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President Donald Trump acknowledged that he may have cracked down on the Secret Service firing plan after the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night.
In a taped “60 Minutes” interview that aired Sunday night, Trump explained to CBS News reporter Norah O’Donnell what was going through his head during the swift process of Secret Service agents following him and removing him and other administration officials from the event after the shooting.
O’Donnell testified that it took 10 seconds for the agent to reach him and another 20 seconds before he was removed from the building. Trump admitted that some of the skepticism came from his desire to know what was going on.
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US First Lady Melania Trump and US President Donald Trump attend the White House Correspondents’ Dinner at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC, on April 25, 2026. (Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images)
“Well, what happened was a little bit me,” Trump said. “I wanted to see what was going on, and I wasn’t making it so easy for them. I wanted to see what was going on. And at that time, we started to see that maybe it was a bad problem, a different kind of problem, bad, and different than the normal noise from the ballroom, which you hear all the time. And I was surrounded by great people. And maybe ‘I made them stop a little bit, they said Wait a little bit. Look.
Trump said he and first lady Melania Trump were finally told to get off and “pretty much” started crawling out of the room.
“I was standing up and then I turned to the other side and I started walking out very tall, bent over a little bit because I, you know, I don’t look like I’m standing very tall but I was walking out, and I was halfway there. And they said, ‘Please get down. Please get down.’ So I fell down. So is the first lady,” said Trump.
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US President Donald Trump spoke to “60 Minutes” about the Secret Service removing him and other officials from the White House Correspondents’ dinner. (Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images)
Fox News Digital has reached out to the Secret Service for comment.
Trump, his wife and several administration officials were quickly ejected from the dinner, bringing the event to an abrupt end. In a press conference shortly after the shooting, Trump confirmed that the shooter was in custody and that he had asked the White House Correspondents’ Association to reschedule the dinner for the next 30 days.
Cole Allen, A 31-year-old computer scientist from Torrance, California, has been identified as the suspect in the shooting at the Washington Hilton Hotel.
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During a press conference Saturday night, authorities said Allen was armed with several weapons when he rushed to the Secret Service checkpoint. It is said that he opened fire at the Secret Service office, which was rushed to the hospital after being shot with a ballistic vest. The police officer was released from the hospital on Sunday.
President Donald Trump praised the actions of the Secret Service during the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. (Alex Wroblewski / AFP via Getty Images)
Fox News confirmed with law enforcement sources with knowledge of the investigation that the suspect was targeting the Trump administration.
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Fox News’ Max Bacall contributed to this report.
