Under the category of No Hard Feelings, George Washington himself was an invited guest to watch King Charles address Congress, and he was thoroughly impressed!
G.W. was the guest of Rep. Michael Cloud, and America's 1st Prez watched intently as the King spoke to members of Congress and other dignitaries Tuesday.
His review -- BRILLIANT!!!
The OG non-religious father is well aware his experiment -- which is now 250 years old -- is still a work in progress. George feels like the thing that brought us together as a nation is still an important aspirational goal: Unity.
Gotta say ... he looks good for being 300. Looks like Kris Jenner's plastic surgeon put in some hours!
Rep. Rashida Tlaib thinks Senator Lindsey Graham is living in Fantasy Land by asking taxpayers to foot the bill for the White House ballroom, because she says it's the LAST thing Americans want.
Charlie got the Congresswoman from Michigan Tuesday on Capitol Hill, and she gave him an earful over the proposal that your tax dollars could pay $400 million for the structure.
As for the argument it's a secure location, thus preventing another shooting at an outside venue ... Tlaib says this is the first time there's been such an incident at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, and she blames it on lax security measures. She says there was no metal detector -- in fact, there was, but the shooter sprinted past it.
Don't you just hate when you show up to an event wearing the same outfit as someone else ... and that person turns out to be the Queen Consort of the United Kingdom? That's the exact situation First Lady Melania Trump found herself in with Queen Camilla and King Charles visited the White House Tuesday.
Check it out ... the two most powerful ladies in the house wore all-white outfits with huge hats to keep the sun out of their eyes -- and the ensembles are so similar ya gotta wonder how their respective teams didn't coordinate on this.
Of course, we've got a far more important question ... who'd you rather???
A Trump official decided the truce over nasty rhetoric is officially over, because he came out swinging Tuesday, calling Jimmy Kimmel a "s*** human being."
White House Communications Director Steven Cheung ferociously reacted to Kimmel's comments Monday night, not just for defending his joke about the First Lady, but also for attacking Donald Trump over his rhetoric.
Rep. Nancy Mace isn't mincing words over Jimmy Kimmel's joke last week ahead of the White House Correspondents' Dinner, calling Melania an "expectant widow" ... Mace thinks he should be canned.
On Monday,Charlie got the Congresswoman from South Carolina on Capitol Hill, and she feels talk like Kimmel's creates a volatile and even violent environment. She says the political climate is the reason people keep trying to assassinate President Trump, but they won't because "he's bulletproof."
Sean Hannity is calling on folks to tone down their rhetoric about President Trump in the wake of the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner ... he says there are a lot of unstable people out there who are influenced by all the negative labels getting attached to Trump's name.
We got the Fox News personality in New York City and our photog managed to ask him a couple questions about the shooting.
Kid Rock took a ride in a military helicopter Monday ... sitting in the gunner's seat as part of the celebration of America's 250th birthday.
The Apache chopper buzzed the D.C. area ... and cameras were rolling for Memorial Day, the big Independence Day birthday, and Kid Rock's Freedom 250 tour.
A Pentagon spokesperson tells TMZ DC ... "At each stop along his [upcoming] tour, Kid Rock has generously pledged 1,000 free tickets for members of the military and veterans."
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries isn't ready to weigh in on a joke Jimmy Kimmel made that triggered an angry First Family demand ... but he has an opinion about toxic talk, and he's not sparing the left.
Jacob got the House Minority Leader Monday on Capitol Hill ... turns out Jeffries hadn't heard Kimmel's joke last Thursday, in which he called Melania Trump an "expectant widow."
It prompted the First Lady and the Prez to call on ABC to fire Kimmel's ass. The comment was made 2 days before the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
The folks at the White House Correspondents' Dinner all left without injury, but thousands of lobsters weren't so lucky.
The shooting occurred while around 2,600 guests were enjoying their salads, but when the shooting erupted, everyone scattered for safety and the entrees were never served.
The menu included lobster and chateaubriand. Charlie was curious ... what happened to the delicious crustaceans?
Melania Trumpis demanding ABC fire Jimmy Kimmel... blasting the late-night host as a "coward" and accusing him of spreading "hateful and violent rhetoric" after his jokes about her family.
The First Lady unloaded in a fiery statement Monday ... saying Kimmel's monologue "isn't comedy" and claiming his comments are helping fuel division across the country. Kimmel's roast of the event aired Thursday night, days before the WHCD shooting in D.C. Saturday night.
"His words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America,” she said ... adding that people like Kimmel “shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate.”
Melania also accused the network of shielding Kimmel from consequences ... saying he “hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him.”
Cole Allen, the California teacher and video game developer suspected of opening fire at the White House Correspondents Dinner, sounds like he was a model student ... at least according to one of his old college professors.
Allen took a couple of Dr. Bin Tang's computer science courses at California State University - Dominguez Hills when he was earning his master's degree in the field ... and Tang recalled how Allen was as a student in an email to the AP.
Tang said of Allen ... "He was a very good student indeed, always sitting in the first row of my class, paying attention, and frequently emailing me with coursework questions. Soft-spoken, very polite, a good fellow. I am very shocked to see the news."
The guy who went viral for casually eating a salad in the aftermath of the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner is speaking out about his sudden internet fame ... and his appetite.
Michael Glantz is the man caught on camera munching on his dinner as the ballroom goes on lockdown ... and he tells TMZ he is glad folks are finding levity from the viral clip after such a "horrific moment."
A big-time agent at Creative Artists Agency, Michael says he felt very safe -- the place was crawling with law enforcement after the shooting -- and he wanted to watch everything unfolding in front of him, telling TMZ ... "Not every day you see something like that go down."
Michael reps CNN's Wolf Blitzer, and he tells us the only thing he was concerned about was Wolf, who got knocked over in the chaos. That and making sure his salad didn't go to waste.
Cole Allen, the California teacher and video game designer who authorities allege fired gunshots at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, was pretty active on LinkedIn ... and his page gives some insight into his background.
Allen's bio describes him as a "Mechanical engineer and computer scientist by degree, independent game developer by experience, teacher by birth."
He graduated from Caltech in 2017 with a degree in mechanical engineering ... and when he was in college, he was a member of Caltech's Christian fellowship and the Nerf club.
The armed suspect arrested in connection with the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner has been identified as 31-year-old Cole Allen, TMZ has confirmed, as new details emerged on what exactly happened.
During a press conference late Saturday night, Jeff Carroll, the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department interim chief, said the perpetrator was carrying a shotgun, handgun, and several knives when he tried to charge through a security checkpoint outside the ballroom at the Washington Hilton Hotel. At the time, President Trump, his cabinet officials, and the media were all gathered inside the ballroom for the event.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Sunday on "Meet the Press" that the suspect is beleived to have been targeting members of the Trump administration. The man allegedly squeezed off between 5 to 8 shots before he was apprehended.
Cole Allen, the California teacher & game designer who authorities allege shot up the White House Correspondents' Dinner, was featured in a news segment nearly a decade ago ... showing off a prototype he created to help make wheelchairs safer ... and the resurfaced clip is pretty interesting.
Allen was a student at Caltech in 2017 when he was interviewed by ABC7 in Los Angeles at an "Aging into the Future" conference.
In the resurfaced clip, Allen talks about developing a prototype for a wheelchair emergency brake.
He explains his invention ... "The wheelchair brakes tend to lock the wheels, but don't actually lock the chair to the ground ... the idea with this is to prevent it from moving at all."
