Hours after a gunman attempted to enter the White House Correspondents Dinner at the Washington Hilton, President Trump used the security incident to publicly advocate for his planned White House ballroom project.
At a press conference following the evacuation of Trump and several cabinet members, Trump called the Hilton 'not a particularly secure building' and framed the attack as justification for the new venue. The argument is direct: move the event, solve the security problem, build the ballroom.
The full story at The Verge details how Trump connected a live security threat to a construction pitch within the same news cycle. The timing and the logic are both worth reading closely.
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