Trump Reveals Rescheduled WHCD Will Be Held at New Venue

Kevin Mazur / Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for OPThe White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, which was interrupted in April after a gunman tried to assassinate President Donald Trump, is back on. Weijia Jiang, President of the White House Correspondents’ Association, says the event will take place on July 24. Trump, 79, confirmed he would attend the rescheduled event on Truth Social. The original April 25th dinner was cut short after 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen stormed the Washington Hilton and opened fire, shooting one Secret Service officer, who was saved thanks to his bulletproof vest. Trump said the revised event would be held at the Waldorf Astoria. “This announcement is a very good thing in that we cannot allow Lunatics to change our way of life, or even its scheduling,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “It will be a ‘HOT’ ticket! Interestingly, the location will be The Waldorf Astoria, on Pennsylvania Avenue, a Building and Ballroom that I built.” Trump didn’t, in fact, build the hotel, but he did lease it in 2013 and made major renovations to the existing structure before selling the lease in 2022.Read it at The New York TimesRead more at The Daily Beast.