On Saturday night there was yet another incidence of gun violence in America. This time it took place at a the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner (WHCD) in Washington, D.C. where Donald Trump was attending for the first time as president. And unlike previous shootings at elementary schools or churches, Republicans are actually making demands that “something” be done about it.

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Less than an hour after the shooting, Trump was back at the White House giving reporters a carelessly premature account of what happened, complete with praise for himself mixed in with some for law enforcement. But most bizarre was his segue to justifying his vanity ballroom as a solution to the sort of shooting that occurred at the WHCD. It’s just the latest sales pitch for the architectural monstrosity that he is building. Earlier this year he made an impassioned (and deranged) plea for the pointless structure.

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In Trump’s post-shooting press conference he thought it was relevant to mention his ballroom project, asserting that it was necessary just for situations like this and falsely claiming that the Secret Service, the military, and unspecified others have been demanding it for 250 years.

Never mind that there is no way that the ballroom would have prevented this shooting. But that didn’t stop the White House from reportedly coordinating a social media campaign to advocate for the ballroom within minutes of the shooting. However, a private journalism organization could not have held their event on White House grounds. Although he is hosting a UFC fight there later this year, so you never know how low he will go.

Trump followed up his televised ballroom pitch the next morning with a comment posted on his dedicated propaganda platform, Truth Social, saying that…

“What happened last night is exactly the reason that our great Military, Secret Service, Law Enforcement and, for different reasons, every President for the last 150 years, have been DEMANDING that a large, safe, and secure Ballroom be built ON THE GROUNDS OF THE WHITE HOUSE. This event would never have happened with the Militarily Top Secret Ballroom currently under construction at the White House.” […]

“The ridiculous Ballroom lawsuit, brought by a woman walking her dog, who has absolutely No Standing to bring such a suit, must be dropped, immediately.”

Contrary to Trump’s ludicrous lie that the lawsuit challenging the ballroom was brought “by a woman walking her dog,” it was, in fact, brought by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, who argued that the administration failed to conduct mandatory reviews and get congressional approval for the $400 million dollar project. A federal judge agreed and temporarily halted the project pending compliance with the required legal processes. The judge also affirmed that the plaintiff had legal standing.

As for the alleged “dog walker” in Trump’s vivid imagination, it is likely Alison K. Hoagland, an architectural historian who submitted a declaration about the damage the proposed ballroom would cause to the White House, the neighborhood, and the social and cultural ambience of the city. But she is not the plaintiff. Also, she doesn’t have a dog.

While it is way too soon to speculate about the motives and details of the shooting, it’s hard not to wonder why this happened now, to a historically unpopular president who desperately needs a PR boost, at an event that he hated and would love to have sabotaged. The shooting provides a convenient benefit for Trump who appears to valiantly survive an assassination attempt, and the WHCD, where he has felt humiliated by comedians in the past, is cancelled. And you know that Trump wouldn’t want to sit through the awards to journalists who reported on his failures that were to be given out at the Dinner.

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Trump said that the Dinner would be rescheduled in 30 days. But with Trump, such promises almost never come to pass. The War against Iran was supposed to be over in less than 30 days, but now it’s been nearly twice that. And we’ve still never seen his healthcare plan, his taxes, or the rest of the Epstein files. So don’t hold your breath, America. In the meantime, ponder this…

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