Apr 27, 2026
Trump Drops BIZARRE Comments As Correspondents Dinner Shooter Details Revealed
Donald Trump and his team make bizarre comments following the White House Correspondents dinner as details from the shooter's background are revealed. Yasmin Kahn and Jayar Jackson break it down on The Damage Report. Leave a comment with your thoughts below!
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You saw the best resolve of American law enforcement
because you Mr. President inspire them 24 7
365. You give them the resources that they need
and you know, they know that you have their
back. And that is a changing dynamic in this
country. And that's why you saw brave Secret
Service agents respond immediately, swiftly,
subdue and take down the suspect and safeguard
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the lives of thousands of individuals at that
hotel. My God, what a dork all that glazing
and for what, know, so setting all of that aside
though, the White House Correspondents Dinner
as I'm sure you've heard was postponed after
a shooter fired shots in the lobby area. So
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thankfully no one was killed. There was one
officer who was injured, but he has since
been released from the hospital. But the shooter
has by now been identified as 31 year old Cole
Thomas Allen. So here are the details as we
have them so far. Cole Allen was 31 and he's
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from Torrance, California. He was a mechanical
engineer, video game developer and an educator
who actually won a Teacher of the Month award
in 2024. He was a former high school volleyball
teammate and his former teammate described
him as a borderline genius and super stable,
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which is what you say about someone who is I
guess not very stable. He said he was probably
the most gentle person on the team, which makes
it even more shocking that he did this. So
we do have details of his thinking from writings
he had, he did release his manifesto. So ahead
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of the shooting, Allen sent his family members
writings that displayed anti-Trump sentiment
and described his targets as administration
officials. A senior administration official
told NBC News, the official said the suspect's
brother notified police in Connecticut upon
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receiving the writings in which Allen apologizes
to family and friends, but says that he does
not expect forgiveness. And his sister, Averyana
Allen, described him to law enforcement as
having a tendency toward making radical comments,
as well as constantly referring to a plan
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to fix issues with the world, which is, that
is a little suspect. If somebody I knew in
my life kept referring to his plan to fix the
world, yeah, I think I'd be a little worried.
But the suspect will be charged. with using
a firearm during a crime of violence and assault
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on a federal officer with a dangerous or deadly
weapon. And he was expected to be arraigned
Monday night. So before we discuss JR, there
are some highlights from Trump's comments right
after the shooting that I wanna show everyone.
Take a look at this. We're going to reschedule,
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we're gonna do it again. We're not gonna let
anybody take over our society. We're not gonna
cancel things out, cuz we can't do that. We
wanted to say tonight, I will tell you, I-
I fought like hell this day. But there was
protocol, they said please sir, because they
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didn't know there was a lot of action. I don't
care how many people you have, how good they
are. They can be the greatest people, you have
the greatest security in history. If you have
a whack job that's got a brain but it's a little
bit distorted or a lot distorted, they can
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make trouble. I would say Pete, right? They
can make trouble. Some of these people are
of genius level IQ and they're nuts. It's not
gonna deter me from winning the war in Iran.
I don't know if that had anything to do with
it. I really don't think so, based on what
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we know. But we're gonna continue to do a great
job, that's all I can do. I don't know what
he's talking about. Most of the time when he
talks, I don't really know what he talks about
anymore because he goes from one thing to the
next. He's talking about Iran, he's talking
about IQs, who knows what he's even trying to
say there. But he said, hold us down, we're
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not gonna let these people win. This, by the
way, is the third time now that someone has
either shot at him or was shooting. at a place
where he sort of was and Trump was asked, why
do think this keeps happening to you? And here
is what he said and he said this not once but
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twice, let's listen. I've studied assassinations
and I must tell you the most impactful people,
the people that do the most. You take a look
at the people, Abraham Lincoln, I mean, you
go through the people that have gone through
this where they got them. But- The people that
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do the most, the people that make the biggest
impact, they're the ones that they go after.
They don't go after the ones that don't do
much cuz they like it that way. Really, if
you're a consequential president, you're in
much more danger than if you're not a consequential
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president. Most presidents are not very consequential.
They don't do the job that they're supposed
to be doing.
I don't know if that is even true. Some people
just assassinate people because they have
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a personal reason. There's a lot of reasons
why people get assassinated. uh President Garfield,
he was barely president when he got assassinated.
But I do want to show the audience that there
was a lot of chaos and it's not a laughing
matter, but this picture does make me laugh.
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Here's a picture of uh Stephen Miller using
his wife, his pregnant wife, seemingly as a
human shield. Now I do wanna give a shout out
to producer Ashley, did say giving him the
benefit of the doubt, maybe he was trying to
like get her out of there. But the way in which
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he chose to oh do this is very interesting.
There were a lot of comical images that came
out from the shooting. There was a man who just
kept eating while everything was going on.
There was RFK Jr's wife, who as RFK Jr was
being like. surrounded by these Secret Service
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agents. His wife was just running behind them
like, hello, hello, don't forget about me.
That's what happened at the White House Correspondence
Center. So it is very scary and we're going
to get to some of the aftermath of all of that.
But JR, is business as usual it seems in this
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country these days. Wasn't scary to a lot of
people there from what I saw. Let's not get
into that. But I guess you guys giving Stephen
Miller some credit for having his wife in front
of him leading her out first. And also I guess
there's a Secret Service agent behind him who's
also grabbing his boob as well. I guess it's
a soul train line of people running out with
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chests being grabbed, whatever. Sorry, so Donald
Trump after this happens, must have let everyone
know he's a tough guy. He didn't want it to
end. I want to go right back in there, bro.
Matter of fact, I didn't know what was going
on. I was sitting there looking around as these
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things were going on. I was like, wait, I thought
we're, let me not get into my thoughts about
that. But he seemed a little confused, but
he wanted to go right back in there because
what he's into is self promotion. He's the
presentation president. And then also when
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talking about this going on media tours, hitting
up every Fox News reporter that he can talk
to and show that he can go and talk about and
make himself seem like the most important person
in the world that everyone wants to target.
It only happens to the most consequential
people, the people who are willing to do crazy
things. They're really going over the top.
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I think the only people that want to come after
me because I'm just that amazing. Yo, I remember
when Barack Obama was in office and they talked
about how he's the Antichrist. They talk about
how he's trying to suppress all the rights of
pure white people in this country. That he's
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changing the entire world, race wars would get
started. That seems pretty consequential in
the way that people may want to get rid of him.
uh I guess he wasn't consequential enough.
Maybe Donald Trump just talks out of his ass
and does everything for the purpose of promoting
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himself and making himself look better. Which
is why, let's keep it real, the majority of
people are not buying this madness. I'm just
saying, he's even bringing up the war in Iran.
Maybe that's why he did it. Who knows? Maybe
that's what's going on. His family complained
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about how he hates Christians now. He went through
every kind of avenue that he could to try and
talk about how everything that this shooter
was up to was something that is going to make
him look better. Weird how that works for Donald
Trump who does nothing but try and make himself
look better even when he looks like trash. Yeah,
and it's so ironic that he gets up there,
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he's talking about Iran. We're going to get
to some more reasons as some other things that
he's talking about pertaining to this particular
incident. Again, this is the third time that
his life has been threatened by somebody.
It's a lot and there's a lot of misdirection
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it feels like. So you can't blame people for
being a little bit suspicious about this happening
again for the third time. Nothing he says is
real. We don't even know what's real anymore.
We can't trust anything that comes from anyone
in this administration because we know proven,
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we know that they lie to us. know that we can't,
the things that he says get contradicted either
by people within his own administration. Sometimes
even by himself and definitely by people from
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