UFC President and CEO Dana White, who was seated directly in front of President Donald Trump’s table at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on Saturday, described the chaos that erupted when shots rang out as “f-cking awesome.”
White spoke to reporters and made the extremely on-brand comments immediately after the incident at the Washington Hilton hotel.
“It started getting noisy,” White told reporters. “Tables getting flipped over, guys running in with guns. And they were screaming, ‘Get down!’ But I didn’t get down. It was f***ing awesome. I literally took every minute of it in. It was a pretty crazy, unique experience.”
The UFC head continued, “We were sitting right in front of the table, right in front of where the president was. Guys came in, looking for shooters. They came toward our table. I thought the shooter was over by us or something, but no. It was a unique experience.”
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Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, had rushed a Secret Service checkpoint while armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives.
An exchange of gunfire occurred, and a Secret Service agent was shot but was wearing a bulletproof vest and sustained non-life-threatening injuries.
Allen was taken into custody at the scene.
No serious injuries were reported among attendees.
Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the shooter “set out to target folks that work in the Trump administration, likely including the president,” which Allen also discussed in his manifesto, as The Gateway Pundit reported on Sunday.
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro stated that Allen faces charges including using a firearm during a crime of violence and assault of a federal officer, with additional charges expected at his federal arraignment on Monday.
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