Reporter describes taking cover with Trump during correspondents’ dinner shooting
CBS News’ Ed O’Keefe speaks with Weijia Jiang, the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, about her experience during Saturday night’s shooting.
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Isn't she aware about all the things Trump signed to be done? Is she really surprised?! She really doesn't realise that it is dangerous to be by Trump's side? Is she really journalist?!
STAGED!!!
Weijia, don't buy donnie-do-wrongs' line of crap, don't trust him, he's a dangerous liar.
He cares not for anyone but himself.
👩🦳💙🇺🇸
Stage Right or Opportunistic?
The Production: April 25, 2026
Trump arrives at the White House Correspondents Dinner — his first ever as a sitting president — to an event specifically honoring journalists for truthful, courageous reporting. The very journalists and awards he most wants to discredit. The Epstein story lives in that room.
Karoline Leavitt pre-announces Trump’s planned speech would be funny and “deliver some shots.” The punchline is already written before he takes the stage.
The entire Cabinet is present. Vance. Hegseth. Rubio. RFK. Mullin — the Secretary of Homeland Security, whose entire job is preventing exactly what is about to happen, seated comfortably at dinner. Judas JD abandons Iran negotiations to witness it. Satan’s Spawn Miller attends a press freedom celebration. Nobody asks why.
Shots are fired near the magnetometer — not inside the ballroom. Trump himself said the suspect “had a long way to go” and “wasn’t anywhere near to breach the doors of the ballroom.”
Then the press conference — flanked by the four horsemen: Judas J. D. Vance, Kash Patel, Markwayne Mullin, and Todd Blanche.
Now watch the contradictions stack:
“Fought like hell to stay” — Trump said he fought like hell to stay but was told by security “please, sir,” because agents still did not know of additional threats.
The man who just survived a near-assassination is arguing with Secret Service to stay at the scene of an unresolved threat.
“Another shooter” — security tells him to leave because they don’t know if there’s another shooter. But simultaneously Trump has already posted photos of the suspect on Truth Social, announced he’s from California, knows it’s an apartment, and says someone is on the way there.
You cannot simultaneously know everything and know nothing.
“Lone wolf” — Trump calls him a lone wolf at the press conference while his own security team is still clearing a potential second shooter. He’s already written the narrative before the scene is secured.
“I spoke to the officer” — Trump says he personally spoke to the officer who was shot. This happened during evacuation, during Truth Social posts, during coordination — all simultaneously. The timeline doesn’t breathe.
“It was either a tray or a bullet” — Trump said he heard the shots and thought it was “either a tray or a bullet.” A man shot at twice before, who knows exactly what gunfire sounds like, wasn’t sure if it was kitchen noise.
Blanche runs point. The Acting AG leads the legal narrative at the press conference. Blanche announced charges are expected to be filed soon. Kash — the FBI Director — stands dazed beside Trump, ornamental. The nation’s top law enforcement officer is a prop.
Bulletproof ballroom pivot. Within the hour of a shooting, Trump is promoting his product. That’s not a traumatized man. That’s a salesman.
The awards never happened. The dinner that honors press freedom — the one that was going to celebrate journalists for the Epstein story and everything else — is cancelled, rescheduled, diluted, and overshadowed.
Mission accomplished.
While Trump is praising the Secret Service agents, he may want to question why they gave the Vice President priority over the President when moving them from the stage.
This isn't what you see in the videos. He fell down.
CNN Reporter Wolff thought he was a target he sure think he is so important that shooter was there for him it was sooo funny
She is so well spoken
bridge over troubled water …
Why is she like "there was president trump both of us, we we were touching hehehe, cause we were on the floor together" like what is wrong with this lady? First amendment event? Give me a break.
That security couldnt get his gun drawn in time. It looked a few sec delayed.
Speaking of Feng fang, how many times did swalwell date gape you while you were accusing Trump, oh you don't remember.
Jiang look like Trumps best friend at the table? Did she forget about the Kung flu Trumps word for covid few years back at a press conference a while back she seemed very upset? She looked like secret service the way she jumped over him?
Trump❤
Trump hasn't deported the Chinese from the USA? 🤣
BS
Dear CBS Producer, Weijia Jiang has 2 small kids at home. Part of being a leader is to say, "It's been a long night. Go home to your family."
Weijia Jiang proved that she deserves her own Sunday-morning talk show. it's time for Margaret Brennan to "go home."
Why is he naked….
If Trump supports the First Amendment, why is his Secretary of Defense refusing to allow journalists into the Pentagon?
America. 900 million guns.
I love this beaitiful Asian woman.
what happened to the clothes the guy in camera had clothes on but not at the arrest,
No one can hurt Trump…. Staged. Please be real at least once
He seems awfully calm
CCP OUT
The real news is found on YouTube by Citizen Journalist like Nick Shirley and Nate Friedman. Welcome to the real world press core .
reporters produce fake news.
See BS. Hoax and we know it. Nice that Trump had a speech ready to go right afterward about– the ballroom. And his MAGAt influencer was taking selfies of herself blowing kisses. Real fear there.
Fake
Such a disgraceful Chinese, from the video, she pushed president Trump from behind when the guards try to escort president Trump away making president Trump fell. Don't know why CBS hired such a rude reporter. Have you ever done a background check on her?
Why do they need a bunker under the WH ?
Omg that’s the guy who went to #abyssinianbaptistchurch number one hypocrite #saundraparks house after Sunday services
That shooter is evil, if he manage to go to the Ballroom hall, he will spray bullet to all people, Whether your DEMOCRATS or REPUBLICANS, he just want to satisfy his Hate
😮
"This is the first time President Trump had ever agreed to come to this dinner …"
Yep, because they had to agree to not have any comedian present or have any jokes made about him!
The only president with such a thin skin!
Not to mention that Trump has had CBS install conservative news editor Bari Weiss and others to ensure that he is not embarrassed by any real journalism.
That assassin ruined supper! 😤 🥘
They left her behind!!😢
Odd another shooter got through the lack of security on a night when most of the award winners wrote articles exposing Trump.
Conveniently gets him out of having to acknowledge that in any comments. NO ACCIDENT.
Boo hoo
This is just embarrassing-all this gravitas and back patting for this obvious set up.
I really like this young lady. Too bad she is part of the legacy media…..
So Nora O'Donnell interviewed Trump he can't stand CBS yet y'all report on this?😂
5:28 – honestly, there is nothing wrong to be human one to another in these times. Especially on the air.
TRUMP was barely able to evacuate
and lardly able to
move and fell down
twice ⚠️‼️
President Trump was right in his idea of continuing with the event after the end of all that chaos.
Huge security breach 😢
But President Trump was cool
dress code for men only?
Barry Weiss will fire you if you say the wrong thing