BUSTED: “Anti-Hate” Group Gets Caught Funding Hate.

ROGER KIMBALL ON TONIGHT’S ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT:

Donald and Melania Trump entered the hall at 8:16 to cheers and applause. “Hail to the Chief” was followed by presentation of the colors and the National Anthem. We had a brief introduction from Weijia Jiang, this year’s president of the White House Correspondents Association, followed by dinner.

Two questions hovered in the background. One, how would President Trump treat the press? And two, would he, as had many presidents in the past at this event, treat the audience to a little self-deprecating humor? “Donald Trump” and “self-deprecation” are not words you often hear together, but who knows? The President is also a master communicator who reads his audience well.

We never found out. At about 8:35, four loud noises were heard from the back of the room. They were shots. . . .

“The First Amendment,” “Free Speech,” “A Free Media” are different ways of enunciating what the dinner is supposed to be all about. Not much mention, if any, will be given to the clamp down on free speech under the Biden administration or the liberating revolution sparked by Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter and his campaign to restore speech to the platform and hence to the wider media environment.

Donald Trump has probably given the media more access to his thoughts than any president in history. At least part of many of his Cabinet meetings are open to the media and he seldom boards or exits a plane without stopping to answer questions. If he thinks a question is stupid or ill-informed, he will say so. Fake news he treats as fake news. The media hates that, of course, but has anyone ever treated them more like adults?

Well, but they’re not. They’re middle school Mean Girls with a megaphone.

THE LEFT’S ASSASSINATION CULTURE HAS MAINSTREAM ENABLERS WHO SHOULD BE HELD STRICTLY ACCOUNTABLE:

OK, how many assassination attempts now? He must hold the record, or is getting close to it.

And by Monday, this story will be over. Just like all the other ones. They'll have found some new faux outrage to posture about. https://t.co/uyQdec6vn9

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 26, 2026

UPDATE (From Ed):

They don't kill you because you're a Nazi.

They call you a Nazi so they can kill you. pic.twitter.com/Yg3IRG4TTt

— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) April 26, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Make it special.

SO MUCH POLITICAL VIOLENCE FROM THE LEFT: Shots Fired at Correspondents Dinner, Shooter Neutralized, Trump Evacuated. “The shooter who fired off multiple rounds at the White House correspondents’ dinner Saturday evening is reportedly dead, and Secret Service agents successfully took President Donald Trump off the stage to safety. Fox News announced around 9 p.m. EDT that Trump was going to return, and the dinner could go on as planned. . . . The mainstream media have, of course, been encouraging violent hatred against President Trump for years with their extreme rhetoric framing him as worse than Hitler and the KKK. Perhaps they will be less extreme in their language now that they themselves faced such a potentially deadly situation.” Don’t count on it.

WHAT JUST HAPPENED AT WHCD;

Trump was introduced with First Lady 15 mins ish ago

Five or so mins after he was seated shots range out: POP POP POP POP. Sounds like five to me where I’m sitting.

Everyone immediately hit the floor.

Secret Service immediately took POTUS out…

— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) April 26, 2026

UPDATE:

Man the sound of the "pop, pop, pop" shots took me instantly back to those moments in Butler.
A lot rougher than I ever anticipated. https://t.co/6PU7WFL9b8

— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) April 26, 2026

Related:

More than half of Dems say it’s justifiable to kill Pres. Trump.

Another maniac tried to do it again tonight in DC.

This party, their allies, and their rhetoric draw blood. They’ve declared war.

Wake. Up. America. https://t.co/awwBKWoqk3

— BDW (@BryanDeanWright) April 26, 2026

This is still the case. And it needs to be addressed YESTERDAY. https://t.co/rYVz7ai8Ln

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) April 26, 2026

UPDATE:

NEWS: The attempted shooter at the White House Correspondent's Dinner is 31 year old Cole Tomas Allen from Torrance, California and he is in custody.

— Karol Markowicz (@karol) April 26, 2026

MORE: White House Correspondents’ Dinner gunman ‘assembled long weapon in unsecured room’ before firing near ballroom, volunteer reveals.

PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Sun unleashes 2 colossal X-flares within 7 hours of each other, knocking out radio signals on Earth.

YOU DON’T TUG ON SUPERMAN’S CAPE:

The day Obama regrets most. pic.twitter.com/ew4V5J0tOZ

— Everintrigued (@EverIntrigued) April 26, 2026

WELL, ASIDE FROM AN EJECTION SEAT: The Most Efficient Way to Evacuate a Plane, According to Science.

#RULEOFLAW:

Between 2009 and 2017 the Obama DOJ used the Espionage Act against leakers and journalists' sources more times than every single president before him combined. Every president. Going all the way back to 1917 when they wrote the thing. A hundred years of presidents, and Obama beat…

— Apple Lamps (@lamps_apple) April 25, 2026

HISTORY:

Older than the Incas
Older than the Aztecs
Older than the Maori in NZ
Older than the Zulu in SA
Older than the Lakota
Older than Islam in India

But the English are not officially considered "native" to England. https://t.co/2w2dxe4qou

— Carlos That Notices Things (@QuetzalPhoenix) April 25, 2026

I’M GLAD THERE’S NOTHING LIKE IT ON EARTH: Monster Storms on Jupiter Unleash Lightning Beyond Anything on Earth.

IT’S FAKE HATE ALL THE WAY DOWN:

Never Forget…

Chris Wray sent the FBI to a NASCAR event to investigate a garage pull down rope in order to push the fake White Supremacy narrative that the SPLC was feeding them.

As the SPLC was funding actual White Supremacists. pic.twitter.com/GKfW9Mg6qm

— C3 (@C_3C_3) April 25, 2026

WELL, GOOD: Targeting lost pleasure lifts depression and anxiety more than standard therapy, new study finds.

THE EV BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: GM Has Delayed Its Next-Gen Full-Size EV Trucks and SUVs.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Being a Not-A-Gun-Person Means Relying on Someone Else to Be There When You Need Help the Most.

THE SPLC’S DEADLY GRIFT?

“Heather Heyer, 32, was murdered that day in Charlottesville when a bigot drove his car into a counterprotest. Today, we must ask whether she could still be alive if the SPLC not been funding her killer’s organization.” https://t.co/VK52wIUvTz

— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) April 25, 2026

PROBABLY BECAUSE MOST ELECTRIC VEHICLES ARE EXPENSIVE AND MOSTLY SUITABLE AS SECOND CARS? Most electric vehicle owners are those with higher incomes and higher levels of education.

21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS: How 15 Stolen Crop-Spraying Drones Could Become a New Kind of Bioterrorism.

THIS WON’T BE GOOD FOR RECRUITING: No sex please, we’re on Mars! Inside the simulated red planet mission.

I dunno, it’s 3 reasonably attractive men and 3 reasonably attractive women confined for an extended time. There’s privacy in the bedrooms…

HMM: Could the Oldest Human Story Really Be 100,000 Years Old?

AS ONE OF MY DOCTOR FRIENDS SAYS, “IF YOU THINK YOU’RE HEALTHY, YOU HAVEN’T HAD ENOUGH TESTS.” The Modern Well-Being Paradox: How Much Data is Too Much Data?

IT’S ALWAYS OKAY TO MOCK GRIFTERS:

Speaking as a woman who had to start over at ~60 and is only occasionally mocked, I'd say the #1 difference is I didn't go to the NYT and suggest that American taxpayers owed me $272,000 per year to save me from my plight. https://t.co/zW7UGjT5ZT

— Ann Bauer (@annbauerwriter) April 24, 2026

And this time mockery is her getting off light:

Kate Puzey was murdered in 2009 after she reported that a Beninese teacher contracting with the Peace Corps was raping his students.

Cowan, the Peace Corps director in Benin at the time, failed to preserve her anonymity.

I don't feel sorry for her for a variety of reasons. https://t.co/bMn3FjXNZY

— Longshot (@ngprecision) April 24, 2026

ABC News: Parents of Slain Volunteer Say Peace Corps Error Led to Murder.

FLASHBACK:

What are the odds those tiki torch carrying neo-Nazis from Charlottesville would only rally once? Feels like it was an American intel op against Trump. That’s my working assumption.

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) March 9, 2023

YAY!

Success! https://t.co/INWWVZhsXx

— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) April 25, 2026

And if you do move to the States, whatever you do, do not move to Tennessee. Guns everywhere, drunken rednecks in pickup trucks, rattlesnakes, murder hornets — be smart and stay far away.

FIGHTING RACISM, ONE RED STATE AT A TIME: Pro-life states more likely to attract minorities as medical residents, research shows.