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“Evan Hill @evanhill@journa.host A Secret Service officer fired four times at Cole Allen, and in the direction of other security personnel, as he charged a security checkpoint, a Post review of surveillance footage has found. There was no indication on the footage that Allen fired his weapon,” https://xcancel.com/evanhill/status/2049507404413370841#m #ColeAllen #Trump #WHCD #WHCD2026

Reporting: “Surveillance footage reviewed by The Washington Post shows that Cole Tomas Allen appeared to raise his shotgun in the direction of a Secret Service officer who then fired the only shots that are clearly visible in the video from a security checkpoint outside Saturday’s White House correspondents’ dinner.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/04/29/white-house-correspondents-dinner-video-new/#ColeAllen #Trump #WHCD #WHCD2026

Best description of the White House Correspondents Dinner ever. #WHCD

I was going to watch the #WHCD but I decided to watch a botfly compilation instead because it was only half as gross.

@thedailybeast.bsky.social This Is What Happens After Trump’s Public Meltdown | Inside Trump's Head 🍊🧠🤴 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qnUn8Wa-IQ #Trump #WHCD #RatPack sensibility #Politics #Satire #CNN {ed: But does the CMDR & Chief think he bombed?} 7/25/26

I don't care about how Trump insulted the press at the #WHCD. I DO care about how the Trump admin's DOJ really attacks journalists. @emptywheel@mastodon.social talked to @nicolesandler@mstdn.social about the the indictment of Journalist Georgia Fort. She asked "Did Harmeet Dhillon's people give the grand jury fabricated info to get an indictment?" We'll find out soon since the judge just gave Fort's defense team access to the Grand Jury transcript. Full show here: https://www.youtube.com/live/G6xg9hwDNis?si=PjbzdvPAk532S6BH&t=1099 @GottaLaff@mstdn.social @LOLGOP

All you need to know about the #WHCD in 1 photo from the event. #TrumpDictatorship #TrumpRegime #USPol #auspol

LIVE: White House Correspondents' Dinner' #Politics #WHCD 🤩 #Trump had officially looney tunes 🤪 gone off the rails 📺 👇 https://www.youtube.com/live/4QCEFn5fpBE?si=vga41YYto4e98E03 7/24/36

50 minutes in and he's still going #USPol #WHCD

"A close reading of the Justice Department’s charges Monday afternoon against 31-year-old Cole Allen hint that he didn’t fire any weapon at all. In fact, it’s not clear from what we know that this was a 'shooting' at all. ... Here is what to me is a more likely scenario than what the government is telling us so far:" ~ Garrett M. Graff #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner #WHCD #violence #shooting #DOJ #ColeAllen /1

"Nobody in the history of American politics has weaponized incidents of violent crime to turn them into political capital like Donald Trump. His campaign’s use of the incident in Butler, PA as well as the Laken Riley murder in sick and perverse ways were instrumental in returning him to the presidency." ~ Ron Filipkowski #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner #WHCD #Trump #Republicans #violence #media #ballroom /1

"Now he’s is using the incident at the WHCA dinner to justify his deeply unpopular ballroom monstrosity. Trump, members of his admin, Republican members of Congress, as well as right-wing TV hosts, podcasters and influencers went on a full-court propaganda blitz today to use the latest incident to justify not only construction of the ballroom, but even a demand to have taxpayers now foot the bill." #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner #WHCD #Trump #Republicans #violence #media #ballroom /2

"He lies. And the press corps accepts it. This dynamic is a part of strategy that's gotten clearer since Saturday. Instead of using the shock of violence to bridge divisions between Americans, the president is enlisting the press corps in creating a reality with which to divide us further." ~ John Stoehr #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner #WHCD #Trump #Republicans #violence #media #ballroom /3

"The Republicans love to gaslight the public into believing that the Democrats are inciting violence when they tell the truth about Trump. In fact, it's the president who is the greatest source of incitement. That his life has been threatened three times should be proof enough." #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner #WHCD #Trump #Republicans #violence #media #ballroom /4

"Yet the press corps plays along, accepting Trump's claims uncritically – he was told to get down when he actually fell; Cole Allen is ant-Christian when he is actually deeply Christian – as if the constant mainlining of deceit into the body politic is not going to bring tensions to an even higher boil." #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner #WHCD #Trump #Republicans #violence #media #ballroom /5

And while we're at it, who incited all those attacks on Obama? 🤔 Be best! #Trump #WHCD

Shots fired at the WHCD? I don’t give a fvck. The same Republicans who are clutching their pearls about shots being fired don’t care that 40,000 Americans die of gun violence each year. Not one of them. #whcd #republicans #gunviolence #MAGA #trump #nra #trump #iran #news #staged

"For a decade I have been following the twists and turns of Donald Trump’s America with the privilege of journalistic distance. On Saturday night I felt the darkness come viscerally close. ... The past 10 years have witnessed a shooting at a congressional baseball practice, a deadly white supremacist march in Charlottesville," (continued in /2) ~ David Smith #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media /1

(continued from /1) "the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol and the killings of the former Minnesota house speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk. Political violence is rampant and on Saturday, in a fancy Washington ballroom, Trump and the media glimpsed the edge of the abyss." #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media /2

"My first thought wasn’t shock. It was recognition. Because I had spent the better part of this Saturday documenting exactly how we arrived at a place where something like this could feel — in the most sick and twisted way imaginable — not just possible but almost inevitable." ~ Kristoffer Ealy #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media /3