Sunday Afternoon Updates: Trump Turns a Shooting Into a Propaganda Parade — 4/26/26

Hi all, Ben here. It’s Sunday afternoon. Let me walk you through everything we’re tracking today following last nights shooting near the White House Correspondents’ dinner. The throughline connecting a lot of it is this regime’s shameless instinct to exploit anything and everything for political gain.

Here’s what we’re following:

• The WHCD shooting incident and what we actually know

• The coordinated MAGA ballroom propaganda blitz

• Trump’s morning post demanding his golden ballroom

• Cole Allen: who is the suspect?

• Footage shows the Secret Service protected Vance before Trump, and all the nation’s top officials were in the room at the same time

• Todd Blanche and the media’s usual attempts to silence criticism of Trump

• Trump’s fake Iran meeting and continued market manipulation

• Farm bankruptcies, starving troops, Epstein, and more

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Let’s dive in.