from CNN IRAN LEGO:

Trump Uses Latest Faux Assassination Attempt To Fire Everyone & Build the ‘Ballroom’

On April 25, 2026, an armed suspect named Cole Thomas Allen approached the security checkpoint at the White House Correspondents Dinner at the Washington Hilton carrying a shotgun, handgun, and knives. Secret Service agents exchanged fire. One agent was struck in the chest but survived thanks to a bulletproof vest.

The suspect was apprehended. Early reports raised questions about friendly fire — later clarified by CBS and other outlets as the suspect’s round, not a colleague’s bullet. But what happened next raised even bigger questions. One day before the dinner, the Trump administration fired all 24 members of the National Science Board — the governing body overseeing the National Science Foundation — via boilerplate termination emails. No hearings. No explanation. Scientists and Democrats called it a direct erasure of scientific independence.

Then came the ballroom. Trump cited security concerns from the dinner incident to push forward construction of a new White House East Wing ballroom — a project already facing legal pushback and demolition controversy.