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The bullet-dodger in chief
Donald Trump has spent half a century turning setbacks into spectacles. From brash Manhattan developer to reality-TV ringmaster to twice-elected president, his career has been a masterclass in branding resilience. Yet the past three years have added a darker chapter: three moments when gunfire interrupted his script—at the precise points when the spotlight burned brightest and the stakes were highest. Each time, investigators found a lone actor with no grand conspiracy. Each time, the would-be assassins failed. And each time, Trump emerged not merely unscathed but somehow fortified. The latest episode came on April 25th at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington. As the black-tie crowd settled in for an evening of barbed satire, a 31-year-old Californian named Cole Tomas Allen rushed a security checkpoint at the Washington…
The shots that echoed
“He is ready to rumble,” declared Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, on the red carpet outside the Washington Hilton on April 25th. “This speech tonight will be classic Donald J. Trump. It will be funny. It will be entertaining. There will be some shots fired tonight.” The remark, offered in a cheerful preview to a Fox News correspondent, was meant as light-hearted anticipation of presidential zingers aimed at the assembled press. By the end of the evening, it had taken on a rather different cast. The White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is one of Washington’s more durable rituals: an annual black-tie gathering at which journalists and politicians exchange barbed pleasantries, raise money for scholarships and pretend, for a few hours, that mutual loathing can be set aside for…
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By the time the first champagne flutes hit the carpet at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night, Cole Tomas Allen…
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Donald Trump has cast the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner as further proof that "they can't stop…
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