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How did someone get a weapon into the White House Correspondents’ Dinner? #shorts92%
4/26/2026, 9:48:00 PM
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How did someone get a weapon into the White House Correspondents’ Dinner? #shorts
How does someone get a weapon into the White House correspondents dinner?
This
is my fourth time now going to DC for correspondents dinner weekend.
So, let me tell you how it works.
So, the dinner happens at the Washington Hilton Hotel.
Um, there's always a big perimeter around the hotel.
Like, a lot of those roads are closed off.
There's always protesters outside.
But yesterday, around the time people start arriving for like the pre-parties, um, the weather was really garbage.
It was pouring rain and so people were running several blocks in ball gowns and suits holding umbrellas.
Um, you know, we were just like drenched and it was wet and cold outside.
So, I will say there were attendants there um that were checking that you had an invitation before they let you through uh to get inside the Hilton Hotel.
But like I saw a bunch of people sort of just like flashing it and and walking and like no one was stopping them to really like have full eyes on it.
it.
And then once you're in, you're in.
um like you're in the lobby of the Hilton Hotel during this massive event.
There are hundreds of journalists of politicians um of diplomats there and there's also just like regular hotel guests.
I went to the bathroom at one point and um there was like a woman who was just staying at the hotel in regular clothes um and she complimented my dress and I was like, "Oh yeah, I forgot there's like real people just like here."
So, anyways, there's like a bunch of um pre-parties before the actual dinner, and then before you get to the dinner, there is an actual security checkpoint that you would go through.
That's the checkpoint that the gunman stormed.
And that's pretty much like the only thing separating an outsider from the president.
Truly a wild night.
And it did feel like security could have been tighter.
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