Hello, it's Miranda. I'm back with a new mini episode of Podforce One. This feature is a little more

topical and relevant to my job as a columnist for The New York Post. Today's topic is Saturday night's

White House Correspondence Dinner, where I had a ringside seat to the chaos

after the fourth assassination attempt on Donald Trump in less than two years, and that's counting

the guy who tried to break into Marilago in February with a shotgun and gas canister.

The look on First Lady Melania Trump's face after a gunman tried to storm the White

House correspondence dinner Saturday night, said it all.

Eyes wide, mouth agape, her features frozen in horror as the room in front of her erupted

in chaos, tables flipping, crockery smashing, hundreds of

journalists and politicians hitting the deck as secret service agents barreled toward the stage,

guns drawn. By contrast, the expression on the president's face was calm, slightly quizzical,

his jaw tight, as he surveyed the ballroom and then glanced

towards the agents dashing to block him with their bodies from potential other assailants

before bundling him off stage. Perhaps after surviving his fourth confirmed assassination attempt

in less than two years, Donald Trump is used to people

trying to kill him, or perhaps he has just trained himself to have a poker face in any situation.

Either way, he was built for such moments of crisis. Two hours later, he was at the podium in the

White House Press briefing room, named after

James Brady, the White House Press Secretary shot in the head and paralyzed in the 1981

assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan outside the same hotel, the Washington Hilton.

The historical echo was not lost on any of the hastily assembled journalists still dressed in

their black tie finery.

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