{"id":98395,"date":"2026-04-26T01:05:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/trump-evacuated-after-hearing-gunshots-during-white-house-correspondents-dinner\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T01:06:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:06:55","slug":"trump-evacuated-after-hearing-gunshots-during-white-house-correspondents-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/trump-evacuated-after-hearing-gunshots-during-white-house-correspondents-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump evacuated after hearing gunshots during White House correspondents dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"RegularArticle-ArticleBody-5\" data-module=\"ArticleBody\" data-test=\"articleBody-2\" data-analytics=\"RegularArticle-articleBody-5-2\"><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\" style=\"top:0;left:0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"InlineImage-imageEmbed\" id=\"ArticleBody-InlineImage-108297298\" data-test=\"InlineImage\">\n<div class=\"InlineImage-wrapper\">\n<div>\n<p>(L-R) Melania Trump and U.S. President Donald Trump attend the White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner hosted by mentalist Oz Perlman at the Washington Hilton on April 25, 2026 in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Mazur | Getty Images Entertainment | getty images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p>President Donald Trump was escorted out of the White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner Saturday night after multiple gunshots were heard in the ballroom.<\/p>\n<p>At least five gunshots were heard at the event held at the Washington Hilton Hotel. Several minutes after Weija Jiang, president of the White House Correspondents&#8217; Association, delivered remarks, the ballroom began to buzz as attendees ate their first courses.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who was sitting at the front of the ballroom next to First Lady Melania Trump, was immediately surrounded by guards, while many attendees hid under their tables.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is breaking news. Please refresh for updates.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ArticleBody-googlePreferredSourceContainer\" data-module=\"GooglePreferredSource\" data-id=\"RegularArticle-GooglePreferredSource-5\">Choose CNBC as your favorite source on Google and never miss a moment of the most trusted name in business news.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(L-R) Melania Trump and U.S. President Donald Trump attend the White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner hosted by mentalist Oz Perlman at the Washington Hilton on April 25, 2026 in Washington, DC. Kevin Mazur | Getty Images Entertainment | getty images President Donald Trump was escorted out of the White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner Saturday night after multiple<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[25608,5845,7199,21473,2875,496,548,1241],"class_list":{"0":"post-98395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bible-news","8":"tag-correspondents","9":"tag-dinner","10":"tag-evacuated","11":"tag-gunshots","12":"tag-hearing","13":"tag-house","14":"tag-trump","15":"tag-white"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98397,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98395\/revisions\/98397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}