{"id":16507,"date":"2026-07-25T06:29:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T01:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=16507"},"modified":"2026-07-25T06:29:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T01:29:19","slug":"trump-attending-white-house-correspondents-dinner-redo-after-april-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=16507","title":{"rendered":"Trump attending White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner redo after April attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Washington <\/em>\u2014 President Trump and members of the press corps are attending take two of the White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner on Friday night, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/live-updates\/trump-evacuated-white-house-correspondents-dinner-security-incident\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">April&#8217;s dinner<\/a> was upended when an armed assailant rushed through a security checkpoint and the U.S. Secret Service opened fire on the gunman.<\/p>\n<p>Three months after the suspect was stopped outside the Washington Hilton&#8217;s ballroom, Mr. Trump is scheduled to speak at the White House Correspondents&#8217; Association&#8217;s do-over of the dinner at a different Washington hotel. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the president &#8220;looks forward to finishing what he started before a despicable assassination attempt derailed the original event back in April,&#8221; and promised the evening will be &#8220;very entertaining and memorable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Secret Service officials <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/secret-service-threat-levels-rescheduled-white-house-correspondents-dinner\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">have warned<\/a><\/span> that nationwide threats have reached an unprecedented level, with agents opening roughly 10,000 protective intelligence cases since January \u2014 a nearly 40% increase from the same period last year. The Secret Service has been preparing for the makeup dinner, and Secret Service Director Sean Curran told reporters in a briefing Wednesday that every venue is reevaluated before every presidential visit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will always evaluate every site, and right now we have an advance team there, and they will take back, and they will set up a plan to set that site up for success, just like we did at the White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner at the Hilton,&#8221; Curran said. &#8220;That is a success.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Friday night, the White House Correspondents&#8217; Association presented an award for exceptional service to the Secret Service officer who was struck in his protective vest at the April dinner, along with the entire Washington Hilton staff.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do think their bravery should be recognized, and I&#8217;m really looking forward to giving out those two awards,&#8221; said Weijia Jiang, the association&#8217;s most recent past president and CBS News&#8217; senior White House correspondent. Jiang said Friday night&#8217;s program is &#8220;very much the same&#8221; as April&#8217;s, although the size will be smaller.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are enhanced security measures,&#8221; Jiang <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cspan\/status\/2080415396906086635\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told C-SPAN<\/a>. &#8220;We have a private security firm that has worked closely with Secret Service. There are new measures that every single dinner guest has to take.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Attendees will have to present a unique QR code with a government-issued photo ID to get through ticketing, and go through layers of security to enter the ballroom, she said. The association worked extensively with the Secret Service.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was incredibly important to have the safety of our guests to be the top priority,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n<p>                                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/nicole-sganga\/\" class=\"byline__author__link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Nicole  Sganga<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.\n    <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation  \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"component__item-recirc-block\">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">Go deeper with The Free Press<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__tags\">\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington \u2014 President Trump and members of the press corps are attending take two of the White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner on Friday night, after April&#8217;s dinner was upended when an armed assailant rushed through a security checkpoint and the U.S. Secret Service opened fire on the gunman. 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