WHAT A GUY: Trump dodges another gunman, unbowed but grounded: ‘Not going to deter me.’

First he wanted to return to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner before it was canceled, hoping to send a signal to a nation gripped by political vitriol and shaken by recent assassinations — from Charlie Kirk to Minnesota legislators – that “sick people” cannot “change the fabric” of the United States.

Then he quickly posted on social media a photo of the gunman – a 31-year-old from California armed with a shotgun, a handgun and knives. The image showed him handcuffed and stripped to his waist after his attack was foiled. There was no accident in the message: a failed shooter laid prostate, face-down and now harmless on the ground.

“This thug that attacked our Constitution, they seem to think he was a lone wolf, and I feel that too” Trump said. “My impression is he was a lone wolf, whack job. … These are crazy people, and they have to be dealt with.”

Three whack jobs in less than two years gives the impression that whack jobs are mainstream.

FRAUD ALL THE WAY DOWN:

New homeless shelters are sprouting up all across New York City

“We're finding that it nearly $10,000 per unit, per month.”

Shelters are being discovered being paid the full amount regardless of if the beds are being used

“This is the 15th homeless shelter in Greenwood… pic.twitter.com/jSznnCaiq1

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) April 25, 2026

HMM: Karen Bass Faces Serious Questions After Leaked Phone Call On Palisades Fire.

AND DEMS ARE ALL-IN:

China's military strategy to defeat America is based around encouraging Democrats to deindustrialize America, regulate AI, handcuff the American military with rules of engagement, and cripple young white men with DEI racial discrimination. https://t.co/UkBBwBI1gT

— Fugitive Caesar (@ThomBrady5) April 27, 2026

SPACE: SpaceX launching powerful Falcon Heavy rocket for 1st time in 18 months on April 27. “A Falcon Heavy topped with the huge ViaSat-3 F3 communications satellite will launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday (April 27), during an 85-minute window that opens at 10:21 a.m. EDT (1421 GMT).”

HE IS THE VERY MODEL OF A MODERN-DAY DEM:

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Leftist Lunatics and Gun—Free Zones Are a Dangerous Combo. “No one on the left is going to stop with the smears and the violence-inducing rhetoric about President Trump. The Secret Service does a great job but I still have my suspicions about some of the Swamp people and whether they have the president’s safety prioritized highly enough, especially higher up the food chain.”

NOT A BAD IDEA: Secret Service ‘needs to reconsider’ Trump-Vance joint appearances after WHCA gala shooting.

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said Sunday that the Secret Service should “reconsider” whether President Trump and Vice President Vance attend the same events in the wake of Saturday’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner.

“The takeaway I got was that the line of succession,” McCaul, who attended the Washington event, told host Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“You had the president and the vice president at the head table, both of them together, and [House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La)]. Had an explosive device gone off, you would have knocked out the president, vice president, Speaker. The three in line of succession,” the Texas Republican noted.

When Bash asked McCaul whether he was saying that those three should not be in public together, he replied, “I think the Secret Service needs to reconsider having both the president and vice president together.”

Related:

We changed hotels at the last minute yesterday, and booked a room at the Hilton at 3p.

I was never asked for a key, but could’ve produced one from a different city. Also never asked for ID, and waltzed through the lobby and lower ballroom areas like I owned the place.

Only saw… https://t.co/AsyWZtL0NH

— Kennedy (@KennedyNation) April 26, 2026

An even better idea would be if the Secret Service tightened the damn perimeter.

THIS:

Nailed it:

"The Democratic Party has created monsters among them. Democrats need to come to terms with what they have produced…

"The right has its own version of this derangement effect, not to diminish this being a problem on both sides. But while the right’s problem is in… https://t.co/21u7hVXrjk

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 27, 2026

MUCH APPRECIATED: Again, Fetterman Breaks Ranks After the Third Attempt on Trump’s Life.

WHEN THEY TELL YOU WHO THEY ARE…:

Making light of another assassination attempt on a President by our local Democrat Party is as disgraceful as it is unsurprising.

This is exactly the kind of rhetoric that contributes to a climate where these attacks continue to happen, and frankly, it’s why my staff and I take… pic.twitter.com/ZvpIVW0inx

— Congressman Greg Steube (@RepGregSteube) April 26, 2026

…believe them.

SUZY WEISS: My Takeaway from the WHCD? Dudes Rock.

When I got up soon after, I was shuffled to the front of the room to get to my sister, Bari, by a security guard who cleared a path for me through the confusion. Everyone was reeling, but the men were also another thing: They were activated. And I’m not talking here about the obvious heroes of the evening: the law enforcement professionals, and the Secret Service, one of whom was shot by the would-be assassin as he leaped toward the gunshots. Others, with guns at the ready, hustled officials out of the room. They acted nobly. But they weren’t the only ones.

The lobbyist David Urban was nearly glowing, telling us how he went to West Point, served in the 101st, and that he simply wasn’t about to let anything bad happen to us. I believed him. (And so did Bari, who was shielded by him at the front of the room like I was by Elliot in the back.)

Aaron MacLean—who was caught on camera during the pandemonium looking about as shaken as a person who really couldn’t decide if they wanted chicken or fish—was talking protocols, perimeters, and numbers with ease. How many seconds did it take for security to get Trump out of the building and to The Beast, the presidential limo? How many yards away was the shooter from the doors, and how long will it take to figure out what exactly happened?

Many of the men had hands on hips, surveying the room and counting tables, doors, and exits, nodding along to a distinctly male tune. Behind their eyes, you could glimpse the multiplication of tables by people per table, division by minutes, then seconds, accounting for escalator bottlenecks. MacLean was a Marine, and among many veterans in the room for whom, it seemed, a primal stopwatch had been started the second they saw, literally, that the big guns had come out. Immediately, they became situationally aware.

That’s the “toxic masculinity” the left keeps trying to suppress.

It’s a good piece from Weiss, and well worth giving up my email address to read the whole thing.

Related thoughts here from Sarah Anderson.

DEVELOPING…:

So a public school teacher in Calif. travels to DC with a collection of weapons. He has booked a room at the hotel where a highly publicized event is taking place with the POTUS as guest of honor. He has a large presence on social media, and he has written manifesto concerning…

— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) April 26, 2026

SCOTT PINSKER: Political Fallout of Yet Another Assassination Attempt: Danger for the Dems.

HISTORY DOESN’T REPEAT, BUT IT DOES RHYME:

Now is a good time to familiarize yourself with the prelude to the Spanish Civil War

Because if the right doesn’t learn that particular lesson of history very quickly we’re about to repeat it https://t.co/5BjEVJbx3C

— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) April 26, 2026

An old colleague got into prepping after Obama’s election in 2008, saying, long-term, he didn’t see how we got out of where the Democrats were taking us without bloodshed.

CHECKS OUT:

Libertarians think guns are for shooting criminals, because that's what we use them for.

— MyPetJawa (@mypetjawa) April 26, 2026

THE LEFT KEEPS THEM WOUND UP UNTIL SOMEBODY SNAPS:

Van Jones: we have to stop with this kind of violence, on all side….
No. There is no ALL SIDES political violence epidemic in this country. There is a left-wing violence problem and pretending it's ALL SIDES doesn't help solve the issue.

— Kira (@Kiradavis) April 26, 2026

HIS TRUE MOTIVE — INDEED, EVEN HIS INTENDED TARGET — MIGHT NEVER BE KNOWN:

We can’t even be certain who the intended target was.

— Rhonda Rhoades (@NewWaveIngenue) April 26, 2026

REQUIRED READING:

Please read this important post.

This is a report from Tehran by an Iranian who lives there. Decado is blowing through expensive VPNs to stay connected during the blackout. He's depicting life beyond the propaganda.

Stand with the real Iran.

Listen to REAL Iranian voices. https://t.co/3Ks1nl6h7v pic.twitter.com/xuVuC5qEn2

— 𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) April 25, 2026

This is from Part 2: “Some still find VPN access, but only through expensive, unstable, dangerous scraps. Three to eight dollars per gigabyte for a window to the world, with legal risk hanging over anyone who helps others connect.”

“Legal risk” is a polite way of saying, “Abducted, jailed, beaten, killed.”

FOR THE CHILDREN™ WAS NEVER ANYTHING OTHER THE MARKETING HYPE FOR THE GULLIBLE:

The fact that ICE found HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of migrant children in 2025, many of whom were in forced labor on a farms, is somehow NOT the biggest story in America…

…tells you everything you need to know about the media

It's totally insane. pic.twitter.com/aowEAbiYF1

— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) April 25, 2026

UPDATE ON THAT UCLA LAW DISRUPTION:

I have friends on the UCLA Law faculty, it may be the worst-governed elite US law school right now, the lunatics are running the asylum with the acquiescence of Dean Michael Waterstone. https://t.co/grpusDKWA5

— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) April 24, 2026

STOP CODDLING THE MENTALLY ILL: Trans substitute teacher, 19, allegedly plotted chilling ‘murder spree’ at a Virginia school.

YES. NEXT QUESTION?

So … the SPLC revived a dead neo-Nazi group? https://t.co/3InO7813a9

— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) April 24, 2026

UPDATE (From Ed): The SPLC allegedly made bank at Charlottesville:

SPLC got better returns than Nancy Pelosi and inverse Cramer combined! https://t.co/4AcSXEWLuo

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 25, 2026

THEY SAY HISTORY REPEATS, BUT C’MON — THAT’S A LITTLE TOO ON THE NOSE: Russia’s Communist leader warns a 1917-style revolution may be on the way.

THAT WOULD BE A START, I SUPPOSE: Senators Would Be Barred From Using Prediction Markets Under New Bill.

Senator Bernie Moreno, an Ohio Republican, introduced a bill that would prohibit sitting senators from participating in prediction markets.

Prediction markets are platforms that allow users to wager on the outcomes of real‑world events, including elections, economic data releases and geopolitical developments.

The proposal, introduced Friday, would amend Senate rules to bar members from entering into any financial agreement in which a payout depends on whether a specific future event occurs.

I concluded long ago that the assets of elected officials (and for any appointed position requiring Senate approval) should all go into the same blind trust. Any returns over the 7% that private investors hope to earn would go to deficit reduction.

It’s patriotic!