Trump turns the WHCD shooting into a pitch for the White House ballroom

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. ‘This event would never have happened with the Militarily Top Secret Ballroom,’ he wrote on Truth Social. ‘This event would never have happened with the Militarily Top Secret Ballroom,’ he wrote on Truth Social. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Within hours of an armed gunman’s attempt to enter the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, attended by top administration officials and hundreds of journalists, President Donald Trump did what he does best: use the assassination attempt to defend his ballroom project. During a White House press conference just hours after he and several cabinet members were evacuated, Trump told reporters that the Washington Hilton, the hotel where the WHCD historically takes place, was “not a particularly secure building. And I didn’t want to say this, but this is why we have to have all of the attributes of what we’re planning at the White House. It’s actually a larger room and it’s much more secure.” The morning after the alleged