Secret Service says they are prepared for Trump to attend rescheduled press dinner

(22 Jul 2026) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: POOL Washington DC - 22 July 2026 1. SOUNDBITE (English) Sean Curran, Director, U.S. Secret Service: "We'll always evaluate every plan, just like we do every site. So if the example, the president goes to the same site 100 times, we will send an advance team there 100 times because things change, the environment changes, the actual footprint will change. But in this instance, no, I mean, the president's actually been back to the Hilton since. So I think you all know that maybe it hasn't been reported, but he has been, so we're always going to look at, you know, past visits and evaluate them." ++WHITE FLASH++ 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Sean Curran, Director, U.S. Secret Service: "We will always evaluate every site and right now we have an advanced team there and they will take back and they will set up a, a plan, to set that site up for success, just like we did, at the white House Correspondents Dinner at the Hilton. that is a success, that is why we set up checkpoints, that is why we we have our teams, our special teams in place, because we do plan for that and that's that's the reality. That's sometimes what people don't understand. If we didn't need the magnetometers, we wouldn't set them up. We do expect bad people to show up, it's just a reality of where where we are, but we're treating it no different than any other site that the president goes to." ++WHITE FLASH++ 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Quinn, Deputy Director, U.S. Secret Service: "No, I think there's this this mindset that, oh, it's a redo. We're doing this, every site is independent, so I'm not we're not looking at this going in like, oh, we're redoing the dinner. Yes, of course it is, a second run for the Correspondents Dinner, it is another site for us, like the thousands we've done and the dozens we've done since that time, taking it as an independent site, could it influence others? That goes back to advanced threat interdiction. Like what is putting people over the edge? We learn every single time. In graduations, we like to say, you know, difference between professionals and amateurs are amateurs examine their successes, professionals examine everything we do. So we examine every single site, and we change things and get better every single time." ++EDIT ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++ STORYLINE: U.S. Secret Service says they are prepared for President Donald Trump to attend the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association dinner this week. "We will always evaluate every site and right now we have an advanced team there and they will take back and they will set up a, a plan, to set that site up for success," said U.S. Secret Service Director Sean Curran at a press conference in Washington Wednesday. "We do expect bad people to show up, it's just a reality of where where we are, but we're treating it no different than any other site that the president goes to." The first dinner was cut short in April when a gunman, who prosecutors say was trying to assassinate Trump, opened fire at the Washington Hilton. The much smaller rescheduled dinner will take place Friday, with enhanced security precautions, at the capital's Waldorf Astoria Hotel, formerly the Trump International Hotel. =========================================================== Clients are reminded to adhere to all listed restrictions and to check the terms of their licence agreements. For further assistance, please contact the AP Archive on: Tel +44(0)2074827482 Email: [email protected]. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...