Trump unhurt after shooting at White House dinner
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
US President Donald Trump is unharmed after shots were fired at the White House correspondents’ dinner he attended. A 31-year-old suspect has been arrested and a security agent who was shot is now reportedly out of hospital. We speak to US mentalist Oz Pearlman who was with the president when the event unfolded.
Also in the programme: The Iranian foreign minister meets with Oman’s sultan to discuss peace with the US; and why some board game are becoming more popular.
(Photo: US President Donald Trump salutes during the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington DC, 25th April 2026. Credit: REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Hello and welcome to Newsout from the World Service of the BBC, live from London. |
| 0:15.1 | This is Owen Bennett Jones. Donald Trump was rushed to safety yesterday after shots were |
| 0:20.6 | fired in a Washington hotel. |
| 0:23.0 | He was attending a gala dinner when someone in the building fired a weapon. |
| 0:34.8 | One secret service officer was shot at very close range |
| 0:38.0 | but saved by his bulletproof vest. |
| 0:40.0 | That's according to a post from the president. |
| 0:42.3 | The event was the White House Correspondence Dinner. |
| 0:45.3 | Annual event. |
| 0:46.4 | There are hundreds of diplomats and journalists there. |
| 0:48.4 | They took cover under the tables. |
| 0:50.7 | The music was stopped and the guests hit the floor. |
| 1:03.8 | Go! tables, the music was stopped and the guests hit the floor. It doesn't really catch the crisis that it was felt in the room. |
| 1:07.9 | The president spoke to reporters afterwards. |
| 1:10.7 | That was very unexpected, but incredibly acted upon by Secret Service and law enforcement. |
| 1:20.6 | And this was an event dedicated to freedom of speech that was supposed to bring together members of both parties |
| 1:29.9 | with members of the press. And in a certain way, it did. Because the fact that they just unified, |
| 1:38.7 | I saw a room that was just totally unified. It was in one way, very beautiful, a very beautiful |
| 1:43.9 | thing to see a man |
| 1:45.0 | charged a security checkpoint armed with multiple weapons, and he was taken down by some very |
| 1:52.9 | brave members of Secret Service, and they acted very quickly. Well, after that, Washington DC's |
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