Trump labels Correspondents' Dinner shooting 'unexpected'

Spectator Australia · Flat White · Sunday 26 April 2026

Trump labels Correspondents' Dinner shooting 'unexpected'

President Trump addressed the press after a shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, calling the incident 'very unexpected.'

Trump calls a shooting at the press dinner 'very unexpected' — mate, the only thing unexpected in Washington these days is a sentence with a verb in the right place. Forty years of treating political violence as a ratings event and now the chickens have RSVP'd to the gala.

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