Trump suggested it was a sign of how successful his presidency has been.\u201cI\u2019ve studied assassinations, and I must tell you the most impactful people \u2014 the people who do the most, take a look at Abraham Lincoln,\u201d Trump said. He added: \u201cThe people that make the biggest impact, they\u2019re the ones that they go after. They don\u2019t go after the ones that don\u2019t do much.\u201dThe president called for Americans to put aside their differences and unite \u2014 a break from his usual gleefully combative political tack.\u201cWe have to, we have to resolve our differences,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI will say, you had Republicans, Democrats, independents, conservatives, liberals and progressives. Those words are interchangeable, perhaps, but maybe they\u2019re 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.\u201dTrump says he would have changed course and made \u2018a speech of love\u2019The president kept up a similar tone during a Sunday interview with Fox News Channel, calling the dinner \u201can evening where a lot of people got together.\u201d\u201cI saw some Democrats, as we were leaving \u2014 and they were generally hostile \u2014 and last night they were waving to me. Politicians, congressmen, senators. They were waving and saying, \u2018Great going\u2019 and \u2018Hello,\u2019\u201d Trump said. \u201cThe place was just coming together. It was very nice to see.\u201dHe also said he had originally planned to give a speech blistering the media. “I was gonna really rip it last night,\u201d Trump said of his initial plan.But immediately after the incident, when there was some thought that the event would carry on, Trump said he wanted to change course with remarks that were \u201cgonna be much different. It\u2019ll be a speech of love.”\u201cBut I didn\u2019t get a chance to do that,\u201d Trump said. “Probably I was better off, if I didn\u2019t. I don\u2019t know.\u201dThere was still some of his old edge, especially when he spoke about the suspect: \u201cI hated a guy like this \u2014 a sick, bad person \u2014 I hated somebody like that changing the course of our country.\u201dEchoes of what Trump said after 2024 incidentsTrump has called for national unity before, only to quickly pivot.He told Fox News that what happened Saturday proved the necessity of the White House ballroom he’s building. Trump also wrote on social media that the attack \u201cwould never have happened with the Militarily Top Secret Ballroom currently under construction at the White House. It cannot be built fast enough!\u201d And he scoffed at a legal challenge against the construction that led to the demolition of the White House’s East Wing, calling it the \u201cridiculous ballroom lawsuit.\u201dVideo below: Security questions, ballroom push after WHCA dinner shootingAfter the shooting in 2024 during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, when Trump was wounded in the ear and a supporter was killed, the president strode into the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee two days later. That same week, he gave a speech featured a softer and deeply personal message, drawing directly from his brush with death.\u201cThe discord and division in our society must be healed. We must heal it quickly,” Trump said then. \u201cAs Americans, we are bound together by a single fate and a shared destiny. We rise together. Or we fall apart.\u201dSuch calls proved to be very short lived.Trump later in that same speech veered back into his trademark combativeness. He repeated false claims about the 2020 election was stolen from him and assertions that Democratic President Joe Biden had done \u201cunthinkable\u201d damage to the nation.The pattern played out anew in September 2024, when Secret Service agents fired at a man who was armed with a rifle as Trump played golf at his resort club in West Palm Beach, Florida.Steve Witkoff, Trump\u2019s golf partner when the second incident occurred, described Trump’s initial reaction as \u201ccourageous and stoic.\u201d It was not long before Trump was talking constantly about \u201cradical” Democrats and \u201cleft-wing lunatics.\u201d He branded Ryan Routh, the man sentenced to life in prison for trying to kill him, a \u201csick\u201d individual.This time, the first lady was with TrumpActing Attorney General Todd Blanche said increasingly polarizing rhetoric was partly to blame for so many violent incidents around Trump.\u201cThere have been threats against leadership for a very long time. Years and years and years. That\u2019s not new,\u201d Blanche said on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week.\u201d \u201cThere is something unique about the threats against President Trump and his Cabinet that is disgusting.\u201dUnlike the first two incidents, however, the latest one occurred with first lady Melania Trump by his side. The president said on Sunday that his wife \u201cwas doing great.\u201dThat followed the previous evening, when Trump described the first lady as being rattled but also \u201cvery cognizant, I think, of what happened.\u201dVideo below: Acting Attorney General says WHCD suspect likely targeting Trump administration officials Saturday\u201cI think she knew immediately,” Trump said. \u201cShe was saying \u2018It\u2019s a bad noise.\u2019\u201dHe added, \u201cIt was a rather traumatic experience for her.”No change to British monarch’s upcoming American tripBuckingham Palace said Sunday that the U.S. visit by King Charles III will go ahead as planned despite the incident at the correspondents\u2019 dinner.The announcement came after discussions between American and British officials on questions of security. The trip, an intricately planned affair, is meant to showcase the strength of the trans-Atlantic \u201cspecial relationship.\u2019\u2019\u201cFollowing discussions on both sides of the Atlantic through the day, and acting on advice of government, we can confirm the state visit by their majesties will proceed as planned,\u2033 Buckingham Palace said in a statement. \u201cThe king and queen are most grateful to all those who have worked at pace to ensure this remains the case and are looking forward to the visit getting underway tomorrow.\u2019\u2019Charles and Queen Camilla are scheduled to begin their four-day trip on Monday, when they will have tea with the president and first lady Melania Trump.Trump told Fox News Channel’s \u201cThe Sunday Briefing\u201d that “we\u2019re going to have a great time and he represents his nation like nobody else can do it.\u2019\u2019Associated Press writer Danica Kirka in London contributed to this report.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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President Donald Trump was somberly contemplative and unusually conciliatory after confronting what he saw as a third attempt on his life in less than two years. He suggested that his personal politics had made him a repeated target, but he also called for unity and bipartisan healing in an increasingly violent world.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s always shocking when something like this happens. Happened to me, a little bit. And that never changes,” a subdued Trump told reporters in a hastily organized news conference at the White House late Saturday.<\/p>\n
Video above: Alleged WHCD gunman will be arraigned Monday<\/p>\n
Only a short time before, a man with guns and knives tried to rush past the security perimeter inside the Washington hotel where the Republican president was about to address the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner.<\/p>\n
Authorities are trying to determine what happened and why. A suspect was taken into custody and identified as Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, California.<\/p>\n
Trump said he himself was undoubtedly the target. The presidency is \u201ca dangerous profession,\u201d he said, noting that violence associated with politics had escalated in the U.S. and around the world. \u201dNo country is immune.”<\/p>\n
Trump suggested it was a sign of how successful his presidency has been.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve studied assassinations, and I must tell you the most impactful people \u2014 the people who do the most, take a look at Abraham Lincoln,\u201d Trump said. He added: \u201cThe people that make the biggest impact, they\u2019re the ones that they go after. They don\u2019t go after the ones that don\u2019t do much.\u201d<\/p>\n
The president called for Americans to put aside their differences and unite \u2014 a break from his usual gleefully combative political tack.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to, we have to resolve our differences,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI will say, you had Republicans, Democrats, independents, conservatives, liberals and progressives. Those words are interchangeable, perhaps, but maybe they\u2019re 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump says he would have changed course and made \u2018a speech of love\u2019<\/p>\n
The president kept up a similar tone during a Sunday interview with Fox News Channel, calling the dinner \u201can evening where a lot of people got together.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI saw some Democrats, as we were leaving \u2014 and they were generally hostile \u2014 and last night they were waving to me. Politicians, congressmen, senators. They were waving and saying, \u2018Great going\u2019 and \u2018Hello,\u2019\u201d Trump said. \u201cThe place was just coming together. It was very nice to see.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPresident Donald Trump speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House after an unspecified threat at the annual White House Correspondents\u2019 Association Dinner in Washington, Saturday, April 25, 2026.<\/p>\n
He also said he had originally planned to give a speech blistering the media. “I was gonna really rip it last night,\u201d Trump said of his initial plan.<\/p>\n
But immediately after the incident, when there was some thought that the event would carry on, Trump said he wanted to change course with remarks that were \u201cgonna be much different. It\u2019ll be a speech of love.”<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I didn\u2019t get a chance to do that,\u201d Trump said. “Probably I was better off, if I didn\u2019t. I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
There was still some of his old edge, especially when he spoke about the suspect: \u201cI hated a guy like this \u2014 a sick, bad person \u2014 I hated somebody like that changing the course of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n
Echoes of what Trump said after 2024 incidents<\/p>\n
Trump has called for national unity before, only to quickly pivot.<\/p>\n
He told Fox News that what happened Saturday proved the necessity of the White House ballroom he’s building. Trump also wrote on social media that the attack \u201cwould never have happened with the Militarily Top Secret Ballroom currently under construction at the White House. It cannot be built fast enough!\u201d And he scoffed at a legal challenge against the construction that led to the demolition of the White House’s East Wing, calling it the \u201cridiculous ballroom lawsuit.\u201d<\/p>\n
Video below: Security questions, ballroom push after WHCA dinner shooting<\/p>\n
After the shooting in 2024 during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, when Trump was wounded in the ear and a supporter was killed, the president strode into the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee two days later. That same week, he gave a speech featured a softer and deeply personal message, drawing directly from his brush with death.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe discord and division in our society must be healed. We must heal it quickly,” Trump said then. \u201cAs Americans, we are bound together by a single fate and a shared destiny. We rise together. Or we fall apart.\u201d<\/p>\n
Such calls proved to be very short lived.<\/p>\n
Trump later in that same speech veered back into his trademark combativeness. He repeated false claims about the 2020 election was stolen from him and assertions that Democratic President Joe Biden had done \u201cunthinkable\u201d damage to the nation.<\/p>\n
The pattern played out anew in September 2024, when Secret Service agents fired at a man who was armed with a rifle as Trump played golf at his resort club in West Palm Beach, Florida.<\/p>\n
Steve Witkoff, Trump\u2019s golf partner when the second incident occurred, described Trump’s initial reaction as \u201ccourageous and stoic.\u201d It was not long before Trump was talking constantly about \u201cradical” Democrats and \u201cleft-wing lunatics.\u201d He branded Ryan Routh, the man sentenced to life in prison for trying to kill him, a \u201csick\u201d individual.<\/p>\n
This time, the first lady was with Trump<\/p>\n
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said increasingly polarizing rhetoric was partly to blame for so many violent incidents around Trump.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere have been threats against leadership for a very long time. Years and years and years. That\u2019s not new,\u201d Blanche said on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week.\u201d \u201cThere is something unique about the threats against President Trump and his Cabinet that is disgusting.\u201d<\/p>\n
Unlike the first two incidents, however, the latest one occurred with first lady Melania Trump by his side. The president said on Sunday that his wife \u201cwas doing great.\u201d<\/p>\n
That followed the previous evening, when Trump described the first lady as being rattled but also \u201cvery cognizant, I think, of what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
Video below: Acting Attorney General says WHCD suspect likely targeting Trump administration officials Saturday<\/p>\n
\u201cI think she knew immediately,” Trump said. \u201cShe was saying \u2018It\u2019s a bad noise.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
He added, \u201cIt was a rather traumatic experience for her.”<\/p>\n
No change to British monarch’s upcoming American trip<\/p>\n
Buckingham Palace said Sunday that the U.S. visit by King Charles III will go ahead as planned despite the incident at the correspondents\u2019 dinner.<\/p>\n
The announcement came after discussions between American and British officials on questions of security. The trip, an intricately planned affair, is meant to showcase the strength of the trans-Atlantic \u201cspecial relationship.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cFollowing discussions on both sides of the Atlantic through the day, and acting on advice of government, we can confirm the state visit by their majesties will proceed as planned,\u2033 Buckingham Palace said in a statement. \u201cThe king and queen are most grateful to all those who have worked at pace to ensure this remains the case and are looking forward to the visit getting underway tomorrow.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Charles and Queen Camilla are scheduled to begin their four-day trip on Monday, when they will have tea with the president and first lady Melania Trump.<\/p>\n
Trump told Fox News Channel’s \u201cThe Sunday Briefing\u201d that “we\u2019re going to have a great time and he represents his nation like nobody else can do it.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Associated Press writer Danica Kirka in London contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump was somberly contemplative and unusually conciliatory after confronting what he saw as a third attempt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28841,28858,28835,486,12,28490,17673,28857,12103,2926,28800,10,349,65,11,64,315,11114,28856,3998,28112,512],"class_list":{"0":"post-45828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-donald-trump","8":"tag-association-dinner","9":"tag-bipartisan-healing","10":"tag-correspondents-dinner","11":"tag-democrats","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-first-lady","14":"tag-fox-news-channel","15":"tag-impactful-people","16":"tag-incident","17":"tag-man","18":"tag-mpnd","19":"tag-potus","20":"tag-president","21":"tag-president-donald-trump","22":"tag-president-of-the-united-states","23":"tag-president-trump","24":"tag-speech","25":"tag-sunday","26":"tag-trump-call","27":"tag-video","28":"tag-white-house-correspondents","29":"tag-year"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116475742366962260","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}