U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday (April 26, 2026) made a fresh call for building a high-security ballroom within the White House complex, hours after he was evacuated from the annual dinner of journalists at a downtown hotel following a shooting incident.

“This event would never have happened with the Militarily Top Secret Ballroom currently under construction at the White House,” Mr. Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Sunday (April 26) morning, and called for dropping the court case in the matter.

The gunman who tried to breach the ballroom at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is believed to have been targeting members of the Trump administration, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Sunday (April 26, 2026).

Mr. Blanche also said officials believe that the suspect travelled by train from California to Chicago and then on to Washington, where he checked in as a guest to the hotel where one of Washington’s glitziest events was being held on Saturday night (April 25, 2026).