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President Donald Trump said he would attend and speak at the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Dinner, now set to take place on July 24th with enhanced security measures, after the April event was disrupted by a gunman.
Trump said he may “give the same rather nasty statements” at the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Dinner. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Trump confirmed in a Tuesday afternoon post on Truth Social he accepted an invitation from Weijia Jiang, a CBS News reporter and president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, to attend and speak at the rescheduled dinner.
Trump said he does not yet know “whether or not I will give the same rather nasty statements, at least as it concerns certain people, but we will soon find out,” saying the event will be “a ‘HOT’ ticket!”
The White House Correspondents’ Association announced earlier Tuesday afternoon the rescheduled dinner would take place in July, with Jiang saying the association “will not allow an act of violence to have the last word.”
April’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner ended abruptly after a gunman, suspected to be 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen, stormed a security checkpoint and exchanged fire with Secret Service agents.
Trump, in his post on Tuesday, acknowledged the April event “violently ended rather abruptly,” saying the rescheduled dinner will be a “sign of Strength and Fortitude” and that “we cannot allow Lunatics to change our way of life.”
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