Trump's Dinner Speech Cancelled After Gunfire Nearby

0:00It's April 26. From your city to your ears, this is Adelaide News today, powered by AI. A gunman hit a security checkpoint right outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington, just minutes before President Trump's speech at the White House. Correspondence Association dinner. Secret service shut everything down fast, canceling the whole event packed with journalists and big names. Trump's press secretary had hyped it on Fox News as classic Trump funny, entertaining, with some shots fired at the press. Trump skipped his dinner every year of his first term. The only sitting president to do that in over a century. He called the media fake news back then and stayed away. His last time there was back in 2011, when Barack Obama roasted him hard over the birther stuff, leaving Trump's stone face in the crowd. Guests inside dove under tables when shots rang out nearby. Folks like Erica Kirk, Whittle of Slane Organizer Charlie Kirk, and Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. got rushed out by security.

1:00Kennedy's dad was killed by gunfire decades ago, so this hit close to home for some. Trump, still in his tux, said later, he was geared up to really tear into the room, but now has to rewrite the speech to go easy. He joked it'd be the most inappropriate one ever otherwise, and promised to play nice next time. The dinner set to reschedule in about a month, so we'll see if Trump doused back the fire or brings the heat anyway. In a country flooded with guns, moments like this keep testing if leaders can bridge divides.