President Donald Trump was evacuated from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner after multiple gunshots were heard in the ballroom.
One officer was shot, but he was “saved by the fact that he was wearing obviously a very good bulletproof vest,” Trump later told reporters at the White House.
The suspected shooter was identified later Saturday as Cole Allen of Torrance, California, a former senior law enforcement official briefed on the matter told MS NOW.
I’m betting this was all staged. Either that or Iran is trying to get him.
*Edit: Alternative Idea – what if this was one of his cultists who came to kill off the “fake news” media?
I find it disheartening how instantaneously people will run with a half baked conspiracy theory that at best is typically “somewhat possible”.
Besides the fact that we should actually want evidence to believe something, trump doesn’t really seem to think ahead, so yeah I don’t think he’s repeatedly staged his own assassination attempts.
Trump doesn’t, but Miller does.
Lets see.
First dinner he’s ever attended.
white house leaks hes planning some big mic drop event.
several attendees have made statements about security being less than previous dinners. (Weird since its first time trumps attended, huh?)
Reporter tries to report on fox news about trump insiders telling her to be safe (before things even go down) and gets cut off mid sentance.
Someone still manages to get a gun through and gets juuuuust close enough to be a concern without being a threat.
A magically perfect opportunity to go on afterwards and justify the big golden ballroom he wants so bad.
Yeah, totally nothing to see here. Just some harmless coincidences, stop thinking so hard with your “conspiracies” and “theories”, libtards. /s
WOW. Yeah my first thought was staging too.
Does he think ahead? Of course not. But is this something some insecure 2-bit tinpot dictator would do in an attempt to self-legitimize? Well then of course he’s gonna copy that.
Hes also a creature of habit and repeats things for comfort, especially if it worked the first time (even if it never worked again afterwards, prime example being Venezuela, which lead to the quagmire of Iran, which isnt even resolved and already planning to attack cuba next)
Don’t forget the fully kitted out Call of Duty cosplayers that filed out in front shortly after training their AR’s over the crowd.
Yeah let’s not let pesky things like “what in fuck good would this do for trump?” Get in the way of throwing spaghetti at the wall!
Be skeptical. Jesus Christ people.
Yeah, what would a guy who had a surge in popularity after a previous assassination attempt, think he could possibly get from another assassination attempt at a time when his poll numbers are not only historic low for him, but for the office of the presidency in general, with midterm elections coming up that have republicans predicted to lose big, probably to more aggressive leftists/liberals who will absolutely impeach him and 25th amendment him afterwards.
Such a mystery what he could gain from it and its convenient timing.
Be skeptical. It’s not hard.
They are being skeptical… 🤨 Skeptical that this was a real assassination attempt.
I agree it’s more likely to have not been staged (people are actually pissed at the piece of shit), but what the fuck are you even trying to say here?
There’s a middle ground: NSA/Palantir identify a nearly harmless threat that a dude is googling what hotel it’s at and buys a 22 handgun with no firearm experience. If you’re Trump, do you arrest him at the airport or let him make a scene?
Depends; do you, the one who discovered this, like Trump? Maybe they just let things happen cuz they want him dead, too. It’s just as plausible and has the same evidence of “I just thought of it.”
I’m saying they came up with a theory and then just believed it straight out. That’s not being skeptical, it’s just called being a moron.
I’m skeptical of your understanding of the word skeptical.
Questioning the official story is being skeptical.
Come on… I agree that it’s possible, maybe even plausible, that this was staged, but you can’t honestly claim to be sceptical if you think the most likely situation here was that this was staged when you have no hard evidence at all. I’m not saying it wasn’t staged, I’m saying that the sceptical approach is to recognise that anything coming out of the White House is a half-truth at best, that there is exists a motive for staging this, and that it could be staged. At this point we have nowhere near enough evidence to conclude either way.
Besides, there are plenty of people that want trump dead. I don’t see it as unlikely that one of them decided to give it a shot here.
I see people like the one you replied to as taking it a step further than “thinking” a flimsy story is true. They literally act like they “know” it’s true and anyone who doesn’t is a sheep. They’re stupider than maga, to be honest
“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears”
“username checks out” has been your tag on my phone since months ago. It is still appropriate.
Well thats creepy that you’ve been stalking me for that long.
but it fits with the kind of loser who cant mount a valid response outside of the obvious low hanging fruit of “lol ur usarnaem”
Yes “being skeptical” = “instantly making shit up with little to no facts”
This is one of those cases where I realize people on Lemmy aren’t smarter than the average person. The downvotes can keep on coming because you all haven’t proven shit and your quickness to believe something random just because it’s not been admitted to reflect poorly on you, not me.
Tell the class which one of my points is made up and not real.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-plans-for-mic-drop-media-confrontation-at-white-house-correspondents-association-dinner-are-leaked/
https://www.businessinsider.com/attendee-describes-low-security-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner-2026-4?op=1
https://www.the-express.com/entertainment/tv/205784/karoline-leavitt-husband-warning-attack
https://abcnews.com/US/live-updates/whca-dinner-shooting-live-updates-suspect-armed-multiple/?id=132390623
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-turns-shooting-into-shameless-plug-for-new-white-house-ballroom/ar-AA21KatF
Links to prove every point I made.
So go on.
Tell us which one is made up and is imaginary.
Or are you gonna try and desperately shift your goal posts now.
You and Alex Jones would get along.
These people are so incredibly fucking stupid. It’s been wild watching the people I agree with slowly start to sound like the Rush-Limbaugh-guzzling halfwits I grew up with. Even if they’re right in the end, their reasons for arriving at this conclusion are just impossibly childish.
Yeah they seem to think the coward would risk his life for a flimsy attempt at some brownie points with his base, and they don’t even seem to entertain the idea he didn’t
Yeah, at this point it’s devolved into some weird liberal purity test for the less serious people. I hate it.
Yeah you’re right to compare them to qanon. I’m being treated like I “believe the official story” and that I’m a “sheep” simply for stating the obvious fact that nothing conclusive about this theory exists.
I find starting wars and raping kids disheartening. I find it equally disheartening that it’s plausible someone would try to take attention away from those things by stirring up some shit.
… So I’m now an accomplice to Epstein because I… Don’t believe something without a shred of evidence?
Yeah, dunno what you are talking about, but I just can’t help but feel skeptical at this point, but I suppose it’s totally acceptable to not feel skeptical as well.
Skeptical means you haven’t reached a conclusion. Apparently I’m an idiot and a sheep for not reaching a conclusion. It’s the people who have done so who are the real skeptics!
yes, that’s exactly what they said.
Not sure if sarcasm…
Blue Anon has taken over. Zero critical thought, all confirmation bias.
You’re talking about the moron I responded to, right?
Correct. Apparently our side is as full of morons as the populist right. We’re cooked.