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Trump Delivers Remarks at the Rescheduled White House Correspondents' Dinner, Jul. 24, 2026

July 24, 2026 · The White House · 1:04:52

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What happened

President Donald Trump addressed the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on July 24, 2026 — the event rescheduled from April, when, as he recounted, gunfire interrupted the dinner at the Washington Hilton. “As I said three months ago, the show must go on,” he said. “From the earliest moments after the attack on our dinner last April, I knew we had to reschedule this event as soon as possible.”

He called the April attack “an assault on our democracy itself” and praised those who, in his telling, stood on tables as others took cover, naming Pete Hegseth, Stephen Miller, and Tom Homan. The resolve line framed the evening: “Tonight we come back together to answer that heinous attack with unwavering resolve… in America we do not yield to political violence. In this country we believe in freedom of speech. We settle our differences not with bullets but with open and vigorous debate.” The balance of the remarks was the traditional dinner comedy — roasts of the press, of named politicians, and of himself — before he closed on respect for the profession: “Your profession is amazing… I did this for one reason, to make America great again.”

Why it matters

The correspondents’ dinner is an annual ritual of president–press relations; the 2026 edition is defined by its interruption and its deliberate rescheduling, which makes the President’s free-speech framing here — delivered to the press corps itself — the substantive record of the evening alongside the comedy.

Sources: The White House, “President Trump Delivers Remarks, Jul. 24, 2026” (official upload, embedded above; the upload’s description places the event in Washington, DC; uploaded July 25, 2026). All characterizations as stated by the President at the dinner.