A White House Correspondents' Dinner guest who went viral for casually munching on his burrata salad as others ducked for cover at the sound of gunfire explained his calm demeanor Sunday.

“First of all, I have a bad back. I couldn’t get on the floor, and if I did get on the floor, they’d have to bring in people to get me off the floor,” Creative Artists Agency agent Michael Glantz told the New York Times.

“And No. 2, I’m a hygiene freak. There was no freaking way I was getting my new tux on the dirty Hilton floor. It was not happening.”

Glantz was captured on CNN sneaked a fork full of salad despite the chaos and commotion at the DC gala Saturday night.

He quickly went viral for his even-keel approach, which he further elaborated on.

“I’m a New Yorker,” he told the Times.

“We live with sirens and activity happening all the time. I wasn’t scared.

“There are hundreds of Secret Service agents hurtling themselves over tables and chairs, and I wanted to watch.”

President Trump “wasn’t worried” when gunshots erupted outside the White House Correspondents Dinner Saturday night after surviving two other attempts on his life in less than two years.

The GOP leader revealed to "60 Minutes" his unbothered state of mind when the sound of gunfire rang out as he sat next to First Lady Melania Trump during the star-studded event.

“I wasn't worried. I understand life,” Trump said when asked if he was concerned about injuries. “We live in a crazy world.”

The celebratory dinner quickly turned into chaos when accused gunman Cole Allen raced to carry out carnage inside the Washington Hilton.

Cole was stopped before he could carry out his plan outlined in an apparent manifesto to target top Trump officials. He was detained near a security checkpoint leading up to the venue’s ballroom, where the dinner was taking place.

He is currently in custody and facing charges. 

Former President Barack Obama weighed in on the gunfire at the White House Correspondents Dinner – but caught ire from conservatives for claiming details about the motives were still unknown. 

"Although we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind last night's shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner, it’s incumbent upon all us to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy,” he wrote on X Sunday afternoon.

“It’s also a sobering reminder of the courage and sacrifice that U.S. Secret Service Agents show every day. I’m grateful to them – and thankful that the agent who was shot is going to be okay.”

Online commentators quickly pointed out accused gunman Cole Allen had an anti-Trump manifesto that claimed he wanted to target officials in the administration.

“There is no ambiguity. It was a politically motivated attack driven by anti-Trump and anti-Christian bile. It’s wrong to downplay or obscure the obvious motive,” argued former spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin. 

Democratic politicians are being singled out for clutching their pearls over Saturday night's White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting — while eagerly contributing to the rhetoric critics say leads to acts of political violence.

The lefty lawmakers practically tripped over each other to be first in line to condemn the attempted mass shooting, in which crazed accused gunman Cole Allen, 31, barged into the Washington Hilton intending to kill President Trump and other administration officials.

But dozens of pols' past comments highlighted by RNC Research after the attack show that Former President Joe Biden's limp 2024 call to "lower the temperature' of American politics after the first assassination attempt against President Trump has gone unheeded by the political left.

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) wrote on social media that she is "grateful the President and all the guests from last night's event are safe, and no one was seriously injured," adding that "political violence has no place in America."

RNC Research shared her X post, pointing out that she's called the president an "existential threat to democracy," and blasting her for her choice of language that is "inciting violence" against President Trump and Republicans.

Failed 2024 vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, also the embattled outgoing governor of Minnesota, put out a cookie-cutter statement that "political violence has become all too prevalent in America."

Few Democrats can claim to have attempted to sow more fear in Americans about President Trump than Walz, who has routinely compared him and his administration to fascists and Nazis.

"No one has ever been more dangerous to this country than Donald Trump, and he is a fascist to his core," he said during a campaign rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, in 2024.

In response to the attack, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), issued a statement saying only that he was "monitoring the unfolding situation" at the gala and that he was "grateful" for the work of law enforcement.

RNC Research points out that Schumer has yet to condemn the "radical leftist" who tried to assassinate the president.

Brooklyn Democratic Congressman Hakeem Jeffries thanked law enforcement and proclaimed "the violence and chaos in America must end" on X.

Just three days earlier, Jeffries called for "maximum warfare" against President Trump and the administration.

All the president's men.

Photos posted by White House staffers show President Trump reacting to updates on the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner from the Oval Office.

White House deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino posted a black-and-white picture of Trump looking at a cellphone from behind the Resolute Desk at 10:15 ET Sunday night.

The commander-in-chief was surrounded by a slew of officials, including Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. It is unclear exactly what Team Trump was looking at on the device.

White House deputy chief of staff James Blair posted another photo from the Oval Office from behind Trump. Blair's snap shows other staffers, including press secretary Karoline Leavitt and some officials' spouses, including Jeanette Dousdebes Rubio and Hegseth's wife Jennifer Rauchet.

The White House is reportedly weighing new security measures for President Trump after three attempts on his life in the past two years — including a bulletproof vest.

Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy said Sunday that there are "discussions underway" at the highest levels about whether "President Trump is going to have to start wearing a bullet-proof vest for future events in public."

The president has now faced three legitimate threats on his life from three armed madmen, one of whom came within centimeters of fatally striking his head.

On Saturday night in Washington, DC, during the White House Correspondents' Dinner, Trump-hating maniac Cole Allen stormed a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton where the gala was being held and engaged Secret Service agents in a firefight, striking one in their body armor.

According to a rambling manifesto he sent to his family 10 minutes before the attack, which his brother handed over to Connecticut police, Allen was targeting Trump and any other administration officials he could aim his gun at.

Allen was tackled and arrested after the gunfire, and the agent he struck is expected to recover fully.

The president was also targeted by gunmen twice during the 2024 presidential campaign.

On July 13, lone gunman Thomas Crooks grazed the president's ear, killed a beloved firefighter and critically wounded two other Trump supporters when he opened fire on the president from a rooftop during a campaign stop in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Crooks was killed when Trump's security detail fired back.

Two months later, Ryan Routh camped out for 12 hours in a sniper's nest with an SKS assault rifle on the edge of Trump International West Palm Beach golf club as then-candidate Trump was playing the links.

Routh was sentenced to life in prison in February.

The Post reached out to the White House about the security measures.

President Trump taped an interview with "60 Minutes" about the shooting at Saturday night's White House Correspondents' Dinner.

White House communications director Steven Cheung posted a photo on X showing Trump sitting down with CBS News and "60 Minutes" correspondent Norah O'Donnell in the Diplomatic Reception Room.

O'Donnell was in attendance at the event in the Washington Hilton, where alleged gunman Cole Allen opened fire outside of the ballroom, where he targeted the Trump administration officials in attendance.

The "60 Minutes" episode featuring Trump will air on CBS at 7 p.m. ET.

A Los Angeles County deputy district attorney has revealed he is close friends with the parents of the gunman snared at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

Paul Thompson, a Democratic major crimes division prosecutor, told The California Post he lives next door to the family but said Cole Allen “pretty much kept to himself.”

He said the Caltech-educated gunman, who is accused of trying to storm the doors just yards away from President Trump, still lived with his parents at the address in Torrance.

Thompson, who is running for a judicial seat on the county Superior Court and had a campaign sign on the Allens’ front lawn, said he has lived next to the family for a couple of years.

He told the Post: “I didn’t really know the guy that’s accused of committing the crimes in DC last night. I know his parents. Obviously we’ve been neighbors for a couple of years.”

He described Allen’s parents as “pretty normal, non-violent and friendly,” adding he may have interacted with them earlier the same day as the shooting.

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Gavin Newsom has issued an awkward statement about the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter — hours after mocking Trump’s appearance at the event.

Ahead of the banquet, the California governor’s press office decided to use the opportunity to make fun of the president.

“Good luck to ‘Little D’ tonight at the WHCD dinner,” Newsom’s team said in all caps, attributing the statement to “Governor GCN”. “Glad he is finally seeing a ‘mentalist.’ Long overdue!”

After shots were fired at the dinner and a suspect was detained, the governor changed his tune on the event.

“Relieved everyone at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner is safe tonight based on initial reports,” Newsom said from his official X account. “A free press is foundational to our country. Violence is never acceptable.”

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WASHINGTON — Duck, cover, and grab the wine!

A woman was caught on camera blissfully snatching bottles of wine during the chaotic aftermath of the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

While throngs of reporters and other guests fled the Washington Hilton ballroom, an unknown blonde woman wearing posh black fur went straight for a table to stockpile booze.

Because the shooting took place early on during the salad portion of the marquee dinner, there was an abundance of wine left abandoned at tables across the ballroom.

The woman’s identity is not immediately clear, and it’s not apparent whether she was a journalist or some other guest.

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WASHINGTON — A chorus of bipartisan criticism is mounting over the security loopholes at the venue for the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner — while President Trump and his allies insisted Saturday’s shooting proves the need for his planned über-secure White House ballroom.

Critics slammed the security loopholes that allowed guests to check into the historic Washington Hilton hotel without undergoing weapons screenings from the outside.

Authorities say that’s how Cole Tomas Allen was able to sneak a shotgun, a handgun and multiple knives into the building where President Trump, most of his cabinet and many top members of congress were mingling with journalists.

As has been the standard practice in past WHCA dinners, the weapons screenings took place at a checkpoint on the floor above the Washington Hilton’s ballroom, where the event was taking place.

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