{"id":1630,"date":"2026-07-24T18:10:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2026-07-24T18:10:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:10:23","slug":"white-house-promises-unifying-yet-vicious-trump-speech-at-rescheduled-whcd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=1630","title":{"rendered":"White House Promises \u2018Unifying Yet Vicious\u2019 Trump Speech At Rescheduled WHCD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><div><p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The rescheduled White House Correspondents Dinner will take place Friday evening in Washington, D.C., months after an assassin tried to barge into the event and target the president and top conservatives.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=1629\">LeBron James Makes Decision On Where He\u2019ll Play His 24th Season<\/a><\/p><p>Friday\u2019s White House Correspondents Dinner will take place at the Waldorf Astoria, formerly Trump Hotel, in downtown D.C. \u2014 \u201ca Building and Ballroom that I built,\u201d as the president said in a Truth Social post earlier this summer.<\/p><p>\u201cI was asked to be there, and speak, by Weijia Jiang, President of The White House Correspondents\u2019 Association, and have accepted,\u201d Trump added. \u201cI don\u2019t know whether or not I will give the same rather nasty statements, at least as it concerns certain people, but we will soon find out.\u201d<\/p><p>Friday night\u2019s event, including Trump\u2019s speech, will be streamed live on The Daily Wire.<\/p><p>The previous dinner was held at the Washington Hilton, where, on April 25, a shooter named Cole Tomas Allen attempted to charge into the event and open fire on multiple top Trump administration officials, according to federal prosecutors.<\/p><p>Karoline Leavitt promised from the briefing room podium on Thursday that Trump \u201clooks forward to finishing what he started\u201d before the assassination attempt, encouraging Americans to \u201ctune in, for what promises to be a very entertaining and memorable evening.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cThe president\u2019s speech will be a combination of unifying yet vicious, and serious yet hilarious, all at the same time, if you can imagine that,\u201d Leavitt added on Friday. \u201cOne thing I can assure you, it will be entertaining.\u201d<\/p><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1621\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/c7814ec3bb7b1599901125efe4660218-768x512.avif\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/c7814ec3bb7b1599901125efe4660218-768x512.avif 768w, https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/c7814ec3bb7b1599901125efe4660218-300x200.avif 300w, https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/c7814ec3bb7b1599901125efe4660218.avif 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><p>The Secret Service told The Daily Wire on Friday that it is committed to ensuring the safety and security of the dinner, sharing that \u201cSecret Service personnel have been in collaboration with the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA), hotel security, and law enforcement partners at the federal and local level.\u201d<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=1627\">Inside The Secret Service\u2019s New Security Plan For WHCD<\/a><\/p><p>Guests should expect to see a \u201cvisible police presence around the Waldorf Astoria hotel,\u201d Anthony Guglielmi, U.S. Secret Service chief of communications, shared on Friday, noting that there will be enhanced traffic closures due to the location of the event.<\/p><p>All guests of the dinner will have to go through \u201cairport-style magnetometer screening,\u201d and the roads around the Waldorf will be closed on Friday.<\/p><p>\u201cWe are confident that our robust security plan will ensure the safety of our protectees and attendees, just as our plan did in April,\u201d Guglielmi said. \u201cOur agency grows and adapts from every event we secure, and we have engaged with WHCA to ensure attendees are given timely information in the unlikely event on an emergency during the event.\u201d<\/p><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1622\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/71ebe8cb377be7a50255c6621b87bc84-768x460.avif\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/71ebe8cb377be7a50255c6621b87bc84-768x460.avif 768w, https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/71ebe8cb377be7a50255c6621b87bc84-300x180.avif 300w, https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/71ebe8cb377be7a50255c6621b87bc84.avif 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><p>Weijia Jiang, the outgoing president of the White House Correspondents Association, said Friday night\u2019s dinner will not only be an opportunity to actually hold the dinner, but it will also be \u201ca statement that violence has no place in American life and a free press will not be intimidated into silence.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cAs you have all demonstrated, courage and community can and should rise above,\u201d Jiang told the White House press in an emailed statement.<\/p><p>Authorities indicted accused assassin Allen on four charges: attempting to assassinate the president, assault on an officer of the United States with a deadly weapon, transporting a firearm, and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.<\/p><p>He is the fourth known person to attempt to assassinate Trump in the past two years. Thomas Matthew Crooks shot at Trump during his Butler, Pennsylvania rally in July 2024, Ryan Wesley Routh attempted to shoot Trump on September 15, 2024, and Austin Tucker Martin was shot and killed by authorities as he attempted to breach Mar-a-Lago in February 2026. Crooks was also killed by authorities, and Routh is serving a life sentence in prison.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=1625\">Sophie Cunningham Triples Down On Haters With Ice-Cold Instagram Post<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The rescheduled White House Correspondents Dinner will take place Friday evening in Washington, D.C., months after an assassin tried to barge into the event and target the president and top conservatives.Friday\u2019s White House Correspondents Dinner will take place at the Waldorf Astoria, formerly Trump Hotel, in downtown D.C. \u2014 \u201ca Building and Ballroom that I built,\u201d as the president said in a Truth Social post earlier this summer.\u201cI was asked to be there, and speak, by Weijia Jiang, President of The White House Correspondents\u2019 Association, and have accepted,\u201d Trump added. \u201cI don\u2019t know whether or not I will give the same rather nasty statements, at least as it concerns certain people, but we will soon find out.\u201dFriday night\u2019s event, including Trump\u2019s speech, will be streamed live on The Daily Wire.The previous dinner was held at the Washington Hilton, where, on April 25, a shooter named Cole Tomas Allen attempted to charge into the event and open fire on multiple top Trump administration officials, according to federal prosecutors.Karoline Leavitt promised from the briefing room podium on Thursday that Trump \u201clooks forward to finishing what he started\u201d before the assassination attempt, encouraging Americans to \u201ctune in, for what promises to be a very entertaining and memorable evening.\u201d\u201cThe president\u2019s speech will be a combination of unifying yet vicious, and serious yet hilarious, all at the same time, if you can imagine that,\u201d Leavitt added on Friday. \u201cOne thing I can assure you, it will be entertaining.\u201d Karoline Leavitt, Melania Trump, Donald Trump, and Weijia Jiang attend The White House Correspondents Dinner at Washington Hilton on April 25, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for OP)The Secret Service told The Daily Wire on Friday that it is committed to ensuring the safety and security of the dinner, sharing that \u201cSecret Service personnel have been in collaboration with the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA), hotel security, and law enforcement partners at the federal and local level.\u201dGuests should expect to see a \u201cvisible police presence around the Waldorf Astoria hotel,\u201d Anthony Guglielmi, U.S. Secret Service chief of communications, shared on Friday, noting that there will be enhanced traffic closures due to the location of the event.All guests of the dinner will have to go through \u201cairport-style magnetometer screening,\u201d and the roads around the Waldorf will be closed on Friday.\u201cWe are confident that our robust security plan will ensure the safety of our protectees and attendees, just as our plan did in April,\u201d Guglielmi said. \u201cOur agency grows and adapts from every event we secure, and we have engaged with WHCA to ensure attendees are given timely information in the unlikely event on an emergency during the event.\u201dThis image shows Cole Tomas Allen, the suspect in the shooting incident in Washington at the annual White House Correspondents\u2019 Association Dinner, while in his hotel room at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC, on April 25, 2026. (Photo by U.S. Department of Justice\/Getty Images)Weijia Jiang, the outgoing president of the White House Correspondents Association, said Friday night\u2019s dinner will not only be an opportunity to actually hold the dinner, but it will also be \u201ca statement that violence has no place in American life and a free press will not be intimidated into silence.\u201d\u201cAs you have all demonstrated, courage and community can and should rise above,\u201d Jiang told the White House press in an emailed statement.Authorities indicted accused assassin Allen on four charges: attempting to assassinate the president, assault on an officer of the United States with a deadly weapon, transporting a firearm, and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.He is the fourth known person to attempt to assassinate Trump in the past two years. Thomas Matthew Crooks shot at Trump during his Butler, Pennsylvania rally in July 2024, Ryan Wesley Routh attempted to shoot Trump on September 15, 2024, and Austin Tucker Martin was shot and killed by authorities as he attempted to breach Mar-a-Lago in February 2026. Crooks was also killed by authorities, and Routh is serving a life sentence in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>White House Promises \u2018Unifying Yet Vicious\u2019 Trump Speech At Rescheduled WHCD - Blue Route Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=1630\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"White House Promises \u2018Unifying Yet Vicious\u2019 Trump Speech At Rescheduled WHCD - Blue Route Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WASHINGTON \u2014 The rescheduled White House Correspondents Dinner will take place Friday evening in Washington, D.C., months after an assassin tried to barge into the event and target the president and top conservatives.Friday\u2019s White House Correspondents Dinner will take place at the Waldorf Astoria, formerly Trump Hotel, in downtown D.C. \u2014 \u201ca Building and Ballroom that I built,\u201d as the president said in a Truth Social post earlier this summer.\u201cI was asked to be there, and speak, by Weijia Jiang, President of The White House Correspondents\u2019 Association, and have accepted,\u201d Trump added. \u201cI don\u2019t know whether or not I will give the same rather nasty statements, at least as it concerns certain people, but we will soon find out.\u201dFriday night\u2019s event, including Trump\u2019s speech, will be streamed live on The Daily Wire.The previous dinner was held at the Washington Hilton, where, on April 25, a shooter named Cole Tomas Allen attempted to charge into the event and open fire on multiple top Trump administration officials, according to federal prosecutors.Karoline Leavitt promised from the briefing room podium on Thursday that Trump \u201clooks forward to finishing what he started\u201d before the assassination attempt, encouraging Americans to \u201ctune in, for what promises to be a very entertaining and memorable evening.\u201d\u201cThe president\u2019s speech will be a combination of unifying yet vicious, and serious yet hilarious, all at the same time, if you can imagine that,\u201d Leavitt added on Friday. \u201cOne thing I can assure you, it will be entertaining.\u201d Karoline Leavitt, Melania Trump, Donald Trump, and Weijia Jiang attend The White House Correspondents Dinner at Washington Hilton on April 25, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for OP)The Secret Service told The Daily Wire on Friday that it is committed to ensuring the safety and security of the dinner, sharing that \u201cSecret Service personnel have been in collaboration with the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA), hotel security, and law enforcement partners at the federal and local level.\u201dGuests should expect to see a \u201cvisible police presence around the Waldorf Astoria hotel,\u201d Anthony Guglielmi, U.S. Secret Service chief of communications, shared on Friday, noting that there will be enhanced traffic closures due to the location of the event.All guests of the dinner will have to go through \u201cairport-style magnetometer screening,\u201d and the roads around the Waldorf will be closed on Friday.\u201cWe are confident that our robust security plan will ensure the safety of our protectees and attendees, just as our plan did in April,\u201d Guglielmi said. \u201cOur agency grows and adapts from every event we secure, and we have engaged with WHCA to ensure attendees are given timely information in the unlikely event on an emergency during the event.\u201dThis image shows Cole Tomas Allen, the suspect in the shooting incident in Washington at the annual White House Correspondents\u2019 Association Dinner, while in his hotel room at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC, on April 25, 2026. (Photo by U.S. Department of Justice\/Getty Images)Weijia Jiang, the outgoing president of the White House Correspondents Association, said Friday night\u2019s dinner will not only be an opportunity to actually hold the dinner, but it will also be \u201ca statement that violence has no place in American life and a free press will not be intimidated into silence.\u201d\u201cAs you have all demonstrated, courage and community can and should rise above,\u201d Jiang told the White House press in an emailed statement.Authorities indicted accused assassin Allen on four charges: attempting to assassinate the president, assault on an officer of the United States with a deadly weapon, transporting a firearm, and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.He is the fourth known person to attempt to assassinate Trump in the past two years. Thomas Matthew Crooks shot at Trump during his Butler, Pennsylvania rally in July 2024, Ryan Wesley Routh attempted to shoot Trump on September 15, 2024, and Austin Tucker Martin was shot and killed by authorities as he attempted to breach Mar-a-Lago in February 2026. 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(Photo by Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for OP)The Secret Service told The Daily Wire on Friday that it is committed to ensuring the safety and security of the dinner, sharing that \u201cSecret Service personnel have been in collaboration with the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA), hotel security, and law enforcement partners at the federal and local level.\u201dGuests should expect to see a \u201cvisible police presence around the Waldorf Astoria hotel,\u201d Anthony Guglielmi, U.S. Secret Service chief of communications, shared on Friday, noting that there will be enhanced traffic closures due to the location of the event.All guests of the dinner will have to go through \u201cairport-style magnetometer screening,\u201d and the roads around the Waldorf will be closed on Friday.\u201cWe are confident that our robust security plan will ensure the safety of our protectees and attendees, just as our plan did in April,\u201d Guglielmi said. \u201cOur agency grows and adapts from every event we secure, and we have engaged with WHCA to ensure attendees are given timely information in the unlikely event on an emergency during the event.\u201dThis image shows Cole Tomas Allen, the suspect in the shooting incident in Washington at the annual White House Correspondents\u2019 Association Dinner, while in his hotel room at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC, on April 25, 2026. (Photo by U.S. Department of Justice\/Getty Images)Weijia Jiang, the outgoing president of the White House Correspondents Association, said Friday night\u2019s dinner will not only be an opportunity to actually hold the dinner, but it will also be \u201ca statement that violence has no place in American life and a free press will not be intimidated into silence.\u201d\u201cAs you have all demonstrated, courage and community can and should rise above,\u201d Jiang told the White House press in an emailed statement.Authorities indicted accused assassin Allen on four charges: attempting to assassinate the president, assault on an officer of the United States with a deadly weapon, transporting a firearm, and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.He is the fourth known person to attempt to assassinate Trump in the past two years. Thomas Matthew Crooks shot at Trump during his Butler, Pennsylvania rally in July 2024, Ryan Wesley Routh attempted to shoot Trump on September 15, 2024, and Austin Tucker Martin was shot and killed by authorities as he attempted to breach Mar-a-Lago in February 2026. 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