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president donald trump Despite surviving multiple assassinations, he was not interested in wearing a bulletproof vest.
Trump, 79, Asked by reporters At the Oval Office event on Thursday, April 30, were there any talks about the president’s future security precautions?
“I don’t know if I can stand looking 20 pounds heavier,” Trump responded, drawing laughter from several people in the room.
Trump was reportedly the gunman’s intended target Shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner The event was held on April 24 at the Washington Hilton Ballroom.
Carolyn Leavitt claims no one has suffered “more violence” than President Donald Trump following the recent shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The 28-year-old White House press secretary was (…)
president and first lady Melania Trump56, kicked off stage after the shooting was reported.
And the Trump family, the Vice President J.D. Vance and others were evacuated safely, a Secret Service agent was shot during the incident. The injured agent was wearing a protective vest.
“Frankly, the vest did a great job because it stopped bullets up close,” Trump said Thursday in the Oval Office. “And he didn’t even want to go to the hospital. We got him to the hospital.”
Trump also likened the experience of being shot while wearing a bulletproof vest to “getting hit by Mike Tyson.”
The day after the WHCD shooting, Trump praised the effectiveness of bulletproof vests while briefing the media on the injured Secret Service agent.
Donald Trump.
(Photo by Anna Chanmemaker/Getty Images)“The vest does the job,” Trump told reporters. “I just spoke to the officer and he was doing great, in good health and in good spirits, and I told him that we love him and respect him and that he’s a very proud man and he’s very proud of his job as a Secret Service agent.”
california native Cole Thomas Allen He was arrested during the shooting and later charged with attempting to assassinate the President of the United States, transporting firearms and ammunition in interstate commerce with intent to commit a felony, and discharging a firearm during a violent crime, according to the Justice Department. He has yet to enter a plea.
Shocking new video footage shows the gunfire that rang out at last weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. On Thursday, April 30, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro released what appeared to be security camera footage of the shooting via X . Shooting suspect Cole Tomas Allen allegedly may have been (…)
Meanwhile, Trump insists He’s ‘honoured’ to be targeted After the WHCD shooting.
“When you look at our great president, you see, this doesn’t happen to people who do nothing,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Saturday, April 25.
Trump also addressed his seemingly slow evacuation from the ballroom during the incident.
“What happened is, it was kind of like me. I wanted to see what happened, but I didn’t make it that easy for (the shooter),” Trump told 60 minutes Sunday, April 26th.
“I wanted to see what was going on. At that point, we started to realize that this could be a bad problem, a different type of problem, a bad problem, and different from the normal noise you hear in dance halls all the time,” he added. “I’m surrounded by great people, and I probably tell them to move a little slower. I say, ‘Wait a minute. Let me think.'”