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Correspondents’ Association dinner was [targeting Trump](/news/2026/4/26/trump-his-administration-likely-targets-at-media-dinner-us-official) and members of his administration. The suspect — who was armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives — rushed a US Secret Service checkpoint at the Washington Hilton
dinner when shots rang out. A gunman opened fire at the Washington Hilton hotel Saturday night, though he did not breach the basement-level ballroom where Trump was sitting at the time. The president described
correspondents’ dinner. The FCC – [led by Trump-appointed chairman Brendan Carr](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/27/fcc-chair-brendan-carr) – does not grant licenses to national television networks; rather, it licenses each individual station that broadcasts using the public airwaves