Tighter security in place for White House Correspondents’ Dinner 2.0
President Trump will attend a rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Dinner on July 24 with heightened security measures. The event will be held at the Waldorf Astoria, feature digital tickets, and limit attendance to roughly 1,000 guests. Officials say the expanded security plan, including magnetometers and a screening firm, addresses the failures that allowed an attempted assassin to breach the April dinner.
- ▪The dinner has moved to the Waldorf Astoria, a venue that holds about a quarter of the capacity of the previous Washington Hilton location.
- ▪Digital tickets will replace printed passes, and only attendees with valid tickets will pass through Secret Service magnetometers.
- ▪Cole Thomas Allen, who entered the April dinner as a hotel guest with a shotgun and pistol, prompted the security overhaul.
- ▪Secret Service spokesman Tom Lynch expressed confidence in the new security plan, which includes a dedicated security firm and tighter venue controls.
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US News Tighter security in place for White House Correspondents’ Dinner 2.0 By Geoff Earle Published July 18, 2026, 7:35 a.m. ET (function() { var overlay = document.getElementById("nyp-player-lcp-overlay"); if (!overlay) { return; } function hideOverlay() { overlay.remove(); } function afterDCL() { requestAnimationFrame(hideOverlay); } if (document.readyState === "loading") { document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", afterDCL, { once: true }); } else { afterDCL(); } })(); See more of our coverage in your search results.
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