U.S. President Donald Trump holds an executive order signing in the Oval Office of the White House on April 30, 2026 in Washington, DC.
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President Donald Trump on Thursday said he does not worry about another attempt on his life on the heels of what prosecutors say was a third assassination effort against him by a gunman at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on April 24.
“I don’t think about it,” Trump told a reporter when asked at the White House if he was concerned about another assassination attempt.
“If I did, I wouldn’t be he,” the president said.
Trump also said he was not inclined to wear a bulletproof vest, as some people have suggested.
“i don’t know if i can handle being 20 pounds heavier,” he quipped to laughs from administration officials and lawmakers who were in the Oval Office for his signing of an executive order to create a new type of retirement account for workers who do not have access to a 401(k) or another tax-advantaged workplace investment plan.
Trump narrowly avoided being assassinated by gunman Thomas Crooks at a July 13, 2024 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Crooks was killed by a Secret Service agent, but not before firing shots that struck Trump in his right ear, killing audience member Corey Comperatore, and seriously wounded two other people.
Two months after that incident, on Sept. 15, 2024, a Secret Service officer shot at another gunman who was hiding in shrubs along the perimeter of the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida. That man, Ryan Routh, was convicted in Florida federal court on Sept. 23 of trying to assassinate Trump, and of other charges.
Routh is now serving a life sentence in prison.
