President Donald Trump said he “wasn’t making it that easy” for the Secret Service to quickly move him out of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner during a tense moment when a man tried to break into the event and attack him and members of his administration. He shared this during an interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday.
He explained, “I wanted to see what was going on.”
Correspondent Norah O’Donnell mentioned that it took 10 seconds for the Secret Service to surround Trump and 20 seconds to get him off the stage.
“It looked chaotic, at one point you were down,” O’Donnell said.
“What was happening?”
Trump said he was surrounded by “great people” and “probably made them act a little more slowly” than usual.
“Wait a minute, wait a minute, let me see.
Wait a minute,” Trump said he told his security team.
He then started to walk out in a “pretty tall [stance], a little bent over, you know, because I’m not looking to stand too tall,” before finally hitting the ground when the Secret Service insisted he do so.
The president talked about the latest assassination attempt against him in a last-minute interview on Sunday, the day after the shooting.
Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt — who is nine months pregnant — were quickly taken to safety just minutes after the event began.
It was supposed to be Trump’s first White House Correspondents’ Dinner since becoming president.
Cole Tomas Allen — the 31-year-old suspected shooter — appeared to be motivated by conspiracy theories about Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
He wrote in his manifesto that Trump was a “pedophile” and “rapist” who needed to be killed.
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