Trump heads back to correspondents’ dinner months after gunfire forced evacuation

President Donald Trump returned to the rescheduled White House Correspondents' Association dinner Friday night, delivering a rambling, hour-long speech.

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Call it White House Dinner 2.0, or Take Two, or, in Trump's own words, a "HOT ticket." The big unknown is whether Trump will bring the fighting words against the press he'd planned to deliver in April — before the event descended into chaos when a gunman stormed a security checkpoint, forcing an evacuation of the room.

The White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner with President Donald Trump that was disrupted earlier this year when a gunman charged past Secret Service agents toward the event is scheduled to be re-held in a different, smaller and more secure venue Friday night.

President Trump will deliver remarks Friday evening at the do-over White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner, three months after the first event was disrupted by a gunman looking to target Trump and his administration officials. The president’s speech, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, will be “unifying but vicious.” The WHCA and Secret…

Karoline Leavitt says President Trump's rescheduled White House Correspondents' Dinner speech will be "unifying yet vicious" and "entertaining."

The rescheduled event comes months after the dinner was abruptly cut short by a shooting and security scare.

President Donald Trump will cut a defiant figure when he returns to the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner almost three months after his first-ever appearance at the event was cut short because of an assassination attempt. Before the sound of gunshots ricocheted around the Washington Hilton ahead of Trump’s address on April 25, White House […]