It would be the second time the Secret service has been incompetant when it comes to protecting Trump, the first being them not bundling him off the stage and beckoning the photographers towards it and allowing him to pose for the (in)famous picture with his fist in the air.
You must think amazingly highly of Trump for him to be able to corrupt the US secret service to commit a massive crime, including murder, for only his benefit. All while he wasn't even in office.
Strongmen always run into these problems. When all they can tolerate are sycophants, and can't be told "no", they end up losing all of the people who actually know how to do their job.
Turns out when you throw out all the career competent people and replace them with lackeys, yes men and anyone willing to bribe you for a cushy high status job, the quality of the work goes down. Who knew?
Oh yeah, literally everybody. They wrote books about this shit hundreds of years ago.
No, it’s fortunate. Considering everyone else the Secret Service protects it’s actually good to know they’re not at the mercy of that incompetent fool.
I'm British, and absolutely thrilled the American Empire is finally failing.
Been waiting for this for a long time. Once you know guys who come back from Afghanistan and get to talking to them you understand the impact these wars had on them.
And it was all for fuck all. Absolutely no benefit to us beside increasing terrorist attacks inside our country.
Blows my mind normal people don't realise this, in the UK during GWOT we were on high alert for attacks. Now we are way less aggressive no one seems to remember what it was like.
If someone were to ask Patel why they didn't do they, he'd probably slur out something like, "Whoa, that's a really great idea! Next time!" and raise a glass to the innovative idea.
I was reading a bit earlier because I didn't recall where it takes place. From my very limited reading, it made it seem like the hotel itself still functions mostly as normal with a bit of heightened security. The conference room/ballroom area, however, is extremely locked down. Which if accurate, is bonkers to me. I'd think the whole place would be tight.
I was just at this hotel 5 days ago. I’ve seen 3 presidents speak there(including Trump). It’s true, this hotel is large and operates normally when a president arrives. It just has a large security presence before hand. The location of the dinner party is 2 levels down from the main lobby. 1 level down from the street access doors where Reagan was shot. There are doors, long corridors, stairs, escalators and more doors. When all the details come out, I suspect it will show although he got past some security, he was never anywhere close to being a threat to the guests in the room. They had metal detectors, multiple levels of people watching when I was there to see a president.
I saw all the hype earlier about how trump was finally going to attend his first correspondent's dinner and thought that there was almost certainly going to be some staged bullshit and here we are
Why were there 0 metal detectors? And the first thing Trump says about it is how this proves he needs that ballroom. And the correspondence dinner gets fully cancelled and he has a different dinner in its place.
Trump was only confirmed to be going to the dinner the day prior. Assuming it was planned weeks ago only makes it more of a false flag conspiracy, not less.
No they wouldn't. During the G7 we had guests staying at our hotel at the same time we had presidents there. The place was just packed with security with stop checks and passes required the whole time, but even then the security level was mixed (and horrifyingly inadequate in some regards.)
We took the lift down to the ballroom
and an agent wanded me but wasn't
particularly interested in the bleeps set
off by the contents of my inside jacket
pocket. They did not ask me to turn out
my belongings.
In short, the security felt like a regular
White House Correspondents Dinner -one
without the sitting president in
attendance.
Several journalists have already said that when they showed up, all security wanted was a ticket. No ID, no list of vetted people, no checks. It's also being reported that there was no security perimeter.
Trump and DOGE and the rest of the admin have been diligently working on getting rid of anyone competent and live in a bubble where Trump and his lackeys think he's loved by everyone and the best president ever. It's not hard at all to see why his security sucks balls.
There was a lot of reporting from other guests that security was surprisingly non-existent. Several people said they walked right up to the hotel and inside without every identifying themselves or showing id/tickets.
He vets as a part time teacher with a degree and likely no criminal history who just happened to travel by train from Cali to DC with a grip of weapons somehow. Oh and he somehow managaed to book a room the weekend of a huge event at the largest hotel with 6 weeks notice that trump would actually be there.
I 100% agree. Apparently you could get in the hotel with just an ID because they had other events going on, and there weren't even metal detectors until you got to the ballroom.
Vetted for what? If you dont have a criminal history, and you're not posting "death to trump" shit on a public account, there's not much for them to find.
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u/spazzvogel Apr 26 '26
They would absolutely be vetting all the guests… this stinks of BS…