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魏佳·江是哥伦比亚广播公司新闻驻华盛顿特区资深白宫通讯员。自2018年起，她一直负责报道白宫事务，包括两届总统政府的权力交接。2023年，江凭借对《CBS早间新闻》的报道贡献获得艾美奖。
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2026年4月25日，白宫记者协会晚宴期间响起枪声时，特朗普总统与哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的魏佳·江作出反应。路透社 摄
那晚的进展完全如计划之中。
作为白宫记者协会主席的八个月来，我一直在筹备这场晚宴。最重要的是，我曾希望它能恢复特朗普政府与媒体之间的些许常态。或许我太过天真，但我希望这能成为华盛顿少见的场景：一个两党齐聚的场合。而它确实做到了。
现场共有超过2500名记者和宾客盛装出席。企业高管、名人、大使以及内阁成员齐聚宴会厅，其中包括副总统J·D·万斯、国防部长皮特·赫格斯瑟、小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪、托德·布兰奇、国务卿马可·卢比奥、国土安全部部长马克韦恩·马伦——他们中许多人距离总统仅数英尺之遥。
最关键的人物当属唐纳德·特朗普：在抵制这场晚宴15年后，他终于决定出席。这也是他首次以总统身份参加该活动。
特朗普心情极佳。海军陆战队乐队刚演奏完《星条旗永不落》，总统正站在主席台。我们正聊起他上次出席晚宴的情景，当时巴拉克·奥巴马还是总统。
“你知道吗，所有人都觉得奥巴马讲的那些笑话让我不快，但其实我根本不在意，”我记得他当时这么对我说，这时我当晚邀请的心灵魔术师奥兹·珀尔曼上前请求暂停。他正在为新闻秘书卡罗琳·利夫特表演一个魔术，想请总统和我观看。
利夫特再过几天就要生产，她早些时候曾告诉我，珀尔曼声称能猜出她未出生孩子的名字。“他绝对不可能做到，”她说，“知道名字的人寥寥无几，这根本不可能。”
我们都驻足观看。坐在利夫特左侧的梅拉尼娅·特朗普看得十分投入。奥兹准备翻开一张用马克笔写着名字的纸条。
奥兹向第一夫人和利夫特揭晓了名字，我看着她的反应。她脸上的表情——震惊与喜悦——如今定格在我的脑海中，因为那是混乱爆发前我看到的最后一幕。
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就在那一刻，我们听到了骚动。我望向观众席，以为可能有抗议者。但我没看到任何人。
我还没来得及弄清楚眼前发生的一切，武装特工就冲向主席台。他们迅速增加人手，从舞台另一侧冲过来将我们团团围住。我听到有人大喊：“趴下，趴下，趴下，快趴下。”
我从椅子上站起来，跟着特朗普一起倒地。我也双手双膝着地。后来才发现左膝上有一大块淤青。我们爬着前进，被护送到舞台后方。
华盛顿希尔顿酒店宴会厅外响起枪声后，特朗普总统被紧急带离白宫记者协会晚宴现场。博·埃里克森 / 路透社 摄
我爬到等候区，节目制作人正在那里观看宴会厅内的实时画面直播。
里面不只有我的记者同行，还有我生命中最重要的人。混乱发生前不久，我与82岁的父亲对视了一眼，他朝我挥了挥手。他看起来很开心。他和我母亲都行动不便。“他们的轮椅在哪里？”我不禁想知道。谁来扶他们离开危险地带？我的丈夫和7岁的女儿也在场。她害怕吗？她哭了吗？我想抱抱她。
我在直播画面中搜寻他们的身影，浑身发抖。我向任何能听到我的人询问：发生了什么？怎么了？有人受伤吗？
我的职业生涯中报道过多起枪击案和谋杀案，包括2012年的桑迪胡克小学枪击案。但这是我第一次身处事件的另一方。没有人能为此做好准备。
一群先遣人员和特勤局人员涌了过来。“蓝色区域，蓝色区域！”一人喊道，冲向关押特朗普的房间。
当时有几则未经证实的新闻报道和推文。显然，有一名枪手和一起涉枪事件，但我得到的消息只是总统希望活动继续进行。他不想被此事打断。
过了一会儿，我回到台上，向所有人保证活动将继续进行。大家听到这话都松了口气。我们等了又等。随后一名先遣人员告诉我，总统想和我谈谈。我被总统最亲近的助手带进一个房间。
第一夫人站起身，朝我微笑。“你还好吗？”她问道。副总统万斯走进来，也问了同样的问题。国务卿卢比奥就在我身边。我反复听到有人说：“我们要回白宫。我们要回白宫。”
但总统不想离开。他告诉我他想回到台上。但他也说，他的演讲——他称之为“搞笑环节”——现在“完全不合时宜”。
他们决定30分钟后在白宫举行新闻发布会，我向宴会厅宣布了这一消息。全场笑了起来。我向他们保证这不是玩笑。
随后，我对着满屋子的记者补充道：“今晚早些时候我说过，新闻业是一项公共服务，因为在紧急时刻，我们会冲向危机现场，而非逃离。在我们思考第一修正案赋予的自由的夜晚，我们也必须想到这些自由有多么脆弱。”
我搭乘了等候我的总统车队。其他记者穿着高跟鞋跑向白宫。
枪击事件发生后，哥伦比亚广播公司新闻资深白宫通讯员魏佳·江在等待特朗普总统新闻发布会开始时打电话。内森·霍华德 / 盖蒂图片社 摄
他走向讲台时神情严肃。在通报嫌疑人的最新情况后，他点名让我提第一个问题。我想知道他意识到发生了什么时在想什么。
他说：“这类事情发生时总是令人震惊，这次发生在我身上时也一样，一点没变，我们现在就坐在这里，第一夫人在我右边，我听到一声响动，起初还以为是托盘掉了。”
特朗普承认这次枪击事件如何改变了他对与媒体关系的看法，这让我深受触动。他说：“这场活动本应致力于言论自由，旨在让两党成员与媒体人士齐聚一堂，从某种程度上说，它确实做到了，因为大家确实团结在了一起。我看到全场彻底团结起来。”
“团结”这个词我们如今已很少听到。但我也是这么想的。
特朗普坚持说我们会在30天后再次举办晚宴。拭目以待吧。
至于利夫特女婴的名字：我看到了。但还没有机会确认。
Weijia Jiang: I was on stage last night with the president. This is what I saw.
2026-04-26T12:12:00-0400 / CBS News
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Weijia Jiang is the senior White House correspondent for CBS News based in Washington, D.C. Jiang has covered the White House beat since 2018, including the transitions between presidential administrations. In 2023, Jiang won an Emmy Award for her contributions to “CBS Mornings.”
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President Trump and CBS News’ Weijia Jiang react as sounds of gunfire were heard at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, April 25, 2026. Reuters
The night was going exactly as planned.
For eight months, as president of the White House Correspondents Association, I’d been working on this dinner party. Above all, I had hoped it would restore some normalcy between the Trump administration and the press. Maybe I was naïve, but I wanted it to be a room we don’t see enough of in Washington: a bipartisan one. And it was.
There were more than 2,500 journalists and guests dressed to the nines. CEOs, celebrities, ambassadors and members of the cabinet including Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Todd Blanche, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin — many just feet from the president in the ballroom.
Most important was Donald Trump himself: after 15 years of boycotting the dinner, he finally decided to come. It was the first time he had attended as president.
Trump was in a great mood. The Marine Corps Band had just played The Star-Spangled Banner, and the president was on the dais. We were chatting about the last time he attended, when Barack Obama was president.
“You know, everyone thinks I was upset by all those jokes Obama made. But I really wasn’t,” I remember him telling me as Oz Pearlman — the mentalist I had booked for the night — asked if he could interrupt. He was doing a trick on the press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, and he wanted the president and me to watch.
Leavitt is due to give birth in a matter of days, and she’d told me earlier that Pearlman claimed he’d figure out the name of her unborn baby. “There’s no way he would ever be able to do that,” she said. “Very few people know it. It’s impossible.”
We all watched. Melania Trump, seated to Leavitt’s left, was quite engaged. Oz prepared to turn over a piece of paper with a name scribbled on it with a Sharpie.
Oz revealed a name to the first lady and Leavitt, and I watched her reaction. The look on her face—shock and delight—is an image now frozen in my mind, because it’s the last thing I saw before chaos unfolded.
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At that very moment, we heard commotion. I looked out in the audience and thought there might have been a heckler. But I didn’t see one.
Before I could make sense of what was unfolding, armed agents rushed toward the dais. They multiplied quickly, sprinting from the other side of the stage to surround us. I heard shouts of “down, down, down, get down.”
I got out of my chair and was following Trump when he hit the ground. I got on my hands and knees too. Only later did I see a big bruise on my left knee. I was crawling, and we were ushered behind the stage.
President Trump is rushed out of the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner after shots were fired outside the ballroom at the Washington Hilton. Bo Erickson / REUTERS
I crawled to the holding area, where the show producers were watching the video feeds of the live images from inside the ballroom.
Inside weren’t just my fellow journalists but also the most important people in my life. Moments before the chaos unfolded, I locked eyes with my 82-year-old father who waved to me. He looked happy. He and my mom both struggle with mobility. “Where are their wheelchairs?” I wanted to know. Who’s going to push them out of danger? My husband and my 7-year-old daughter were there too. Was she scared? Was she crying? I wanted to hold her.
I scanned the feeds looking for them, shaking. I asked anyone who could hear me: What happened? What’s wrong? Did anyone get hurt?
I have covered many shootings and murders in my career, including Sandy Hook in 2012. But this was the first time I found myself on the other side. No one can prepare you for it.
There was a rush of advance guys and Secret Service guys. “Blue, blue!” one said, rushing toward the room where Trump was being held.
There were several unverified news reports and tweets. Clearly, there was a situation with a shooter and a gun, but the information I had was just that the president wants the show to go on. He did not want to be deterred.
At some point, I went back on stage and assured everyone that the show would go on. People were glad to hear that. We waited and waited. Then one of the advance guys told me the president wanted to talk to me. I was led into a room by the president’s closest aides.
The first lady was standing and offered me a smile. “Are you OK?” she asked. Vice President Vance entered and asked the same.Secretary Rubio was next to me. I just kept hearing, “We’re going to the White House. We’re going to the White House.”
But the president did not want to go. He told me that he wanted to get back on stage. But also that his speech — a “shtick,” he called it — would now be “totally inappropriate.”
They decided on a press conference at the White House in 30 minutes, which I announced to the ballroom. The room laughed. I assured them it wasn’t a joke.
Then, to the room of reporters, I added: “I said earlier tonight that journalism is a public service, because when there is an emergency, we run to the crisis, not away from it. And on a night when we are thinking about the freedoms in the First Amendment, we must also think about how fragile they are.”
I got a ride with the presidential motorcade, which had waited for me. Other reporters ran to the White House in their heels.
CBS News senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang speaks on the phone as she awaits the start of President Trump’s press conference after the shooting. Nathan Howard / Getty Images
He looked solemn as he walked to the podium. After he gave an update about the suspect, he called on me to ask the first question. I wanted to know what he was thinking when he realized what was going on.
He said, “It was always shocking when something like this happens, happened to me, a little bit, and that never changes the fact we’re sitting right next to each other, first lady on my right, and I heard a noise, and sort of thought it was a tray.”
I was struck when Trump acknowledged how the shooting shaped his view of his relationship with the press. He said, “This was an event dedicated to freedom of speech that was supposed to bring together members of both parties with members of the press, and in a certain way, it did, because the fact that they just unified. I saw a room that was just totally unified.”
Unity isn’t a word we hear much these days. But that’s how I felt, too.
Trump insists we are having the dinner again in 30 days. Let’s see.
As for the name of Leavitt’s baby girl: I saw it. But I haven’t had a chance to confirm it.
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