A Democratic FCC commissioner warned that the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner “should not become a pretext for censoring speech,” after President Donald Trump again called for ABC to fire the late-night host over a joke he made last week in his monologue. First Lady Melania Trump also urged the network to “take…
Here we go again. Photo: Randy Holmes/Disney There was no comedian present (there was, however, a mentalist) for this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, but that didn’t stop Jimmy Kimmel from presenting his alternative version of what his WHCD monologue might look like on his Thursday, April 23, show. Sandwiched between jokes about how the…
The suspect arrested for the shooting that shut down the 2026 White House Correspondents Dinner and saw Donald Trump evacuated could spend the rest of his life in a federal prison if found guilty, the Acting Attorney General declared today. “Today the Department of Justice filed three federal charges in the United States District Court…
Former President Barack Obama issued a statement today after the shooting last night at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in which an armed assailant apparently tried to get to President Trump and other administration officials. Obama called on all Americans “to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy.” He also called…
WASHINGTON — Mentalist Oz Pearlman was supposed to dazzle an audience of hundreds on Saturday night here with mind tricks in a well-lit hotel ballroom. Instead he found himself doing his act for a small handful of media executives in a darkened underground event space close to midnight. MS NOW had planned to host a…
“It’s always shocking when something like this happens,” Donald Trump said tonight about the shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner. “It was either a tray or a bullet,” he said he heard before agents hustled him to safety. “When you are impactful they go after you, when you are not impactful they leave you…
Donald Trump insists the White House Correspondents Dinner should “go on,” despite shots being fired tonight at the event. Calling it “Quite an evening in D.C.,” the evacuated POTUS praised “Secret Service and Law Enforcement” for a “fantastic job.” Believed to still be in a safe room in the Washington Hilton, Trump posted online: “They…
Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Noted enemy-of-the-press Donald Trump is attending the White House Correspondents’ Dinner this year. Everybody say “Dear God, no.” Trump has not attended the event since becoming president for the first time in 2016. “In honor of our Nation’s 250th Birthday, and the fact that these ‘Correspondents’ now admit that I am truly…
