{"id":57401,"date":"2026-07-26T10:18:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T10:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/inside-the-room-as-trump-reattempts-press-dinner\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T10:18:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T10:18:38","slug":"inside-the-room-as-trump-reattempts-press-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/inside-the-room-as-trump-reattempts-press-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the room as Trump reattempts press dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">US President Donald Trump hosted a second attempt of the White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/cgqkq18qqeeo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">the first event in April<\/a> was interrupted by a gunman opening fire near a security checkpoint. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A federal agent was hit, but was saved by his bullet-proof vest. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 31-year-old suspect, Cole Tomas Allen, was charged with attempting to assassinate the president. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The event, designed to celebrate press freedom, was attended by hundreds of journalists. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC&#8217;s Bernd Debusmann Jr was in attendance and shared his account of how the evening unfolded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/cm2gjrn0rvqo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump hosted a second attempt of the White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner after the first event in April was interrupted by a gunman opening fire near a security checkpoint. A federal agent was hit, but was saved by his bullet-proof vest. The 31-year-old suspect, Cole Tomas Allen, was charged with attempting to assassinate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57403,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57401\/revisions\/57403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}