President Donald Trump shared on Truth Social a photo and video footage of a shooter’s attempt to barrel past a security checkpoint at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
The video, shared shortly before a hastily convened press conference at the White House on Saturday night, shows a blur of a man running past law enforcement officers standing near magnetometers at the Washington Hilton.
Trump also posted a photo of the suspect seen shirtless on the ground with his hands restrained behind his back.
“The man has been captured. They’ve gone to his apartment,” Trump said. He added that the suspect is in his 30s and from California.
“He’s a sick person, a very sick person, and we don’t want things like this to happen,” Trump added.
One law enforcement officer was shot during the incident but was wearing a bulletproof vest.
“The vest did the job. I just spoke to the officer and he’s doing great, great shape,” Trump said at the press conference.
Trump also used the shooting to promote his plans for a new White House ballroom, saying it will be “drone proof” with “bulletproof glass.”
“That’s why the military are demanding it,” Trump said.
“They’ve wanted the ballroom for 150 years, for a lot of different reasons, but today is a little bit different, because we need levels of security that no one has probably ever seen before,” Trump added.
Asked by a reporter how he’s coping following multiple assassination attempts, Trump said at least it hasn’t made him a “basket case.”
