{"id":21953,"date":"2026-04-28T01:22:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T01:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-world-launches-ballroom-blitz-in-wake-of-whca-dinner-shooting\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T01:22:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T01:22:05","slug":"trump-world-launches-ballroom-blitz-in-wake-of-whca-dinner-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-world-launches-ballroom-blitz-in-wake-of-whca-dinner-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump World launches ballroom blitz in wake of WHCA dinner shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump and his political allies are pointing to Saturday&rsquo;s shooting at the White House Correspondents&rsquo; Association (WHCA) dinner as providing urgent proof of the need for his planned ballroom on White House grounds, touting its security strengths for large events.&nbsp; Trump highlighted the ballroom&rsquo;s potential security benefits shortly after the shooting on Saturday&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5851718-trump-ballroom-security-shooting-debate\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump and his political allies are pointing to Saturday&rsquo;s shooting at the White House Correspondents&rsquo; Association (WHCA) dinner as providing urgent proof of the need for his planned ballroom on White House grounds, touting its security strengths for large events.&nbsp; Trump highlighted the ballroom&rsquo;s potential security benefits shortly after the shooting on Saturday&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}