Trump’s Ballroom Won’t Help With Security & Is ONLY A VANITY Project | Chuck Todd Politics Podcast
April 27, 2026
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as posted by the channelChuck Todd identifies two specific loopholes the Correspondents’ Dinner shooter exploited — the lack of security on Amtrak (which he took from California) and his ability to stay at the Hilton as a regular hotel guest — but emphasizes that this was not a security failure: the screening worked exactly as intended, the gunman never made it down the stairs to the ballroom, and there's no such thing as 100% security against a determined lone wolf actor. He flatly rejectsTrump's attempt to use the incident to justify his planned White House ballroom project, calling it what it is: a vanity play that has nothing to do with security and everything to do with ego, in a moment when the country desperately needs leadership willing to lower the temperature rather than turn it up.
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