2026-04-26T06:04:18.168Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：杰里米·赫布、凯文·利普塔克
56分钟前发布 | 2026年4月26日美国东部时间凌晨2:04
美国总统唐纳德·特朗普与第一夫人梅拉尼娅·特朗普于周六在华盛顿特区华盛顿希尔顿酒店出席白宫记者协会晚宴。
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美国东部时间周六晚上8点30分刚过，唐纳德·特朗普总统与第一夫人梅拉尼娅·特朗普就已在华盛顿希尔顿酒店宽敞宴会厅的舞台上就座，正与当晚的娱乐嘉宾、心灵术士奥兹·珀尔曼轻松互动。
就在宴会厅外，一名男子手持霰弹枪冲过安检点，与随后追来的特勤局特工交火，据事件公布的监控录像显示。
短短几秒内，枪手就被特勤局制服——当时他本可闯入宴会厅，而那里正聚集着总统、特朗普政府官员、国会议员以及美国部分最知名的记者和编辑，共同出席年度白宫记者协会晚宴。
特勤局特工在周六白宫记者协会晚宴期间于唐纳德·特朗普总统与第一夫人梅拉尼娅·特朗普身旁应对突发事件。
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在人头攒动的宴会厅内，宾客们已就座，正享用布拉塔奶酪配黄瓜沙拉，这时他们意识到当晚的活动发生了可怕转折。宴会厅门外接连传来爆裂声，原本喧闹的交谈声迅速归于沉寂。
身处事发楼层下方的宴会厅内的人们起初并不清楚那是什么声响。就连总统本人也没能立刻弄清发生了什么。特朗普事后在白宫表示，他最初以为是一整托盘餐盘掉在了地上：“这种声音我听过很多次。”当时他仍身着晚宴礼服。
但当大批武装执法人员从各个入口涌入宴会厅时，人们才意识到发生了严重事件。“趴下”的呼喊声席卷全场，宾客和酒店服务员纷纷躲到椅子和桌子下方。
主桌几乎立刻被清空。副总统JD·万斯被从桌旁拉开，带往舞台左侧。据舞台侧面的视频显示，当持步枪的特工冲向舞台前方时，总统的特勤局安保团队将他团团围住。在撤离过程中，总统似乎短暂摔倒在地，随后与第一夫人被迅速带往酒店的安全房间。与他同坐一桌的人则被带到走廊另一侧的单独房间。
宾客们在周六年度白宫记者协会晚宴突发枪击事件后躲到桌子下方。
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“我们都吓坏了”
当时选择在主菜上桌前离开宴会厅的晚宴宾客，包括CNN的沃尔夫·布利策，不幸将自己置于了危险之中。布利策刚从宴会厅外的洗手间出来，就看到枪手就在离他几英尺远的地方。
“我开始听到紧邻我的走廊里传来枪声，紧接着一名警察就把我按倒在地，压在我身上，”布利策说道。“枪声震耳欲聋，令人恐惧，我们所有人都吓坏了。我们完全不知道发生了什么。”
这位CNN主播被带回男洗手间，他表示，自己和其他十几个人在那里躲避等待局势平息。
他在混乱中弄丢了一只鞋子。
据执法官员透露，枪手在冲向安检点时携带了一把霰弹枪、一把手枪和多把刀具。特朗普后来告诉记者，一名特勤局特工在交火中胸部中弹，由于穿着防弹背心，他被送往医院后并无大碍。
据公共记录显示，执法官员确认嫌疑枪手为科尔·托马斯·艾伦，现年31岁，来自洛杉矶郊区，职业为教师和视频游戏开发者。官员们表示，他是酒店的在册住客，看起来是单独行动。
华盛顿特区市长穆里尔·鲍瑟在周六白宫记者协会晚宴枪击事件后的新闻发布会上发言。
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华盛顿特区市长穆里尔·鲍瑟称，嫌疑人未被枪击击中，但正在当地一家医院接受治疗。
特朗普随后在社交媒体上公布了枪手冲过安检点的监控录像，以及嫌疑人被执法人员制服在地的照片。
回到宴会厅内，现场陷入沉寂，偶尔夹杂着惊呼声。一些晚宴宾客躲到椅子和桌子后面，而包括记者在内的许多人则掏出手机记录下这一历史性时刻。
作为新闻机构宾客前来的内阁成员——意味着他们分散在挤得水泄不通的宴会厅的各个桌席上——被各自的安保团队迅速带离现场，安保人员一边冲向宴会厅，一边对着通讯设备大声喊话。可以听到一名安保人员通过无线电高喊“发生枪击”。
警官们对宴会厅进行了搜查，有时甚至爬上椅子，大声喊出他们要带走的官员姓名，找到后便将其从人群中带出。被紧急带离的高级官员数量之多，凸显出有多少总统继任顺位人员、特朗普和万斯一同聚集在这个拥挤的场所。
众议院议长迈克·约翰逊在周六年度白宫记者协会晚宴枪击事件发生时被疏散。
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当宾客们趴在地板上时，有人高声喊道：“上帝保佑美国。”
司法部官员哈米特·迪隆在X平台上表示，一名特勤局特工跑过她的桌子时，她的头部撞出了瘀伤，她感谢美国法警将她安全送回家。
最终，随着警官们撤离宴会厅，宾客们开始从地上起身。由于场地位于地下且人员拥挤，活动现场的手机信号极差（酒店确实提供了Wi-Fi——部分原因是方便宾客上网为各自的桌席购买更多葡萄酒）。但许多人仍尝试拨打新闻编辑部或家人的电话，告知最新情况。
这项年度活动在华盛顿希尔顿酒店举行，酒店位于白宫西北方向略超过一英里处。1981年，罗纳德·里根总统曾在该酒店外遭遇暗杀未遂枪击。
匆忙返回白宫
随着时间推移，宴会厅内的人们并不清楚活动是否还能继续。曾有一度，一名播音员鼓励宾客们稍作等候，甚至暗示牛排和龙虾主菜仍会上桌。
特朗普和白宫记者协会主席、CBS白宫记者蒋维佳最初都希望活动继续进行。蒋维佳告诉仍留在宴会厅的宾客，活动很快就会恢复。据一名政府官员透露，特朗普当时正身处酒店的一处安全地点，他希望返回晚宴现场。
唐纳德·特朗普总统在周六年度白宫记者协会晚宴遭遇不明威胁后，于白宫詹姆斯·布雷迪新闻发布厅回答记者提问。
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但特勤局不同意这一做法——最终执法部门的观点占了上风。
“我拼尽全力想要留下，”特朗普在新闻发布会上说道，“但这是规程。”
距离枪手冲向安检点大约一小时后，特朗普宣布将返回白宫举行新闻发布会，此时酒店外已开始排起撤离队伍。方圆多个街区的安全警戒区域让撤离变得更加困难。
身着正装的白宫记者们冲到街拦下车辆，沿着康涅狄格大道驱车1.5英里赶回总统府。
当特朗普出现在詹姆斯·S·布雷迪新闻发布厅——该厅以1981年希尔顿酒店暗杀未遂事件中受伤的里根新闻秘书命名——时，他身旁站着万斯和他的高级执法官员。特朗普感谢了蒋维佳的工作，并表示奇怪的是，整场事件让满屋子的政治对手和媒体变得“完全团结”。
“这非常出人意料，但特勤局和执法部门的应对极为迅速，”特朗普说道。
在一旁，另一个人静静地听着：第一夫人梅拉尼娅，她和丈夫一样，被迅速带往酒店地下室的安全房间。
“对她来说那是一段相当创伤的经历，”特朗普承认，“当时上面很快就发生了很多状况。”
梅拉尼娅·特朗普并未出现在丈夫此前的两起暗杀未遂事件现场，分别是在宾夕法尼亚州巴特勒和佛罗里达州西棕榈滩。她长期以来一直对家人的安全表示担忧。对她而言，周六的事件让她职位所面临的安全风险变得尤为清晰。
“她无数次跟我说，‘你的工作很危险’，但这对她来说也一样危险。我的意思是，这对她来说也不安全，”特朗普说道。
后来，当一名记者问她是否愿意就当晚的事件发表看法时，她婉拒了。
How Washington’s biggest annual dinner transformed into chaos — and a crime scene
2026-04-26T06:04:18.168Z / CNN
By Jeremy Herb, Kevin Liptak
56 min ago
PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2026, 2:04 AM ET
US First Lady Melania Trump and US President Donald Trump attend the White House Correspondents’ dinner at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC, on Saturday.
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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump were seated on the stage of the cavernous Washington Hilton ballroom just after 8:30 p.m. ET Saturday evening, playfully engaging with the evening’s entertainer, mentalist Oz Pearlman.
Just outside, a man sprinted through a security checkpoint with a shotgun in hand, exchanging fire with Secret Service agents who chased behind him, according to security footage released of the incident.
Within seconds, the gunman was subdued by Secret Service — before he could reach the ballroom where the president, Trump administration officials, members of Congress and some of the nation’s most prominent reporters and editors were all in attendance for the annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.
Secret Service agents respond near President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump during the White House Correspondents Dinner, on Saturday.
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Inside the jammed ballroom, guests had taken their seats and were picking away at burrata and cucumber salads when it became clear the evening had taken a frightening turn. Cracking sounds in quick succession from outside the ballroom doors caused the loud hum of conversation to quickly turn silent.
It wasn’t obvious to those inside the room — situated a level below where the incident occurred — what the sounds were. Even the president himself wasn’t immediately sure what had happened. Trump’s first thought was a tray full of dinner plates crashing to the floor: “I’ve heard that many times,” he would say later from the White House, still wearing his tuxedo from the event.
But as law enforcement agents, many armed, fanned into the room from all the entrances, it became obvious a serious incident had occurred. Shouts of “get down” swept across the ballroom as guests and hotel servers dived underneath chairs and tables to take cover.
The head table was cleared almost immediately. Vice President JD Vance was pulled back from the table and taken off to the left of the stage. As agents with rifles ran to the front of the stage, the president’s Secret Service detail surrounded him, according to video from the side of the stage. As he was being evacuated, the president appeared to briefly fall to the floor before he and the first lady were whisked to a secure room in the hotel. Those sitting alongside him were taken to a separate room down the hall.
Attendees hide under tables after an incident at the annual White House Correspondents Association Dinner on Saturday.
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‘It scared all of us’
Dinner attendees who had chosen that moment to leave the ballroom before the main course was served, including CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, had unfortunately put themselves in harm’s way. Blitzer had just left a restroom outside the ballroom when he saw the gunman just feet away from him.
“I start hearing gunshots in the hall right near me, and the next thing I knew, a police officer threw me to the ground and was on top of me,” Blitzer said. “The gunshots were so loud, so frightening that it scared all of us. We had no idea what was going on.”
The CNN anchor was taken back into the men’s restroom, where he and more than a dozen others sheltered in place, he said.
He lost a shoe in the commotion.
As the gunman charged the checkpoint, he was armed with a shotgun, a handgun and multiple knives, according to law enforcement officials. A Secret Service agent was shot in the chest during the exchange of gunfire and was OK after being taken to a hospital thanks to the bulletproof vest he was wearing, Trump later told reporters.
The suspected gunman was identified by law enforcement officials as Cole Tomas Allen, a 31-year-old from a Los Angeles suburb who worked as a teacher and video game developer, according to public records. Officials said that he was a registered guest at the hotel and appeared to have acted alone.
District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks at a press conference following a shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in Washington, on Saturday.
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The suspect was not struck by gunfire but was receiving treatment as a local hospital, according to Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser.
Trump later on social media released the security footage of the gunman racing through the security checkpoint, as well as a photo of the suspect subdued by law enforcement on the floor.
Back in the ballroom, silence took hold, punctuated by occasional gasps. Some dinner attendees ducked behind chairs and tables, while many — reporters among them — pulled out their phones to capture the historic moment.
Cabinet members who came as guests of news organizations — meaning they were scattered at tables across the tightly packed ballroom — were hurried from the room by their own security details, who barked into their communication devices as they rushed from the banquet hall. One could be heard declaring “shots fired” into his radio.
Officers combed the room, in some instances mounting chairs to call out the names of officials they were looking to remove before finding them and plucking them from the crowd. The number of high-ranking officials being rushed out illustrated just how many people in the line of presidential succession, along with Trump and Vance, were gathered in one crowded place.
House Speaker Mike Johnson is evacuated as a shooter opens fire during the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday.
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As guests flattened themselves on the floor, one voice called out: “God bless America.”
Justice Department official Harmeet Dhillon said on X that she had a bruise on her head from a Secret Service agent running across her table, thanking the US Marshals for getting her home safely.
Eventually, as officers exited the room, guests began to rise from the floor. Underground and crowded, cell phone service at the event was notoriously bad (the hotel did provide Wi-Fi — partly so attendees could go online to buy more wine for their tables). But many tried placing calls to newsrooms or family members with updates.
The annual event takes place at the Washington Hilton, located a little more than a mile northwest of the White House. President Ronald Reagan was shot outside the hotel in an assassination attempt in 1981.
Racing to the White House
As the evening progressed, it wasn’t clear inside the room whether the program would proceed. At one point, an announcer encouraged guests to stand by, even suggesting the steak and lobster course would still be served.
Both Trump and the White House Correspondents Association president, CBS White House correspondent Weijia Jiang, initially wanted to continue with the program. Jiang told those still in the ballroom that the program would be resuming shortly. Trump, meanwhile, was holding in a secure location in the hotel and wanted to return to the venue, according to an administration official.
President Donald Trump answers reporter questions in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House after an unspecified threat at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in Washington, on Saturday.
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But Secret Service did not want him to — and the law enforcement view ultimately won out.
“I fought like hell to stay,” Trump said at his press conference. “But it’s protocol.”
By the time Trump announced he would be returning to the White House to deliver a press conference — almost exactly an hour after the shooter had charged the security checkpoint — lines had begun forming to exit the hotel. A security perimeter many blocks wide made leaving more difficult.
White House reporters in formal wear scrambled outside to flag down cars, racing the mile and a half back down Connecticut Avenue to the executive mansion.
When Trump emerged in the James S. Brady briefing room — named for Reagan’s press secretary who was wounded in that 1981 assassination attempt at the Hilton — he was flanked by Vance and his top law enforcement officials. Trump thanked Jiang for her work and said that the whole ordeal had, strangely enough, caused the room full of political adversaries and the press to become “totally unified.”
“It was very unexpected, but incredibly acted upon by Secret Service and law enforcement,” Trump said.
Off to the side, another individual was listening quietly: the first lady, who like her husband had been whisked into the secure room in the hotel basement.
“That was a rather traumatic experience for her,” Trump acknowledged. “There was a lot of action taking place up there very quickly.”
Melania Trump was not at her husband’s side during two previous assassination attempts, in Butler, Pennsylvania, and in West Palm Beach, Florida. She has long voiced concern for her family’s safety. For her, Saturday’s incident placed the security risks of her position into sharp focus.
“She’s told me numerous times, she said, ‘You are in a dangerous job,’ but that goes along with her too. I mean, it’s dangerous for her too,” Trump said.
Later, when a reporter asked if she might offer her own thoughts on the evening, she demurred.