In a city where ritual and power have long kept uneasy company, President Trump appeared for the first time at the White House Correspondents' dinner on July 24th — an evening already marked by violence, having been interrupted in April when a gunman opened fire outside the original ballroom. The gathering reconvened at a smaller, more fortified venue, carrying the weight of an assassination attempt, a wounded Secret Service officer, and the enduring tension between a presidency that has sued and restricted the press and a press corps that insists on its constitutional place. What unfolded was
Trump returns to press dinner with barbs, jokes after April security incident
Secret Service officer Victor Gonzales was shot and wounded at a security checkpoint while stopping an assassination attempt on President Trump.