The Alan Trustman Affair [Lex]

Most people don’t know the name Alan Trustman. But they do know The Thomas Crown Affair starring Steve McQueen. Alan Trustman wrote that movie, and his story as a screenwriter is at once inspiring and infuriating.

I was friendly with him, and that itself is an inspiring and infuriating story. I had lost touch with him the past few years, but recently my father gave me Alan’s obituary, which he saw in The Boston Globe. Alan died on March 5th at the age of 95.

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I graduated from Boston University’s film school in 1998 where I concentrated in screenwriting. In the early 2000s, I teamed with another writer to pen a number of scripts which we shopped to Hollywood. Many of our screenplays were Boston-set, of the true-crime or suspense variety.

Though his career as a Hollywood scribe was long since over, Alan Trustman, a Beantown native, was someone you sought out if you wanted to discuss Boston crime stories. I can’t remember how I first got in touch with him, but in the early 2000s we began to correspond by email.

Before the days of doxxing, people were less guarded about protecting their locations, and I frequently noted the signature line of Alan’s emails, which listed his retirement address—a place called Fisher Island in Florida.

Our correspondence petered out, but in 2005 I met a woman who was to become my wife (eventually ex-wife). As the relationship deepened, I was invited by her father to visit him in Florida, Fisher Island to be exact.

Fisher Island is an islet off Miami Beach. You can walk around it in thirty minutes. Not everyone knows everyone on Fisher Island, but when I mentioned to my former father-in-law I had exchanged emails with Alan Trustman, who also lived on the island, it didn’t take long for him to track Alan down.

After that, I would see Alan a couple times per year. Maybe once in Florida and then sometimes when he was back in Brookline/Chestnut Hill for the summer, where my wife’s family lived, as did Trustman when not snow-birding.

At the time, I was still making attempts to sell my own scripts while paying the bills in the family real estate business. Alan’s advice to me was consistently –and bitterly—as follows: forget screenwriting, stick with real estate.

I always listened patiently but was annoyed. ‘You had your time in the sun’ I thought, so why attempt to talk me out of going for it? Why be so negative about a passion people spend many years cultivating?

In one sense he was correct: screenwriting is a tough row to hoe. You’re unlikely to be able to support a family pursuing it. Even if you can grab a little success, you’ll eventually hit a dry spell. I knew this to be true, having many screenwriting friends and acquaintances who were on top of the world after selling something one year and then broke or waiting tables the next. There are only a handful of writers who spend their entire careers living off the income screenwriting provides.

Even so, one can be realistic without being discouraging, and Alan routinely chose the latter. What irked me more was he had put almost no time into developing himself as a writer before rocketing to the top.

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One of the first lines in Alan’s obituary notes he had nothing to do with the film industry or any kind of creative writing until one night, in his mid-30s, he was so disgusted by a bad movie he saw, he vowed he could do better.

I never got the full story on how his script made it to Hollywood and eventually Steve McQueen, but Alan did work for a prominent law firm and probably a few calls via the old boys network got him access.

It’s a story that is inspiring because we have all been there. We see a movie (or many, many movies) that are horrible and say 'I can do better than that.'
But I was never able to dash something off, make a few phone calls, and leapfrog to the top. I would say Alan’s story is nearly unique in this regard, which is why it’s so frustrating.

According to the obituary, “Although he had never written a line except for contracts and legal briefs, Mr. Trustman spent every Sunday afternoon for two months hammering out a script about a bank heist. When the William Morris Agency quickly sold The Thomas Crown Affair script to United Artists, he felt like Lana Turner, the star who was discovered ‘sipping a malt in a drugstore.’”

Yes, there are discoveries in screenwriting every day. In fact, that’s how it almost always goes. A writer, struggling for years, finally gets his or her script to the right producer or an agent takes a shine to a screenplay and brings it to studios. When the sale is made, the nobody becomes the toast of the town.

Except, with Alan, he did it on his first try. Only a few months into his new endeavor he not only completed a script, but also sold it—a feature that actually got made (when so many get lost in development hell), snagging one of the biggest stars of the day.

I don’t know whether to celebrate an industry that picks winners and losers like this or feel thankful it could happen to anyone, at any time.

Over the years, as I have presumably become wiser, I’ve recognized the Alan Trustman path to success is an indictment of the system, not a cause to celebrate it.

All it really demonstrates is that Alan had a good idea and got that idea to the right person. I doubt the original script he wrote was earth shattering, but it was a good vehicle for McQueen and his agents recognized it. Alan was lucky he wasn’t rewritten and cast aside, but for most this is the rule.

I never understood this about Hollywood. How can you praise something so highly and laud the writer who birthed it but quickly bring in others to redo the work? Clearly you didn’t think the script you proclaimed to be superb was really that. You probably liked the idea and thought it could eventually be worked into a movie, but rather than admit this is how most scripts get selected, you pretend the screenplay and the writer are the finds of the century.

It’s a gestalt everyone in the system is in on, and the system will circle the wagons rather than admit its dishonesty. It’s like listening to professional wrestlers insist matches are not staged.

Part of the trick is Hollywood convincing you they know something more. That they can judge material and potential in a far better way than an outsider can. After 25 years of observing this, I can say with definitiveness, they cannot. If you doubt me look at the amount of movies produced each year. Maybe 10% are good to superior; the rest could have been written by the first 100 people in the Cambridge telephone book (hat tip to William Buckley).

These days, the better writing is to be found in television and independent cinema, but most successful, contemporary feature scribes working toward Hollywood glitter can’t pull off what Alan did. They do put in years before breaking through, but that still doesn’t mean what they produce is beyond the ken of most reasonably intelligent people.

Nevertheless, Alan’s story is a slap in the face to all the people who grinded for years before getting a seat at the table. And it’s even more of a blow to so many talented people who never got a break but possessed similar skills and ideas. Screenwriting success is maybe 20% talent and the rest luck and timing. But few in Tinseltown will cop to this.

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Why am I going on about Alan Trustman, a relatively minor player in the history of Hollywood? If I hadn’t come to know him personally, I might have nothing to say. But because he had instant success with minimal effort, while at the same time advising me to abandon my own dreams, his passing engendered many conflicting thoughts. Both anger and appreciation for his success, as well as the same for an industry that operates this way. I love movies and have devoted much of my life to the cinema in one form or another, but I hate the process by which many films are developed—and even more the lionization of that process.

I haven’t even discussed Steve McQueen and the movies Trustman wrote for him, The Thomas Crown Affair, and, perhaps, equally noteworthy, Bullitt. They are both solid movies, but I never was a McQueen guy. Nothing against him, but I suppose I’m more of a Lee Marvin or Charles Bronson and The Dirty Dozen fan as opposed to McQueen and The Great Escape.

Alan’s screenplays were also solid. He wrote a few more after he parted ways with McQueen, and his run as a successful screenwriter came to an end in the mid 1970s.

Would Alan have had the same success if he tried to break into the business today. I don’t think Trustman was the kind of high concept scribe every manager and producer is looking for these days. He wrote good screenplays with taut dialogue. They were well-structured and paced.

There really is something to be said for simplicity, and that may be why mainstream American movies are in such dire straights right now. Instead of telling interesting stories with clearly defined dramatic purposes, it’s a race to the bottom for the most surprising hook one can conjure. Either that or another sequel.

Originality is at an all-time low, and so perhaps Hollywood wouldn’t be a fit for a sui generis kind of writer like Alan. Whatever the case, rest in peace, Mr. Trustman. You have inspired and bedeviled me, and that is, perhaps, the mark of any effective writer.

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1 Interesting story

Posted by: MkY at April 25, 2026 07:24 PM (q6tQZ)

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Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at April 25, 2026 07:24 PM (WQvhz)

3 I suspect there are tremendous, interesting authors whose books never see the light of day.
Screenwriters the same.
Musicians by the score (heh).

Posted by: MkY at April 25, 2026 07:26 PM (q6tQZ)

4 Reading content like a newbie
Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2026 07:33 PM (Ia/+0)

5 Seka had a similar start. She owned a chain of Adult Bookstores in the 80s. After watching a few of the movies in her shops, see said to herself, I can do better. And a star was born.

Posted by: MurcanDownunder at April 25, 2026 07:33 PM (IyQVv)

6 I had not realized the same guy wrote both Thomas Crown Affair and Bullitt. Could be because I have never seen all of the first movie. Don't know why; I love heist films. I'm not much of a McQueen fan, so maybe that explains it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2026 07:34 PM (+2QQb)

7 ...gratest hits...
For once, Mary C. was right about something.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 25, 2026 07:36 PM (XMwZJ)

8 What is the difference screenwriter and a Pizza?
A pizza ca feed a family of 4.

What do you call a screenwriter with a mortgage?
An optimist.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 25, 2026 07:38 PM (YBtcQ)

9 There really is something to be said for simplicity, and that may be why mainstream American movies are in such dire straights right now. Instead of telling interesting stories with clearly defined dramatic purposes, it’s a race to the bottom for the most surprising hook one can conjure. Either that or another sequel.

Pardon me..... "story?"

Posted by: 30,000 geeks in the CGI department at April 25, 2026 07:38 PM (VHUov)

10 Probably not alone here, I think Steve McQueen was awesome.
I like Thomas Crown Affair a lot and Magnificent Seven is inmy top 10 Westerns

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2026 07:39 PM (Ia/+0)

11 His most famous other screenwriting credit was the sequel to IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT, which was called THEY CALL ME MR TIBBS

Posted by: Lex at April 25, 2026 07:40 PM (y4H1r)

12
I never understood this about Hollywood. How can you praise something so highly and laud the writer who birthed it but quickly bring in others to redo the work?

___________

Isn't the publishing business the same? Don't even successful novels go through an editor?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2026 07:41 PM (tgvbd)

13 One thing watching TJM's videos on directors is I never paid attention who directed the movies I watch yet alone who wrote it, except famous books the movie might came from.
Had no ide The Plumber was a Peter Weir movie, didn't carr really.

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2026 07:41 PM (Ia/+0)

14 1 fascinating.
mcqueen competed sucessfully in motorsports. importantly to me, desert and scrambles racing. accomplished on highly modified pieces of british crap, which makes it all the more impressive. well done, marine.

Posted by: cmeat at April 25, 2026 07:42 PM (R11M+)

15 Probably not alone here, I think Steve McQueen was awesome.
I like Thomas Crown Affair a lot and Magnificent Seven is inmy top 10 Westerns
Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2026

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He always delivered on screen. You might not like the character he plays -- Bullitt is an arrogant son-of-a-gun, for instance (though in the last analysis a good cop) -- but McQueen always delivered.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2026 07:42 PM (+2QQb)

16 >>>“Although he had never written a line except for contracts and legal briefs [ . . . ]

Some of the best writers of clean, open prose are lawyers, accountants, people who write case and contact reports, and whatever they call people who write advertising copy.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2026 07:43 PM (rbvCR)

17 Lex one would think that Alan had a good run then. Can't say one way or other that means big money or not.

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2026 07:43 PM (Ia/+0)

18 "How can you praise something so highly and laud the writer who birthed it but quickly bring in others to redo the work?"

Good question.
And then along comes Drew Goddard who adapts Andy Weir books and now walks around town with a big turban made of $500 bills.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2026 07:43 PM (gKWVE)

19 Interesting story, Lex. Sometime fate hands success to someone and none of us can figure out "Why him?"

But it sounds like he had talent, and was lucky enough to ride that for a while. I don't resent someone's success as I don't think it's a zero-sum game.

I used to think I was going to be a world-famous something-or-other. But now I'm OK that I'm not. I've done what I thought I wanted to do and that...is fine.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 25, 2026 07:45 PM (CHHv1)

20 I put Great Escape as my #5 best war movies

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2026 07:45 PM (Ia/+0)

21 One thing watching TJM's videos on directors is I never paid attention who directed the movies I watch yet alone who wrote it, except famous books the movie might came from.
Had no ide The Plumber was a Peter Weir movie, didn't carr really.
Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2026

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I didn't notice directors too much either for many years. During the Sniffle Scare, though, watching movies on YooToob, I came to appreciate Carol Reed, the British director; I'd already been exposed to David Lean; and Billy Wilder is probably the one director (especially if he also wrote or co-wrote the script) who draws me every time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2026 07:46 PM (+2QQb)

22 12....The difference with novels is a novel goes to an agent and then they sell it to a publishing house and it goes into production, and that's it. With a script, you might sell it and the studio does nothing or kicks you off and hires another writer. Or a manager/agent takes you on because they like a script you wrote but it's only the next script you write that they try to sell. For many people, this takes years. Trustman hit the jackpot on all levels. His first script got representation, then bought, then made, and he was not replaced so got full screenwriting credit--visibly so since McQueen was the hottest thing going then.

Posted by: Lex at April 25, 2026 07:46 PM (y4H1r)

23
I put Great Escape as my #5 best war movies

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2026 07:45 PM (Ia/+0)

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I never, ever, ever get tired of watching it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2026 07:46 PM (tgvbd)

24 I don't know which is worse......

Yoko Ono Singing or listening to Kami Harris Cackle for an hour ????

Posted by: Jackson K. at April 25, 2026 07:47 PM (xl8DV)

25 Isn't the publishing business the same? Don't even successful novels go through an editor?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2026 07:41 PM (tgvbd)
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An editor is one thing.

The Executive Meddling by Hollywood committees is on a whole other level.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2026 07:48 PM (gnNyN)

26 19...Good comment. I don't resent his success. I was more resentful he seemed to advise me not to try. It's definitely not a zero sum game; there are just only so many slots available to be a working screenwriter or outlets where you can sell a script for life changing amounts, so naturally some people just don't hit it the way others do, though they may be just as talented.

Posted by: Lex at April 25, 2026 07:49 PM (y4H1r)

27 You sound ... bitter.

Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at April 25, 2026 07:49 PM (zdQuL)

28 When I was an assistant teaching pro I was told my pro was giving a lesson to the guy who assisted on the screenplay for The Deer Hunter and wrote the screenplay for the Bonfire of the Vanities IIRC. Couldn't remember his name until I just looked it up.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 25, 2026 07:50 PM (kxLc1)

29 The story from Robert Vaughn in his memoir A Fortunate Life is that he was good friends with McQueen. Steve asked RV, "Where do you get your hair cut?" "Mostly on movie sets," Vaughn replied. "Well, try this guy, he's great."

"This guy" was Jay Sebring, who later died with Sharon Tate in the Manson case. Vaughn says Sebring invited him over several times for small gatherings; RV knew Sharon, who'd appeared on U.N.C.L.E. He didn't think it sounded like his speed. If he'd accepted that infamous night, we might be talking to this day about the Vaughn-Tate murders. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2026 07:51 PM (+2QQb)

30 McQueen made some good movies and some mediocre one's. Favorite McQueen movie: The Getaway.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2026 07:51 PM (jXvKN)

31
- but McQueen always delivered.

He couldn't beat Edward G. Robinson at poker.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2026 07:53 PM (Cqx++)

32 I put Great Escape as my #5 best war movies

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2026 07:45 PM (Ia/+0

You know who wrote that screenplay? James Clavell. Another interesting thing is Clavell also directed To Sir With Love.

That is a guy who made a living writing screenplays. Okay also best selling novels.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 25, 2026 07:54 PM (kxLc1)

33 McQueen? Try The Sand Pebbles.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at April 25, 2026 07:54 PM (q3u5l)

34 McQueen? Try The Sand Pebbles.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at April 25, 2026 07:54 PM (q3u5l)

Anti American but pretty good.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 25, 2026 07:55 PM (kxLc1)

35 Papillon is my favorite McQueen movie.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 25, 2026 07:56 PM (kxLc1)

36 Well written Lex.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2026 07:57 PM (2WIwB)

37 Watched last night: A High Wind in Jamaica, staring Anthony Quinn and James Coburn, otherwise to be known as A Pedophiles Dream.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2026 07:57 PM (jXvKN)

38 Oh dear.
I thought Quinn's big pdf movie was al-Risalah / the Message, given its protag.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2026 07:58 PM (gKWVE)

39 Sand Pebbles. Agree.

Posted by: Eromero at April 25, 2026 07:59 PM (LHPAg)

40 Le Mans, all other Steve McQueen is irrelevant

Posted by: Ghost of Turbines past at April 25, 2026 08:02 PM (jrgJz)

41
That is a guy who made a living writing screenplays. Okay also best selling novels.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 25, 2026 07:54 PM (kxLc1)

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Almost seems like those would be antithetical. Like all the lush descriptions and internal monologues of the characters are exactly what's not needed in a screenplay.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2026 08:03 PM (tgvbd)

42 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7moDAITGcw

Posted by: Ghost of Turbines past at April 25, 2026 08:03 PM (jrgJz)

43 Interesting essay thanks Lex. although I love movies I have little to no interest in "show business" and little to no respect for the minstrels of Hollywood.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2026 08:03 PM (RIvkX)

44 The Thomas Crown Affair.
Sorry Lex. I've seen both and I'll take the 1999 version with Russo and Brosnan every time. A great movie and story.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2026 08:03 PM (2WIwB)

45 I never was a McQueen guy. Nothing against him, but I suppose I’m more of a Lee Marvin or Charles Bronson and The Dirty Dozen fan as opposed to McQueen and The Great Escape.
_________
Bronson was in both. Not only that, he survived both.

I do not understand why someone would be angered by someone's success. But I do recognize that nowadays conservatives are just as much relativistic as liberals.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 25, 2026 08:04 PM (AlhUl)

46 My favorite Anthony Quinn movie is A Walk in the Clouds. He played a Mexican which he is.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 25, 2026 08:05 PM (kxLc1)

47 Watch Sand Pebbles day or so ago

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2026 08:05 PM (Ia/+0)

48 @32 James Clavell also wrote the script for "The Fly" if memory serves. The 1958 one I mean.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 25, 2026 08:06 PM (CHHv1)

49 "Le Mans, all other Steve McQueen is irrelevant

Posted by: Ghost of Turbines"

That's a pretty good movie. Except for the talking parts.

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2026 08:06 PM (vFG9F)

50 Posted by: Eeyore at April 25, 2026 08:04 PM (AlhUl)

Who is angered? No one here.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 25, 2026 08:06 PM (kxLc1)

51
My favorite Anthony Quinn movie is A Walk in the Clouds. He played a Mexican which he is.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 25, 2026 08:05 PM (kxLc1)

__________

The Guns of Navarone. Period.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2026 08:07 PM (tgvbd)

52 @26 It's possible he saw many writers destroying themselves by attempting to jump to the top of the heap, and he was trying to prevent more tragedies. A career in the arts (any of them) generally has very little to do with talent and more to do with sheer luck.

Alex Kurtzman comes to mind...

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 25, 2026 08:08 PM (CHHv1)

53 43....I used to be more in tune or interested in show business but the older I've become I realize a lot of it's a facade. A town run by average people creating the illusion they have some special insight into what works and what doesn't. It's like realizing your gods are false and sort of turning your back on them.

Posted by: Lex at April 25, 2026 08:08 PM (y4H1r)

54 I have an awesome Steve McQueen story but it would take too much space to tell it properly. Something for a MoMe.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2026 08:09 PM (2WIwB)

55 They rank The Great Escape as #1. It may be the dumbest movie he made.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2026 08:12 PM (jXvKN)

56 The Guns of Navarone. Period.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2026 08:07 PM (tgvbd)
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I saw that movie with my Boy Scout troop at some army base theater where we were on a road trip and the audience was 100% into it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2026 08:13 PM (RIvkX)

57 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slGNnC8NOyo

then there is Eastwood, Where Eagles Dare

Posted by: Ghost of Turbines past at April 25, 2026 08:13 PM (jrgJz)

58 I put Great Escape as my #5 best war movies

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2026 07:45 PM (Ia/+0

Concur Skip.
But that said, a hell of a lot of competition for the top 4.
A Thin Red Line
Saving Private Ryan (the first twenty minutes alone)
Fury
The Best Years of Our Lives
Patton
The Longest Day

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2026 08:14 PM (2WIwB)

59 So many books I would love to see as movies. But the process of turning them into a screenplay would harm a bunch of them. (If for no other reason than a lot of interior dialogue that couldn't easily be re-written as external dialog.)

Posted by: GWB at April 25, 2026 08:14 PM (fK5DA)

60 MP4 has commented about his ambivalence about a friend's work being published. It's a creator's struggle.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2026 08:14 PM (RIvkX)

61
I saw that movie with my Boy Scout troop at some army base theater where we were on a road trip and the audience was 100% into it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2026 08:13 PM (RIvkX)

_________

Son, every red-blooded normal American boy is 100% into it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2026 08:14 PM (tgvbd)

62 It's like realizing your gods are false and sort of turning your back on them.
Posted by: Lex
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The fact that they turn out mostly crap may have something to do with it. In Hollywood's hay day one could view a new and enjoyable/entertaining movie every week. Maybe four or so great movies a year. Now we are served crap and told it's steak.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2026 08:15 PM (jXvKN)

63 anyway the novel A High Wind in Jamaica came out in 1929 so is in public domain. feel free to do a fanfic

Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2026 08:15 PM (gKWVE)

64 My favorite McQueen flick is 'LeMans'. I'm a motorsports fan (shrugs).

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 25, 2026 08:15 PM (c711F)

65
And hacks like Akiva Goldsman with an almost perfect stinker record get projects thrown at him like women's panties at a Tom Jones concert.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 25, 2026 08:16 PM (y9nCu)

66 You know who wrote that screenplay? James Clavell. Another interesting thing is Clavell also directed To Sir With Love.

That is a guy who made a living writing screenplays. Okay also best selling novels.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 25, 2026

***
William Goldman was another -- often adapting his own novels like Magic and Marathon Man.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2026 08:18 PM (+2QQb)

67 I love the first Thomas Crown Affair, and think Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway made one of the sexiest screen duos ever. What’s different between it and other heist movies is the intense psychological maneuvering between Dunaway and McQueen throughout. He knows she’s trying to burn him, she knows he’s trying to get away with it and burn her, and they this intense relationship in spite of it.

He wins, of course.

And it helped that it was brilliantly directed by Norman Jewishness rather early in his career.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 25, 2026 08:20 PM (JkyaL)

68 It’s like listening to professional wrestlers insist matches are not staged.

Or (D)emocrats insisting there's no voter fraud?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2026 08:21 PM (0sNs1)

69 ...they do know The Thomas Crown Affair starring Steve McQueen...
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Hmm. And yet it is Faye Dunaway that first comes to my mind.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 25, 2026 08:21 PM (XeU6L)

70 Yeah im going to dissent on the great escape

Ive seen it maybe 20 times

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at April 25, 2026 08:22 PM (bXbFr)

71 50 Posted by: Eeyore at April 25, 2026 08:04 PM (AlhUl)

Who is angered? No one here.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 25, 2026 08:06 PM (kxLc1)
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"Both anger and appreciation for his success"

"Nevertheless, Alan’s story is a slap in the face to all the people who grinded for years before getting a seat at the table."

Personally, I try to compare Hollywood with other entertainment. Baseball comes to mind. Babe Ruth simply didn't have to work at it as most others did (with less success). This is something C S Lewis wrote about.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 25, 2026 08:23 PM (AlhUl)

72 You might not like the character he plays ... but McQueen always delivered.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2026 07:42 PM (+2QQb)

And what set apart favorite actors from really great actors is the well-liked ones often get stereotyped as a certain character, and people like the character, while the great actors played lots of different sorts and managed to portray each character really well. IMO.

Posted by: GWB at April 25, 2026 08:24 PM (fK5DA)

73 Yes mcqueem came to blows with sturgis over lemans

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at April 25, 2026 08:24 PM (bXbFr)

74 Yes akiva must have a whole altar to baal to explain his success in getting projectd

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at April 25, 2026 08:25 PM (bXbFr)

75 Arsenic and Old Lace is on TCM!

In college I did a production of it; I played Jack Carson's cop, who makes the mistake of saying Jonathan looks just like Boris Karloff and gets choked for it. Our version was rather original: The director cast a woman, one of our excellent and funny character actresses, as Teddy, who believes she is TR. I mean, why not? Teddy is insane; a woman could go psychotic and believe she is TR, right?

We were in the Green Room, and someone asked our actress why she thought Teddy, a girl, believed she was a man. She grinned and said with perfect timing: "It's so nice to be insane; no one asks you to explain!" (This was when that song by Helen Reddy, "Angie Baby," was a Top 40 hit.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2026 08:25 PM (+2QQb)

76 Sand Pebbles needed an editor to cut its running time in half. Then it could have been good.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 25, 2026 08:26 PM (JkyaL)

77 >>>then there is Eastwood, Where Eagles Dare
Posted by: Ghost of Turbines
--

YuuTuube will cut a movie and call it whole.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2026 08:26 PM (jXvKN)

78 Which is better, Tora Tora Tora or Patton?

Posted by: Ghost of Turbines past at April 25, 2026 08:27 PM (jrgJz)

79 71...I don't think most of your 1910s-1930s athletes worked at it that hard. They all drank and smoked. But even if Babe didn't put in the work, he was a generational talent, pitching and hitting, and made the live ball league. I'm not sure the comparison really holds.

Posted by: Lex at April 25, 2026 08:27 PM (y4H1r)

80 Is Stalag 17 a war movie?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2026 08:28 PM (jXvKN)

81 Is something broken?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2026 08:34 PM (jXvKN)

82 There’s a small scene at the end of Bullitt which must have been writenn by Truckman that resonates with me the older I get; and I take note of it because the first time I saw the film I thought it was anticlimactic and didn’t get it. It’s after even Jacquline has dumped on him and his bosses are furious at him for how things went. He’s cleaning up at his sink and just looks calmly in the mirror for a few seconds.

And as I’ve aged, I realized that’s the key to his character - when you’ve been in the hardest situation imaginable, and everyone is second guessing you; if you can still look at yourself in the mirror without shame, you’ve done well.

I think it’s a very insightful thought.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 25, 2026 08:35 PM (JkyaL)

83 82...it may have been written or maybe the director and actor did it on set improvisationally. Hard to know unless you have the script.

Posted by: Lex at April 25, 2026 08:36 PM (y4H1r)

84 Now I hate Alan Trustman.

Posted by: Cicero (@ciceto43) at April 25, 2026 08:37 PM (JkO4W)

85 Jeepers. Now I’m in a foul mood.

Posted by: Sour grapes much? at April 25, 2026 08:38 PM (M9/R7)

86 Which is better, Tora Tora Tora or Patton?
Posted by: Ghost of Turbines past at April 25, 2026 08:27 PM (jrgJz)

Patton
but a decent remake of Tora3 could propel it to the top. Especially if they focused more on the Japanese perspective.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2026 08:38 PM (2WIwB)

87 C-SPAN says shots fired at Correspondent’s Dinner

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at April 25, 2026 08:38 PM (NZIuw)

88 Live video shows main table cleared.

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at April 25, 2026 08:39 PM (NZIuw)

89 And as I’ve aged, I realized that’s the key to his character - when you’ve been in the hardest situation imaginable, and everyone is second guessing you; if you can still look at yourself in the mirror without shame, you’ve done well.

I think it’s a very insightful thought.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 25, 2026 08:35 PM (JkyaL)

Concur.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2026 08:40 PM (2WIwB)

90 C-SPAN says shots fired at Correspondent’s Dinner
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at April 25, 2026 08:38 PM (NZIuw)

I'll just say it right now without even looking it up,
FUCK YOU Democrats.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2026 08:41 PM (2WIwB)

91 C-SPAN says shots fired at Correspondent’s Dinner
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at April 25, 2026 08:38 PM (NZIuw)

I'll just say it right now without even looking it up,
FUCK YOU Democrats.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2026 08:41 PM (2WIwB)

92 What happened at the Washington Hilton?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 25, 2026 08:42 PM (2Ez/1)

93 OT: good news and bad news from Utah's GOP state convention.
Good news: that absolute RINO scumbag Blake Moore will not be representing the Republicans in UT-2. Karianne Lisonbee got 61.5%. Buh-bye Blake.
UT-3 is more a problem:
-Celeste Maloy 515 50%
-Phil Lyman 486 47.2%
That's a second vote. Maloy is considered a RINO too. Hopefully people wake up over there.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2026 08:42 PM (gKWVE)

94
C-SPAN says shots fired at Correspondent’s Dinner

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at April 25, 2026 08:38 PM (NZIuw)

__________

Anyway....

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2026 08:42 PM (tgvbd)

95 FUCK YOU Democrats.
Posted by: Diogenes

Seconded.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at April 25, 2026 08:43 PM (aS3FV)

96 Hopefully now that PDT and Melania are out, the whole building gets nuked.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2026 08:43 PM (A5RD0)

97 It is now a crime scene.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 25, 2026 08:43 PM (2Ez/1)

98 One shooter. SS has him in custody.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 25, 2026 08:43 PM (2Ez/1)

99 26 19...Good comment. I don't resent his success. I was more resentful he seemed to advise me not to try. It's definitely not a zero sum game; there are just only so many slots available to be a working screenwriter or outlets where you can sell a script for life changing amounts, so naturally some people just don't hit it the way others do, though they may be just as talented.
Posted by: Lex at April 25, 2026 07:49 PM (y4H1r)

History profs are the same. They will always advise against getting in it because there are so few slots available.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 25, 2026 08:44 PM (T6aVk)

100 Smug assholes sitting and ordering more drinks.

No one is targeting them, obviously.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2026 08:45 PM (A5RD0)

101 the Correspondents' Dinner was always a crime scene, just not officially until now

Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2026 08:46 PM (gKWVE)

102 Smug assholes sitting and ordering more drinks.
No one is targeting them, obviously.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Give 'em a round of Bill Cosbys and let a pack of DREAMERs have at them.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at April 25, 2026 08:46 PM (aS3FV)

103 Thx Lex for an interesting take and insights.
McQueen is a favorite. The Great Escape, The Sand Pebbles ( his best acting , got him an Academy Award nom) , Bullitt etc
Watched an interesting vid from Nerdrotic the other day about screenwriting. The demands of streaming has led to more and more content but most of crap . The strike a couple of years ago made it worse and a lot of solid old timers have walked away. The old Hollywood is on its last legs

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2026 08:46 PM (gu0hJ)

104 Concur Skip.
But that said, a hell of a lot of competition for the top 4.
A Thin Red Line
Saving Private Ryan (the first twenty minutes alone)
Fury
The Best Years of Our Lives
Patton
The Longest Day
Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2026 08:14 PM (2WIwB)

Full Metal Jacket and SPR are similar in that the best part is the beginning, but then it is a relatively ordinary war movie. I love both and both consistently top the charts whenever the Military Crimes publications put out a war movie poll. But let's face it: FMJ is driven largely by its first half, the basic training bit; and SPR's main draw is the amazing D-Day sequence.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 25, 2026 08:47 PM (T6aVk)

105 Stalag 17 certainly is a war movie
I put anything even kind of in period of a war a war movie. Many of older movies are have flashbacks to home

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2026 08:49 PM (Ia/+0)

106 So...MS-NOW is reporting "loud noises" at the dinner.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2026 08:49 PM (2WIwB)

107 Compton comes to visit Hollywood for Ugly People.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 25, 2026 08:49 PM (2Ez/1)

108 This is so like the Left and their Heckler's vetos!
THey are probably crying in their beers that no one was hurt. Evil demons

Posted by: Iris at April 25, 2026 08:49 PM (bOJ2I)

109 MS-NOW is reporting "loud noises" at the dinner

Quick, find out where Eric Swalwell is right now

Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2026 08:49 PM (gKWVE)

110 Complaining about how hard it is to become a Hollywood screenwriter today is like complaining how hard it is to become the harpooner on a whaling ship.

"It's dead, Jim."

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 25, 2026 08:49 PM (80m++)

111 The book the sand peebles was a prodigious volume

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at April 25, 2026 08:50 PM (bXbFr)

112 Gunman dead

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2026 08:50 PM (Ia/+0)

113 This is a big win for Trump.

Proves the press and the democrats can’t even sit down for a meal with another person whose views are different.

Dems look like the Party of Tolerance and Diversity now, don’t they.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2026 08:50 PM (A5RD0)

114 112 Gunman dead
Posted by: Skip

We'll take it from here.

Posted by: the Cenobites at April 25, 2026 08:51 PM (gKWVE)

115 In terms of things I've liked recently, the Netflix documentary series about Hulk Hogan has been pretty interesting. "Let me tell you something, brother!"

Posted by: Lex at April 25, 2026 08:51 PM (y4H1r)

116 Flaming skull worthy?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 25, 2026 08:51 PM (2Ez/1)

117 UT-3 is more a problem:
-Celeste Maloy 515 50%
-Phil Lyman 486 47.2%
That's a second vote. Maloy is considered a RINO too. Hopefully people wake up over there.
Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2026 08:42 PM (gKWVE)

Is UT-3 a more urban district?

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 25, 2026 08:52 PM (T6aVk)

118
Gunman dead

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2026 08:50 PM (Ia/+0)

____________

That's convenient.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2026 08:52 PM (tgvbd)

119 He's dead, Jim.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 25, 2026 08:53 PM (2Ez/1)

120 So...MS-NOW is reporting "loud noises" at the dinner.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2026 08:49 PM

Don't look at me.

Posted by: Eric Swalwell at April 25, 2026 08:53 PM (0sNs1)

121 113 This is a big win for Trump.

Proves the press and the democrats can’t even sit down for a meal with another person whose views are different.

Dems look like the Party of Tolerance and Diversity now, don’t they.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2026 08:50 PM (A5RD0)

They are Stalinists. Either you agree with the Party Line 100% or get strung up by piano wire or stood in front of a ditch in a birch forest 20 minutes later.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 25, 2026 08:53 PM (T6aVk)

122 106 So...MS-NOW is reporting "loud noises" at the dinner.
Posted by: Diogenes

Well, there's a hint of the motivations of the shooter.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 25, 2026 08:53 PM (c711F)

123 Is Trump ok?

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2026 08:54 PM (A5RD0)

124 C-SPAN says shots fired at Correspondent’s Dinner
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline
......

Gee, I hope Jake Tapper is OK

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2026 08:54 PM (b3Yos)

125 The demands of streaming has led to more and more content but most of crap
Posted by: Smell the Glove

The best thing about streaming is easy access to older movies. I'm plowing through all kinds of movies from the 30s to 80s. Some are good, some are bad, but all are light years better than current crap

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at April 25, 2026 08:55 PM (aS3FV)

126 123 Is Trump ok?
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2026 08:54 PM
+++

He and Melania were taken off the stage immediately.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 25, 2026 08:55 PM (2Ez/1)

127 Not like someone with a gun and fires it even at ceiling is going to live long in a room with Secret Service people

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2026 08:55 PM (Ia/+0)

128 Main steam stop valve

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2026 08:56 PM (Cqx++)

129 So, I guess the Left gets infinite chances at this, apparently?

Posted by: XTC at April 25, 2026 08:56 PM (6Uni8)

130 So there's just one guy with a gun? How do they know? Now they have to strip search everyone in there.

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2026 08:56 PM (vFG9F)

131 Evahbady goin' home...

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 25, 2026 08:57 PM (2Ez/1)

132 They are going to resume the dinner?

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2026 08:58 PM (A5RD0)

133 Tater running around on CNN like a fried potato.

Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at April 25, 2026 08:58 PM (jZ3ZM)

134 The correspondence dinner incident will provide a great opportunity for our media betters to moralize on the evils of guns.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 25, 2026 08:58 PM (T6aVk)

135 Was it Jim Acosta or Keith Olbermann?

Posted by: Mark1971 at April 25, 2026 08:58 PM (CNl8/)

136 Mebbe they're going to continue...

But it would appear no ears were injured at this event.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 25, 2026 08:58 PM (2Ez/1)

137 Fox News reporting the dinner will continue, but conflicting reports.

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at April 25, 2026 08:58 PM (NZIuw)

138 This shit is why I tell everyone on our side to cheat in every possible way during elections.

You are not dealing with a loyal opposition.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 25, 2026 08:59 PM (YW20U)

139 He and Melania were taken off the stage immediately.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

Watching the replay of Trump at the moment of the shot they took way too long to get him and Melania off the stage. Way too long.

And, they just said they plan to continue the dinner momentarily.

Posted by: old chick at April 25, 2026 09:00 PM (F3Dlr)

140 Why in the heck does Trump do these dinners again? Didn't he stop going? In a different era, he'd have been a spectacular prez at these things. Great comic touch.

But the "press" has degraded so badly - along with the Beltway and much of the country - that it's incomprehensible to me why he'd bother.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 25, 2026 09:00 PM (U/Byj)

141 *types*
*deletes*

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2026 09:01 PM (A5RD0)

142 Quarter Twenty you know might be a good chance if unhinged enough.

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2026 09:01 PM (Ia/+0)

143 How much did the SPLC pay the gunman?

Posted by: Mark1971 at April 25, 2026 09:01 PM (CNl8/)

144 Shut this crap down.

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2026 09:01 PM (b3Yos)

145 Death by chocolate is the dessert tonight.

All media were under the table.

Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at April 25, 2026 09:01 PM (jZ3ZM)

146 Dinner gonna be cold.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 25, 2026 09:01 PM (2Ez/1)

147 Shut this crap down.
Posted by: wth

What crap?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2026 09:02 PM (diia5)

148 The best thing about streaming is easy access to older movies.

I’m watching The Swamp Fox tv series with Walt Disney himself introducing each episode. It was part of.a show called Walt Disney Presents, and he does.

It is practically impossible to find legitimately but is available on the Internet Archive and YouTube. And so far it has (in different ways) rivaled The Patriot.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 25, 2026 09:03 PM (Z64UG)

149 Don't continue. Shut it down. And have DJT rip into the Democrat Party and Media (but I repeat myself) for encouraging this shit over and over and over again.

Posted by: XTC at April 25, 2026 09:03 PM (6Uni8)

150 All media were under the table.
Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot

Those are their assigned seats.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2026 09:03 PM (diia5)

151 140 Why in the heck does Trump do these dinners again?

If you read Vox Day, the Deep State has a team of Trump body doubles who go up and say things. Some are short and some are tall.
He's right about one thing, none of them have been on the Moon.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2026 09:03 PM (gKWVE)

152 Poor Wolf lost his shoe

Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at April 25, 2026 09:04 PM (jZ3ZM)

153 He hasn't bothered for years but in honor of the 250th anniversary (and quite frankly - it is totally appropriate for him to CONQUER this bastion of leftwing propaganda!)

Posted by: Iris at April 25, 2026 09:04 PM (bOJ2I)

154 Of course the venue the same as the Reagan shooting in '81. My office at the time was 2 blocks away, used to walk by the spot near the VIP/vehicle entrance several days a week.

By some weird chance I was seated next to Jerry Parr, the head of Reagan's detail at the time, at a lunch thing not long after. Had an interesting conversation (which I've forgotten). Also forgot the lunch purpose, was at Brookings.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 25, 2026 09:04 PM (U/Byj)

155 I better get to bed, maybe by morning we will get it was another potential assassin, can't imagine any other reason someone would sneak a weapon in.
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2026 09:05 PM (Ia/+0)

156 Don't eat the soup.

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2026 09:05 PM (b3Yos)

157
Derek Hunter
@derekahunter
·
5m
One shooter, in custody, according to this officer.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2026 09:05 PM (diia5)

158 I call this

Posted by: Ox the mentalist at April 25, 2026 09:05 PM (jZ3ZM)

159 I believe it was Caroline Levitt seated next to Melania.
If either of them or PDT returns to the dinner it will be a disaster, even with bullet proof glass in front of them.
My gawd. This is sickening.

Posted by: old chick at April 25, 2026 09:06 PM (F3Dlr)

160 I call this
Posted by: Ox the mentalist

.. The Aristocrats?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2026 09:06 PM (diia5)

161 Chanced upon C-SPAN and saw that Trump and Melania were evacuated, and that smug twat Jiang Weijia said they would resume the dinner, like they're the BBC during the Blitz. God how I hate them.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at April 25, 2026 09:06 PM (kpS4V)

162 I'm glad no one was hurt, but freakin' shooter upstaged my post.

Posted by: Lex at April 25, 2026 09:06 PM (y4H1r)

163
I'm seeing shooter dead and shooter in custody.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 25, 2026 09:06 PM (n7rxJ)

164 Other than that Melania, how was the dinner?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 25, 2026 09:07 PM (2Ez/1)

165 And, thank you, Lex, for something thoughtful.

Posted by: GWB at April 25, 2026 09:08 PM (fK5DA)

166 Blonde - dead shooter in custody? Covers both things.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 25, 2026 09:08 PM (U/Byj)

167 I'm seeing shooter dead and shooter in custody.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

From a certain point of view.

Posted by: Lucifer at April 25, 2026 09:08 PM (VHUov)

168 So did the shooter come in with the staff or the guests?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 25, 2026 09:08 PM (w/O5Q)

169 I will say that these stupid dinners only seem to stiffen Trump's resolve, which is the exact opposite of what the presstitutes want.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at April 25, 2026 09:09 PM (kpS4V)

170 Melania: Donald, I'm done with this shit.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 25, 2026 09:09 PM (2Ez/1)

171 Could be the shooter is 'down' rather than dead.
fog of war, 24 hour rule etc etc etc

Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2026 09:10 PM (gKWVE)

172 How the holy hell did anyone get a gun into that room or anywhere close to the room??? Secret service heads need to roll…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2026 09:10 PM (9AdGW)

173 Trump is going back on stage.

Balls of steel.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2026 09:10 PM (viF8m)

174 I'm seeing shooter dead and shooter in custody.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
.......

It's all good. LETS EAT

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2026 09:10 PM (b3Yos)

175 A third assassination attempt?
That's it.
I'm done.
Game on you mutha fuckin' democrats.
No more agreeing to disagree.
No more beign nice.
No more getting along.
Moor reaching across the aisle.
Fuck you Democrats.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2026 09:10 PM (2WIwB)

176 Colonel Mustard in the lobby with the salad fork.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 25, 2026 09:11 PM (2Ez/1)

177 So, if Trump returns, does he get applauded or jeered?

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2026 09:11 PM (A5RD0)

178 I want Trump to come back on and thank the fake media for developing this psycho.

Then go into a Dangerfield scree of jokes.

Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at April 25, 2026 09:11 PM (jZ3ZM)

179 Fox News says Trump wants to go back. Why???????

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2026 09:11 PM (9AdGW)

180 It's all good. LETS EAT
Posted by: wth

The Seder, abbreviated version

Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2026 09:11 PM (gKWVE)

181
Shots fired "from a light fixture."

What is this, Phantom of the Opera?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 25, 2026 09:11 PM (n7rxJ)

182 Teddy R. continued his speech.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 25, 2026 09:12 PM (2Ez/1)

183 An obvious security failure…. SS is the bad news bears

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2026 09:12 PM (9AdGW)

184 PDT:

MISSED! AGAIN. YOU ASSHOLES CANT HIT THE BROAD SIDE OF A BARN FROM FIVE FEET AWAY.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2026 09:13 PM (A5RD0)

185 Trump could say, "Been there, done that."

Posted by: davidt at April 25, 2026 09:13 PM (Q+gd/)

186 Almost every comment on yahoo says it was staged. The amount of retards in the country is startling

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2026 09:14 PM (9AdGW)

187 Fox News says Trump wants to go back. Why???????
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2026 09:11 PM (9AdGW)

That's not just courage, that is leadership!
America's President.
Fuck yeah!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2026 09:14 PM (2WIwB)

188 Trying this pickle-flavored beer, pretty good with pretzels. Novelty, apparently pretty popular now, which of course I wouldn't know living in my cave in Tora Bora (well, the equivalent in many ways). Definitely OK with food, on its own nah.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 25, 2026 09:14 PM (U/Byj)

189 Hannity saying that the shooter fired at a SS agent stationed at the first magtomeyer that guests would walk through. Shots were fired back and the guy is in custody.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 25, 2026 09:14 PM (8i9fb)

190 How many presstitutes need a change of underwear?

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2026 09:15 PM (b3Yos)

191 Blonde - dead shooter in custody? Covers both things.

Blurb at Insty suggests possible two suspects.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 25, 2026 09:15 PM (vTZFs)

192 Was the short fat female SS agent from Butler on the job tonight trying to holster her sidearm?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2026 09:15 PM (9AdGW)

193 Hannity saying that the shooter fired at a SS agent stationed at the first magtomeyer that guests would walk through. Shots were fired back and the guy is in custody.
Posted by: Jen the original

EVERY SS AGENT reports to the pistol range tomorrow morning at 0800.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2026 09:16 PM (aTF2S)

194 Watch Melania's reaction when the shots are heard. She looked aghast

Posted by: Joemarine at April 25, 2026 09:16 PM (y171U)

195 Was the short fat female SS agent from Butler on the job tonight trying to holster her sidearm?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
.......

She was in the kitchen stuffing her gob.

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2026 09:17 PM (b3Yos)

196 "The amount of retards in the country is startling."

Ahemm.

Barack Obama was a prez candidate, and *actually elected, TWICE*.

John McCain was a prez candidate.

Joe *effing* Biden, one of the dumbest, most corrupt, least accomplished and most disliked Beltway non-entities for DECADES, was prez.

"Climate change" is more than a laughable chemtrails fantasy to millions.

The evidence has been there for a while.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 25, 2026 09:18 PM (U/Byj)

197 >>That's not just courage, that is leadership!
America's President.
Fuck yeah!!!

Comment of the week at least.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2026 09:18 PM (viF8m)

198 193 Hannity saying that the shooter fired at a SS agent stationed at the first magtomeyer that guests would walk through. Shots were fired back and the guy is in custody.
Posted by: Jen the original

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2026 09:16 PM (aTF2S)

How the heck did the shooter get close enough to the first magnetometer?

Posted by: Joemarine at April 25, 2026 09:18 PM (y171U)

199 Like omg! I was at a real assasination attempt! It was so cool! We had drinks and everyone was all dressed up! It was like one of those train trips where there’s a murder mystery!

Fuck the press.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2026 09:19 PM (A5RD0)

200 Maybe they shouldn't have Death By Chocolate for dessert.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 25, 2026 09:20 PM (2Ez/1)

201 Almost the entire Cabinet present, too.

John Roberts: Trump will be coming back to dinner.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 25, 2026 09:20 PM (NFX2v)

202 First magnetometer would likely be far away, just inside building entrance. Washington Hilton is set up for these events, main such venue in town. Security arrangements there have been set for decades. So getting off a shot at the outer perimeter very plausible.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 25, 2026 09:21 PM (U/Byj)

203 PDJT wants to go back again but is waiting for law enforcement to make the call.

Posted by: Joemarine at April 25, 2026 09:22 PM (y171U)

204 First magnetometer would likely be far away, just inside building entrance. Washington Hilton is set up for these events, main such venue in town. Security arrangements there have been set for decades.

So getting off a shot at the outer perimeter very plausible.
Posted by: rhomboid

Surviving as the shooter is unacceptable.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2026 09:22 PM (aTF2S)

205 A third assassination attempt?
That's it.
I'm done.
Game on you mutha fuckin' democrats.
No more agreeing to disagree.
No more beign nice.
No more getting along.
Moor reaching across the aisle.
Fuck you Democrats."

This. I'm thru being nice. F you. War.

Posted by: man at April 25, 2026 09:22 PM (XuXeR)

206 Will Trump be applauded or booed for coming back?

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2026 09:22 PM (A5RD0)

207 > "Tough row to hoe" ?

I thought it was always " Tough road to ho."

Posted by: Kama La Toe at April 25, 2026 09:23 PM (a992C)

208 Fox now saying Trump is not coming back.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 25, 2026 09:23 PM (8i9fb)

209 I didn't even get to my potato.

Posted by: Brian Stelter at April 25, 2026 09:23 PM (JkO4W)

210 Now Trump not coming back per Fox News

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2026 09:23 PM (9AdGW)

211 Tough boat to row.

Posted by: davidt at April 25, 2026 09:23 PM (Q+gd/)

212 Trump's combative relationship with the press creates a climate of violence!

Knock back a shot every time somebody blames this on Trump.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at April 25, 2026 09:24 PM (kpS4V)

213 202 First magnetometer would likely be far away, just inside building entrance. Washington Hilton is set up for these events, main such venue in town. Security arrangements there have been set for decades. So getting off a shot at the outer perimeter very plausible.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 25, 2026 09:21 PM (U/Byj)

Thanks

Posted by: Joemarine at April 25, 2026 09:24 PM (y171U)

214 207, 210 — Jinx!!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2026 09:24 PM (9AdGW)

215 Hey. My coffee is cold.

Posted by: Katie Couric at April 25, 2026 09:24 PM (2Ez/1)

216 Gunman has been eliminated. Sweep of area is still underway.

White House staffer has said, according toTrey Yinst, Trump will not be back in the ballroom.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 25, 2026 09:24 PM (NFX2v)

217 Fox stating they are hearing gunman is dead but can’t confirm.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 25, 2026 09:25 PM (8i9fb)

218 Most WHCD attendees are closed inside the ballroom and cannot leave

[Can we keep them there forever?]

Posted by: Beverly at April 25, 2026 09:25 PM (reMys)

219 Per Fox this shooting happened past the first magnetometer up an escalator to a magnetometer just outside the ballroom

So I repeat… the SS is incompetent

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2026 09:26 PM (9AdGW)

220 Dead gunmen tell no tales.

Posted by: davidt at April 25, 2026 09:26 PM (Q+gd/)

221 How much would the US of A improve if all the Leftist journalists at the dinner would be arrested as accomplices? I'll bet a lot.

Waterboard them. Take their assets. Drop them off in Gaza in only underwear stuffed with $20 bills.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2026 09:26 PM (u82oZ)

222 Trump's combative relationship with the press creates a climate of violence!

Knock back a shot every time somebody blames this on Trump.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at April 25, 2026 09:24 PM (kpS4V)

Jeez.
If we did dat pretty shuun everyone will be under the affluence of incohol!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2026 09:26 PM (2WIwB)

223 Most WHCD attendees are closed inside the ballroom and cannot leave

[Can we keep them there forever?]
Posted by: Beverly at April 25, 2026 09:25 PM (reMys)

for at least 15 minutes after oxygen runs out....

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 25, 2026 09:26 PM (nsSpm)

224 Just announced event will continue. Bizarre.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 25, 2026 09:26 PM (8i9fb)

225 Essentially the donks are, if you just let us kill your leader everything can get back to normal.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2026 09:26 PM (XV/Pl)

226 Gunman has been eliminated. Sweep of area is still underway."

That's a task. The main ballroom is quite the facility. It'll take time.

And someone needs to be fired

Posted by: man at April 25, 2026 09:26 PM (XuXeR)

227 Wait. I thought DC was safe now?

Posted by: Katie Couric at April 25, 2026 09:26 PM (2Ez/1)

228 Is the gunperxon a tranny, a jihadi (bonus points for correctly guessing sunni or shia) or a communist?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 25, 2026 09:26 PM (w/O5Q)

229 220 Dead gunmen tell no tales.

-----------

He's a patsy!

Posted by: Zombie Lee Harvey Oswald at April 25, 2026 09:27 PM (JkO4W)

230 203 PDJT wants to go back again but is waiting for law enforcement to make the call.
Posted by: Joemarine at April 25, 2026 09:22 PM (y171U)

Either he overrides the cops and goes back, or his is a coward. Just like Bush XLIII was a coward for not going back to DC and staying there on 9/11/01. I do not respect cowards.

Posted by: Some commenters venting on Bush XLIII if they are intellectually consistent at April 25, 2026 09:27 PM (T6aVk)

231 Maybe next years dinner will be at a Trump hotel.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 25, 2026 09:27 PM (YW20U)

232 GASSSSSS THEM

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2026 09:27 PM (A5RD0)

233 "Tough row to hoe" ?

I thought it was always " Tough road to ho."
Posted by: Kama La Toe

Tough ho with 45 miles of bad road.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2026 09:27 PM (aTF2S)

234 I find it amusing that these are supposedly the premier "journalists" on the planet, yet not ONE of them really knows what's going on right now.

And when they report on it tomorrow, their "facts" will be completely wrong.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2026 09:27 PM (gnNyN)

235 Most WHCD attendees are closed inside the ballroom and cannot leave

[Can we keep them there forever?]
Posted by: Beverly

Thunderdome rules. One of them can leave.

Posted by: mikeski at April 25, 2026 09:27 PM (VHUov)

236 past the first magnetometer up an escalator to a magnetometer just outside the ballroom"

Yeah. It's not all on the same level...

Posted by: man at April 25, 2026 09:27 PM (XuXeR)

237 Safer than your poolboy, Katie.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2026 09:27 PM (gKWVE)

238 "Most WHCD attendees are closed inside the ballroom and cannot leave"

I gave a banquet once...

Posted by: Vlad Tepes at April 25, 2026 09:27 PM (Q+gd/)

239
So, Trump is so cowardly that a few shots fired at him scare him off.

/s

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2026 09:28 PM (tgvbd)

240 Was the shooter Lutheran? We only know for sure that he was not muslim or trans.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at April 25, 2026 09:28 PM (Vpqw1)

241 davidt

Have the NSA seize his Google file. All will be revealed.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2026 09:28 PM (u82oZ)

242 Gunman at White House Correspondents' Dinner was shot and killed

A law enforcement source and U.S. official told CBS News that the gunman is dead. The gunman approached the magnetometers outside the ballroom, where he was shot by law enforcement, the sources said. [CBS, 9 mins ago]

Posted by: Beverly at April 25, 2026 09:28 PM (reMys)

243 Dead gunmen tell no tales.
Posted by: davidt at April 25, 2026 09:26 PM (Q+gd/)

First rule of assassinations...eliminate the assassin.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2026 09:28 PM (2WIwB)

244 Announcement in the ballroom the event will be begin again soon.

Trump may also be back. (Mixed messages from administration officials.)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 25, 2026 09:28 PM (NFX2v)

245 My husband came out and said someone was shooting at Trump again at the dinner. My first thought was which reporter finally lost it and shot at him.

Posted by: Megthered at April 25, 2026 09:28 PM (aqylp)

246 I didn't even get to my potato.
Posted by: Brian Stelter
.......

Don't forget to swallow before you chew.

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2026 09:28 PM (b3Yos)

247 Fox’s report is becoming schizophrenic.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 25, 2026 09:28 PM (8i9fb)

248 Is the gunperxon a tranny, a jihadi (bonus points for correctly guessing sunni or shia) or a communist?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls

SPLC member.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2026 09:28 PM (aTF2S)

249 I half expect the shooter to be Tim Walz

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 25, 2026 09:28 PM (YW20U)

250 This could be the record for assassination attempts of a leader.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2026 09:28 PM (XV/Pl)

251
Almost every comment on yahoo says it was staged. The amount of retards in the country is startling
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

But the SPLC is legit!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2026 09:28 PM (Cqx++)

252 Most WHCD attendees are closed inside the ballroom and cannot leave
----

Release the rancor!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at April 25, 2026 09:29 PM (kpS4V)

253 How the fuck did this happen?
Gonna be a lot of finger pointing, second guessing, premature assumptions, speculation and claw back.

I am fucking sick of all of this.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at April 25, 2026 09:29 PM (0aYVJ)

254 "Is the gunperxon a tranny, a jihadi (bonus points for correctly guessing sunni or shia) or a communist?"

I think you have to add fanatical Ukraine supporters and NATO country ambassadors to that list.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 25, 2026 09:29 PM (U/Byj)

255 It will be interesting to see how things unfold over the next few days.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 25, 2026 09:29 PM (T6aVk)

256 239
So, Trump is so cowardly that a few shots fired at him scare him off.

/s
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Was it a TACO dinner!?!??! Hur hur hur!!!!

Posted by: The Bulwark at April 25, 2026 09:29 PM (ycI94)

257 Brian Kilmead claims he smelled the gunpowder. He’s full of it.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 25, 2026 09:29 PM (8i9fb)

258
Most WHCD attendees are closed inside the ballroom and cannot leave

__________

Keep them there until 2029. Can't be too careful.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2026 09:30 PM (tgvbd)

259 This could be the record for assassination attempts of a leader.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2026 09:28 PM (XV/Pl)

At least a tie with Lincoln.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at April 25, 2026 09:30 PM (0aYVJ)

260 Fox’s report is becoming schizophrenic.
Posted by: Jen the original at April 25, 2026 09:28 PM (8i9fb)

Yes… it’s like a Gutfeld gag

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2026 09:30 PM (ALKK0)

261 Can anyone say Reichstags Fire?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2026 09:30 PM (u82oZ)

262 I find it amusing that these are supposedly the premier "journalists" on the planet, yet not ONE of them really knows what's going on right now.

And when they report on it tomorrow, their "facts" will be completely wrong.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2026 09:27 PM (gnNyN)

They will wait until their editors and producers tell them what to say.
Not like they can think for themselves.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2026 09:30 PM (2WIwB)

263 Maybe this is a good lesson for the traitorous White House correspondents and they will learn that calling PDJT fascist and racist has consequences (I doubt it).

Posted by: Joemarine at April 25, 2026 09:30 PM (y171U)

264 "Is the gunperxon a tranny, a jihadi (bonus points for correctly guessing sunni or shia) or a communist?"

Can I choose D: All of the above?

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at April 25, 2026 09:30 PM (ycI94)

265 Tapper is reading about it on X.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2026 09:31 PM (JkO4W)

266 Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame

Queen Victoria survived six assassination attempts. Some were pretty close to getting her.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2026 09:31 PM (u82oZ)

267 Maybe this is also to discourage Trump from going on the road for the midterms?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at April 25, 2026 09:31 PM (kpS4V)

268 Oh boy… Erika Kirk was present. She’s been through enough

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2026 09:31 PM (ALKK0)

269 I question the timing!

/sarc

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at April 25, 2026 09:31 PM (NlEaG)

270 259 This could be the record for assassination attempts of a leader.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2026 09:28 PM (XV/Pl)

At least a tie with Lincoln.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at April 25, 2026 09:30 PM (0aYVJ)

-----------

Trump still leads on impeachments.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2026 09:32 PM (JkO4W)

271 Same building where Reagan was shot.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 25, 2026 09:32 PM (8i9fb)

272 It's an op.
It's fake and gay.

Posted by: Someone has to say it at April 25, 2026 09:32 PM (2Ez/1)

273 I think Fidel Castro holds the record for the most assassination attempts.
Tito and Schiklgruber also attracted a fair number.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2026 09:32 PM (gKWVE)

274 President Trump still leads on impeachments.
Posted by: Cicero

FIFY.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2026 09:32 PM (u82oZ)

275 Most WHCD attendees are closed inside the ballroom and cannot leave

I'm not trapped in here with you. You're all trapped in here with ME. (brandishes bullwhip)

Posted by: President Trump at April 25, 2026 09:33 PM (ycI94)

276 I would LOVE for Melania to come out tomorrow with an absolute fire and brimstone attack on the dems. It would be epic!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2026 09:33 PM (2WIwB)

277 It's time for common sense Correspondent's Dinner control.

Posted by: Karen McAwfl at April 25, 2026 09:33 PM (2Ez/1)

278 President Trump

Don't tease. That would be awesome.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2026 09:33 PM (u82oZ)

279 Erika Kirk was present.

Candace Owens bullshit, incoming!

Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2026 09:33 PM (gKWVE)

280 I will say again: It appears the secret service doesn’t know the first thing about defining and maintaining a security cordon…. It’s ridiculous

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2026 09:33 PM (ALKK0)

281 I pray Caroline Levitt is "okay" after the scare and being rushed off the stage.
It's not just PDT's safety, these lunatics are endangering the lives of everyone around him.

Posted by: old chick at April 25, 2026 09:33 PM (F3Dlr)

282 The important question is:
Did Brett Baier buy a new suit for the evening?

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2026 09:34 PM (b3Yos)

283 I bet it smells of flop sweat and poo in that ballroom. I just can't hate the media enough.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 25, 2026 09:34 PM (7JD9w)

284 "254 "Is the gunperxon a tranny, a jihadi (bonus points for correctly guessing sunni or shia) or a communist?"

I think you have to add fanatical Ukraine supporters and NATO country ambassadors to that list."

Uh, no - that would be cultural appropriation taking aways from trans and/or islamic culture.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at April 25, 2026 09:34 PM (Vpqw1)

285 Around 25 assassination attempts, or serious plots for same, were made against Hitler, counting events back to early rabblerousing days in Munich.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 25, 2026 09:34 PM (U/Byj)

286 This could be the record for assassination attempts of a leader.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2026 09:28 PM (XV/Pl)

At least a tie with Lincoln.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

I was #1 with a bullet!

Posted by: Zombie President Lincoln at April 25, 2026 09:34 PM (ycI94)

287
I didn't even get to my potato.
Posted by: Brian Stelter

============

You are the potato.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 25, 2026 09:34 PM (n7rxJ)

288 rhomboid

Ironically, the Allies wanted Hitler to live, because his leadership kneecapped the German General Staff, and ensured Nazi Germany's defeat.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2026 09:35 PM (u82oZ)

289 Brian Kilmead said Erica Kirk was present at the dinner, too, & hid beneath a table, as did most attendees.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 25, 2026 09:35 PM (NFX2v)

290 It's 8647, I mean 1968 all over again!

Posted by: J Comay at April 25, 2026 09:36 PM (a992C)

291 The important question is:
Did Brett Baier buy a new suit for the evening?
Posted by: wth at April 25, 2026 09:34 PM (b3Yos)

And if so did he shit in the new suit pants?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2026 09:36 PM (ALKK0)

292
If, God forbid, they'd murdered Trump, what would we do? Answer: as usual, nothing but squawk.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2026 09:36 PM (tgvbd)

293 276 I would LOVE for Melania to come out tomorrow with an absolute fire and brimstone attack on the dems. It would be epic!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2026 09:33 PM (2WIwB)

If you get a chance, check out her shocked reaction when the shots are fired

Posted by: Joemarine at April 25, 2026 09:36 PM (y171U)

294 How stupid do you have to be to try to go through a magnoeter with a gun at an event where the POTUS is present?

He should have been shot just for being a dumb fuck.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2026 09:36 PM (viF8m)

295 but a decent remake of Tora3 could propel it to the top. Especially if they focused more on the Japanese perspective.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2026 08:38 PM

Sadly, with regret, I disagree. The recent Midway movie tried pretty hard by Hollywood standards to be accurate to early Pacific War history, and basically made a small profit. Most of the people under 29 don't know and don't want to. They want to see spectacles performed by people they think are good looking.
I was hoping the crew behind Midway would do something else using some of the CGI that was developed like maybe the Taffy Three story but no dice. Not enough money was made.

Posted by: Azjaeger at April 25, 2026 09:36 PM (3/XaG)

296 Trump wants to hear and see how all these clowns perform after his security peeps killed a threat out in the hall.

Whatchoo gonna say? Your scripted zingers?

Who's gonna go up to the mic and talk smack now?

Which of them wants to go first?

Posted by: M. Gaga at April 25, 2026 09:36 PM (DwBif)

297 276 I would LOVE for Melania to come out tomorrow with an absolute fire and brimstone attack on the dems. It would be epic!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2026 09:33 PM (2WIwB)
***
I would love that too. And Karoline Levitt was there next to Melania. Shes due any day, I hope shes ok. Melania should jump on the media with both stilettos and grind them into the ground.

Posted by: Megthered at April 25, 2026 09:36 PM (aqylp)

298 Why would the press be afraid?

They aren’t the ones being targeted.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2026 09:36 PM (A5RD0)

299 Maybe we shouldn't serve the Jello shooters...

Posted by: The Caterer at April 25, 2026 09:37 PM (2Ez/1)

300 "271 Same building where Reagan was shot."

And where Reagan went again - I shook his hand there. It was designed for Presidents to make public appearances.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at April 25, 2026 09:37 PM (Vpqw1)

301 Hmm, tranny, commie, jihadi, nepo greenie, illegal alien fetishist, Ukraine supporters, NATO's long lost militant wing, or all of the above.

Posted by: the Spanish Inquisition at April 25, 2026 09:37 PM (w/O5Q)

302 They just removed the Presidential seal from the podium.

Posted by: Joemarine at April 25, 2026 09:38 PM (y171U)

303 Fox having major audio issues, very annoying

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2026 09:38 PM (ALKK0)

304
Big Fraud is behind this.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2026 09:38 PM (tgvbd)

305 Have they ruled out John Malkovich yet?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at April 25, 2026 09:38 PM (0aYVJ)

306 Why would the press be afraid?

They aren’t the ones being targeted.
Posted by: nurse ratched

They were in the same zip code.
They were in the shit.
Send money to their podcast.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2026 09:38 PM (aTF2S)

307 Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance were present at the 2026 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, too.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 25, 2026 09:39 PM (NFX2v)

308 NY Post: 1 min. ago
"A White House Correspondents’ Dinner volunteer said the suspected gunman appeared to assemble a “long” weapon in a lightly monitored area near the terrace-level entrance before opening fire and rushing toward the ballroom.

The witness, Helen Mabus, a volunteer working the event who said she is from Harrisburg, Pa., described a “makeshift room” near the entrance where bar carts were being stored and where “there was no security” at the time.

“He was in that room […] he grabbed it out of a bag or something,” Mabus said, adding that the weapon “was long” and “didn’t look like a typical gun.”

Mabus said the suspect was partially out of view of security as he handled the weapon inside the room before suddenly moving toward the main event space.

“He put it together and […] ran towards the stairs to go down to the ballroom,” she said.

The gunman then began firing in multiple directions as guests and staff scrambled to escape.

“It just seem like he was shooting all over the place,” Mabus said, estimating she heard “at least 10 shots.”

Posted by: Beverly at April 25, 2026 09:39 PM (reMys)

309 Have they ruled out John Malkovich yet?
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at April 25, 2026 09:38 PM (0aYVJ)

He had that cool homemade gun undetectable by magnetometers!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2026 09:39 PM (ALKK0)

310 Where’s my cocktail, dammit!

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2026 09:39 PM (A5RD0)

311 Yep like I said that venue was created for events like this and security set-up is very established. Reagan was shot outside by a guy basically at the rope line. Very hard to stop that kind of stuff (in a public location) except by set-back, and screening the principal.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 25, 2026 09:40 PM (U/Byj)

312 I want Trump to go full Sith Lord and send an armed Vance into the Senate to force the SAVE Act passed, and if not then to declare the Senate in recess.
Trump can recess-appoint Diogenes Lamp as the press secretary, and that can be his most moderate choice.

Posted by: gKWVE would also like a pony at April 25, 2026 09:40 PM (gKWVE)

313 And then the midterm elections changed.

>>@PressSec
·
41s
>>President Trump will deliver a statement in the White House Briefing Room.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2026 09:40 PM (viF8m)

314 If, God forbid, they'd murdered Trump, what would we do? Answer: as usual, nothing but squawk.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2026 09:36 PM (tgvbd)

What would we do?
Well, the gloves come off.
After that...no rules.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2026 09:40 PM (2WIwB)

315 Trump gonna speak from the White House in 30 minutes.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 25, 2026 09:40 PM (2Ez/1)

316 I'm getting real tired of living through historical times

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2026 09:40 PM (tUP1A)

317 On with the show!

Posted by: M. Gaga at April 25, 2026 09:40 PM (DwBif)

318 Trump news conference at WH instead of returning to dinner

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2026 09:41 PM (ALKK0)

319 There I was, bullets whizzing past my head and up to my neck in white linen while armed only with a fork full of lobster.

Posted by: Brian Williams at April 25, 2026 09:41 PM (JkO4W)

320 PDJT will have a press briefing at the White House in 30 minutes (no joke)

Posted by: Joemarine at April 25, 2026 09:41 PM (y171U)

321 We know the shorter wasn’t Tim Walz.
He doesn’t know how to work a gun.

Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at April 25, 2026 09:41 PM (jZ3ZM)

322 Dinner called off

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2026 09:41 PM (A5RD0)

323 Mabus said the suspect was partially out of view of security as he handled the weapon inside the room before suddenly moving toward the main event space.

“He put it together and […] ran towards the stairs to go down to the ballroom,” she said.

The gunman then began firing in multiple directions as guests and staff scrambled to escape.

“It just seem like he was shooting all over the place,” Mabus said, estimating she heard “at least 10 shots.”
Posted by: Beverly

Ruger 10/22 Takedown

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2026 09:41 PM (aTF2S)

324 317 On with the show!
Posted by: M. Gaga at April 25, 2026 09:40 PM (DwBif)

Ah shit. Here we go again...

Posted by: Mary Lincoln at April 25, 2026 09:42 PM (gKWVE)

325 AZ Intel
@AZ_Intel_
1m
Trump: "Law Enforcement has requested that we leave the premises, consistent with protocol, which we will do, immediately. I will be giving a press conference in 30 minutes from the White House Press Briefing Room. The First Lady, plus the Vice President, and all Cabinet members, are in perfect condition. We will be speaking to you in a half an hour. I have spoken with all the representatives in charge of the event, and we will be rescheduling within 30 days"

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2026 09:42 PM (GD0B3)

326 Where’s my cocktail, dammit!
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2026 09:39 PM (A5RD0)

*licks finger*
*slicks down eyebrow*

Hey there Baby! Come here often?
Can I buy you a nice Lemon Drop?

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2026 09:42 PM (2WIwB)

327 Some idiotic lady just congratulated…. The press?? They’re the heroes I guess. Good grief

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2026 09:42 PM (ALKK0)

328
Dinner called off

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2026 09:41 PM (A5RD0)

__________

Can I get a doggie bag?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2026 09:42 PM (tgvbd)

329 Got to love that Trump is going back in. "Been there, done that" and "how's your underwear, propaganda ministers?"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2026 09:42 PM (gu0hJ)

330 Finally they have cancelled the dinner. Trump to speak from the WH in 30 minutes.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 25, 2026 09:42 PM (8i9fb)

331 @304

>>Big Fraud is behind this.

It's always Big Penguin, always.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2026 09:42 PM (XV/Pl)

332 {{{nurse ratched}}}

Please accept my best wishes for a sunnier you. I hear you are going through tough times at work.

Maybe find a conservative guy that used to tear telephone books in half for fun, and now does that to iPhones. The barbed wire tattoos on his bulging biceps will keep the homeless from bothering you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2026 09:42 PM (u82oZ)

333 No one was hurt, which is great news.

Posted by: Joemarine at April 25, 2026 09:42 PM (y171U)

334 You gonna eat that?

Posted by: Brian Stelter at April 25, 2026 09:43 PM (2Ez/1)

335 306 Why would the press be afraid?

They aren’t the ones being targeted.
Posted by: nurse ratched

They were in the same zip code.
They were in the shit.
Send money to their podcast.
Posted by: rickb223

It worked for me!!!

Posted by: David Hogg at April 25, 2026 09:43 PM (ycI94)

336 Maybe Trump will call in an air strike.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at April 25, 2026 09:43 PM (kpS4V)

337 Which reporters are going to cover the press conference? They are all at the hotel.

Posted by: Mark1971 at April 25, 2026 09:43 PM (CNl8/)

338 If, God forbid, they'd murdered Trump, what would we do? Answer: as usual, nothing but squawk.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Oh, hey, the glue factory truck just left. It'll be back tomorrow.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2026 09:44 PM (diia5)

339 Dinner called off
Posted by: nurse ratched

mmmm leftovers!

Posted by: Tater at April 25, 2026 09:44 PM (b3Yos)

340 327 Some idiotic lady just congratulated…. The press?? They’re the heroes I guess. Good grief
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2026 09:42 PM (ALKK0)

She is president of the White House Correspondents and works for CBS News.

Posted by: Joemarine at April 25, 2026 09:44 PM (y171U)

341 The good news is, having crapped my pants I can eat MORE!

Posted by: Brian Stelter at April 25, 2026 09:44 PM (gKWVE)

342 The First Amendment depends a lot on the Second.

Posted by: The Constitution at April 25, 2026 09:44 PM (2Ez/1)

343 licks finger*
*slicks down eyebrow*

Hey there Baby! Come here often?
Can I buy you a nice Lemon Drop?
Posted by: Diogenes

*blushes*
Can I have a double?

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2026 09:44 PM (A5RD0)

344 Mental asylums to open in Democratic official's office spaces in 3 days?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2026 09:44 PM (u82oZ)

345 Never see the original. The remake was OK. Rene Russo, giiigiddy.

Posted by: Heroq at April 25, 2026 09:44 PM (q1qnK)

346 Oh boy...Reddit is nothing but "Staged attack to boost his ratings, just like in Pennsylvania."

Sad!

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 25, 2026 09:45 PM (ycI94)

347 There I was, bullets whizzing past my head and up to my neck in white linen while armed only with a fork full of lobster.
Posted by: Brian Williams

Real quote from Wolf Blitzer in the NY Post article:

"I happened to have been a few feet away from him," he said. "The first thing that went through my mind was he’s trying to shoot me."

Ya know, because he's a key figure in history and all.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 25, 2026 09:45 PM (vTZFs)

348 Too bad there's a not a big room in the WH where they can host these type of events.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 25, 2026 09:45 PM (2Ez/1)

349 Maybe find a conservative guy that used to tear telephone books in half for fun, and now does that to iPhones. The barbed wire tattoos on his bulging biceps will keep the homeless from bothering you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2026 09:42 PM (u82oZ)
***

Oh stop it. Nurse and I are just friends.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2026 09:45 PM (2WIwB)

350 Let's see the response of the idiot Dems. Expect Murphy and Newsom to say something stupid, as well as the squad.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2026 09:46 PM (gu0hJ)

351 312 I want Trump to go full Sith Lord and send an armed Vance into the Senate to force the SAVE Act passed, and if not then to declare the Senate in recess.
Trump can recess-appoint Diogenes Lamp as the press secretary, and that can be his most moderate choice.
Posted by: gKWVE would also like a pony at April 25, 2026 09:40 PM (gKWVE)

Thankful they are ok. Prayers daily for President Trump, VP Vance, their families, friends and the Cabinet.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 25, 2026 09:46 PM (WONhk)

352 This security snafu is worse than Butler.

How does dude with a rifle get off shots inside the building?

Posted by: Joemarine at April 25, 2026 09:46 PM (y171U)

353 "“It just seem like he was shooting all over the place,” Mabus said, estimating she heard “at least 10 shots.”

Those damn Amish are out of control, and we'll be lucky to live through their reign of terror.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 25, 2026 09:46 PM (vbXSk)

354 Wolf Blitzer: the coolest name wasted on that sack of crap.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at April 25, 2026 09:46 PM (kpS4V)

355 Around 25 assassination attempts, or serious plots for same, were made against Hitler, counting events back to early rabblerousing days in Munich.
Posted by: rhomboid

Not to mention all the successful time-traveling and dimension-sliding assassins, whose efforts spawned parallel universes.

Posted by: quantum mikeski at April 25, 2026 09:46 PM (VHUov)

356 This security snafu is worse than Butler.

How does dude with a rifle get off shots inside the building?
Posted by: Joemarine at April 25, 2026 09:46 PM (y171U)

you are asking the right question

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2026 09:47 PM (GD0B3)

357 I have more respect for a $10 crack whore than any MSM “journalist”.

Posted by: Heroq at April 25, 2026 09:47 PM (q1qnK)

358 *blushes*
Can I have a double?
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2026 09:44 PM (A5RD0)

Aksully I have been experimenting with lemon drops and I think I have discovered the secret to a really good one.
Triple sec...in just the right amount.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2026 09:47 PM (2WIwB)

359 Diogenes

+ 6.022 x 10²³

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2026 09:47 PM (u82oZ)

360 Thankful they are ok. Prayers daily for President Trump, VP Vance, their families, friends and the Cabinet.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 25, 2026 09:46 PM (WONhk)
---

Same. And the country.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at April 25, 2026 09:47 PM (kpS4V)

361 SS agent shot will be ok, he was wearing a vest.Hannity saying shooter being interrogated by FBI. Why in the hell isnt this asshole riddled with bullets?

Posted by: Jen the original at April 25, 2026 09:47 PM (8i9fb)

362 “It just seem like he was shooting all over the place,” Mabus said, estimating she heard “at least 10 shots.”
Posted by: Beverly

Someone radicalized Leeroy Jenkins?

Posted by: mikeski at April 25, 2026 09:47 PM (VHUov)

363 Apropos of nothing… Am I the only person who thinks that 9pm is an ungodly late hour to eat dinner?? I eat dinner at 5pm and most nights in bed by 9:30 asleep by 10:30….. if I ate at 9 I couldn’t fall asleep until midnight. It’s nuts

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2026 09:48 PM (ALKK0)

364 303 Fox having major audio issues, very annoying
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2026 09:38 PM

So was C-SPAN.

Posted by: Moonbeam at April 25, 2026 09:49 PM (rbKZ6)

365 257 Brian Kilmead claims he smelled the gunpowder. He’s full of it.
Posted by: Jen the original

THEY'RE EATING EACH OTHER!!!

Posted by: former Fox homo newz pyrson at April 25, 2026 09:49 PM (c711F)

366 359 Diogenes

+ 6.022 x 10²³
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2026 09:47 PM (u82oZ)

Math???
Yo, There is a reason i was a Political Science major.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2026 09:49 PM (2WIwB)

367 According to one witness weapon was "assembled" inside the bldg, in a small utility space that was not monitored (but visible to the witness, I guess). I imagine we'll be hearing the verified truth in due course. But that's how it might happen - pre-staged weapon inside the perimeter. We'll see.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 25, 2026 09:49 PM (U/Byj)

368 Wolf Blitzer: the coolest name wasted on that sack of crap.

* ahem *

Second coolest.

Posted by: Zombie Thurl Ravenscroft at April 25, 2026 09:49 PM (vTZFs)

369 Math warning!!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 25, 2026 09:49 PM (2Ez/1)

370 Salty!

Hi there, handsome! No luck on men out here. If they are conservative, they are henpecked by wives or girlfriends. Or they left Seattle a long time ago.

Oh well. It’s a lovely evening on the beach.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2026 09:49 PM (A5RD0)

371 I usually eat dinner at about 4:30 PM. But I don't eat a lot during the day.

Posted by: Mark1971 at April 25, 2026 09:49 PM (CNl8/)

372 Why in the hell isnt this asshole riddled with bullets?
Posted by: Jen the original at April 25, 2026 09:47 PM (8i9fb)

He might have information. This is a good example of enhanced interrogation being useful.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at April 25, 2026 09:49 PM (0aYVJ)

373 Moonbeam

Chinese EMP interference. Is the shooter Iranian? That would be most unfortunate for ... Iran.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2026 09:50 PM (u82oZ)

374 This is a wake-up call for the Dems to fund DHS to provide security for sleeper cells as we are in the middle of a war and have 250th anniversary coming up.

Schumer and Jefferies stop this crap!

Posted by: Joemarine at April 25, 2026 09:50 PM (y171U)

375
WaPo headline: Trump removed after loud noise heard.

Oh a loud noise? Someone dropped some dishes I guess.

Posted by: Heroq at April 25, 2026 09:50 PM (q1qnK)

376 Apropos of nothing… Am I the only person who thinks that 9pm is an ungodly late hour to eat dinner?? I eat dinner at 5pm and most nights in bed by 9:30 asleep by 10:30….. if I ate at 9 I couldn’t fall asleep until midnight. It’s nuts

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2026 09:48 PM (ALKK0)

I agree. Late dinners equal bad sleep. Especially since I cook and clean up the kitchen. Anyone who disagrees can get off my lawn.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 25, 2026 09:50 PM (7JD9w)

377
Are the correspondents still there?

Secret Service: "OK, everyone, spread 'em and squat."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2026 09:50 PM (tgvbd)

378 Diogenes

+ 6.022 x 10²³
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2026 09:47 PM (u82oZ)

Avogadro’s number is dangerously close to math. Tut tut

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2026 09:50 PM (ALKK0)

379 Linus, don't travel to Rio or Buenos Aires.

Restaurants (good ones) are deserted until 10 or 11. At least they used to be. Went to a pretty good steak house in Copacabana area many years ago, wasn't crowded until nearly midnight. Saturday night.

Very different timeline down there.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 25, 2026 09:51 PM (U/Byj)

380 LinusVanPelt

Living on the edge here.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2026 09:51 PM (u82oZ)

381 He might have information. This is a good example of enhanced interrogation being useful.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

Don't worry. This will only hurt for a week.

Posted by: a grinning agent at April 25, 2026 09:51 PM (VHUov)

382 >>This shit is why I tell everyone on our side to cheat in every possible way during elections.

You are not dealing with a loyal opposition.

Starting to feel the same way.

Posted by: Beverly at April 25, 2026 09:51 PM (reMys)

383 I never got the full story on how his script made it to Hollywood and eventually Steve McQueen, but Alan did work for a prominent law firm and probably a few calls via the old boys network got him access.

Same as it ever was, Lex.

Nice work.

Writing is the same way, as seen by others above. But with writers and publishers, you usually don't get kicked off your own project and have it handed to someone else.

Posted by: NYCer who doesn't own a car at April 25, 2026 09:52 PM (1Ff7Z)

384 Speaking if math: Great Mathematicians as Modern Math Teachers:

https://tinyurl.com/2s3uufrf

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at April 25, 2026 09:52 PM (kpS4V)

385 According to one witness weapon was "assembled" inside the bldg

—

Like that movie with Clint Eastwood and oh shit Rene Russo again. Lol.

Posted by: Heroq at April 25, 2026 09:52 PM (q1qnK)

386 363 Apropos of nothing… Am I the only person who thinks that 9pm is an ungodly late hour to eat dinner?? I eat dinner at 5pm and most nights in bed by 9:30 asleep by 10:30….. if I ate at 9 I couldn’t fall asleep until midnight. It’s nuts
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2026 09:48 PM (ALKK0)

I am like you...guess it comes with being older.

Posted by: Joemarine at April 25, 2026 09:52 PM (y171U)

387 He might have information. This is a good example of enhanced interrogation being useful.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame

The subject did not survive the interrogation.

Posted by: Hiigara Fleet Intelligence at April 25, 2026 09:52 PM (gKWVE)

388 A witness told me that Trump lurched forward and tried to seize the podium!

Posted by: Madison Cornbread at April 25, 2026 09:52 PM (JkO4W)

389
Dinner called off
Posted by: nurse ratched

=================

That's a lot of rubber chicken gone to waste. I hope they give it to the homeless.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 25, 2026 09:52 PM (n7rxJ)

390 If they re-schedule this event, you think Melania will attend?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 25, 2026 09:53 PM (2Ez/1)

391
That's a lot of rubber chicken gone to waste. I hope they give it to the homeless.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 25, 2026 09:52 PM (n7rxJ)

____________

I doubt even they would want it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2026 09:53 PM (tgvbd)

392 379. 9 pm dinners in New York is common. I’ve read Trump often wants dinner and snacks at midnight while he’s working at the WH.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 25, 2026 09:53 PM (8i9fb)

393 Rene Russo in her prime. Yum

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2026 09:54 PM (ALKK0)

394 There's an ONT.

Posted by: Zombie Thurl Ravenscroft at April 25, 2026 09:54 PM (vTZFs)

395 crap.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 25, 2026 09:54 PM (vTZFs)

396 That's a lot of rubber chicken gone to waste. I hope they give it to the homeless.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 25, 2026 09:52 PM (n7rxJ)

Homie don't eat that.

Posted by: Homie the Homeless Clown at April 25, 2026 09:54 PM (7JD9w)

397 387 The subject did not survive the interrogation.
Posted by: Hiigara Fleet Intelligence at April 25, 2026 09:52 PM (gKWVE)

Boo freakin' hoo.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 25, 2026 09:55 PM (DU5nB)

398 Is it time to start locking people (judges first) up?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2026 09:55 PM (jXvKN)

399 Well I'm upper-upper class high society
God's gift to ballroom notoriety
And I always fill my ballroom
The event is never small
The social pages say I've got
The biggest balls of all

Couldn’t resist adding some AC/DC lyrics. Because the word “ballroom” has been uttered on TV a thousand times tonight. Classic!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2026 09:56 PM (ALKK0)

400 What happens to all the food that was prepared for all those people? Is it all going to be tossed?

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2026 09:56 PM (A5RD0)

401 Interesting article and refreshing honesty. Thanks!

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 25, 2026 09:57 PM (NFX2v)

402 All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

Gauss was pretty funny. Thanks.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2026 09:57 PM (u82oZ)

403
162 I'm glad no one was hurt, but freakin' shooter upstaged my post.
Posted by: Lex at April 25, 2026 09:06 PM (y4H1r)

He deserved to die for that!

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 25, 2026 09:57 PM (JkyaL)

404 400 What happens to all the food that was prepared for all those people? Is it all going to be tossed?
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2026 09:56 PM (A5RD0)

Maybe they will donate to homeless shelters

Posted by: Joemarine at April 25, 2026 09:58 PM (y171U)

405 Linus, don't travel to Rio or Buenos Aires.

Restaurants (good ones) are deserted until 10 or 11. At least they used to be. Went to a pretty good steak house in Copacabana area many years ago, wasn't crowded until nearly midnight. Saturday night.

Very different timeline down there.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 25, 2026 09:51 PM (U/Byj)

***

I can confirm.
Nothing happens until after 11PM
And if you're are in Brasilia...go to the New York New York night club.
Trust me.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2026 09:59 PM (2WIwB)

406 U.S. President Donald Trump: "Quite an evening in D.C. Secret Service and Law Enforcement did a fantastic job. They acted quickly and bravely. The shooter has been apprehended, and I have recommended that we “LET THE SHOW GO ON” but, will entirely be guided by Law Enforcement. They will make a decision shortly. Regardless of that decision, the evening will be much different than planned, and we’ll just, plain, have to do it again."

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2026 10:00 PM (jXvKN)

407 If, God forbid, they'd murdered Trump, what would we do? Answer: as usual, nothing but squawk.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2026 09:36 PM (tgvbd)

Yup. The left is willing to sacrifice and/or die for their cause. Makes me wonder who'll actually win the war of ideals.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 25, 2026 10:00 PM (g8Ew8)

408 Serious question: how well is the food monitored to ensure that it is not poisoned? That is a very proven method of assassination.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at April 25, 2026 10:01 PM (0aYVJ)

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