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The famed White House Correspondents’ Dinner has officially been rescheduled, weeks after an alleged assassination attempt interrupted the first event this spring.
“In a sign of Strength and Fortitude, it was just announced that The White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which violently ended rather abruptly on April 25th, will be rescheduled to July 24th,” President Donald Trump noted in a statement on Tuesday.
The alleged gunman who disrupted April’s event was identified as Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of California. An exchange of gunfire led to a flurry of fear and an immediate evacuation of high-level officials attending the dinner in April, including President Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, and other key members of the White House Cabinet.
President Trump highlighted the importance of rescheduling the dinner.
“This announcement is a very good thing in that we cannot allow Lunatics to change our way of life, or even its scheduling,” he said. “I was asked to be there, and speak, by Weijia Jiang, President of The White House Correspondents’ Association, and have accepted.”
WHCA President Weijia Jiang, to whom the president was referring in his statement, wrote on X, “Our first dinner is part of history, as will be the WHCA’s response. We will not allow an act of violence to have the last word, especially during a year when we are reflecting on America 250 and everything we stand for.”
President Trump suggested that he may relax some of his prepared statements for the WHCD in July, in light of the events of April. “I don’t know whether or not I will give the same rather nasty statements, at least as it concerns certain people, but we will soon find out. In any event, it will be a ‘HOT’ ticket!” he remarked.
The event, according to President Trump, will be held at the Waldorf Astoria in Washington, D.C., a hotel that was once owned by the president and billed as the Trump International Hotel.
