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WASHINGTON — <\/span>Federal law enforcement officials are evaluating how to proceed with some high-profile public events featuring President Donald Trump after the attack at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner<\/a>.<\/p>\n The third violent assault in the vicinity of Trump in less than two years is renewing the central tension confronting the Republican president\u2019s defenders: how to accommodate the public-facing demands of the presidency while minimizing the risk of an attack.<\/p>\n Saturday\u2019s episode, in which a man armed with guns and knives<\/a> tried to storm the Washington hotel ballroom<\/a> where the president was set to address the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association, comes ahead of Trump\u2019s expected participation in a stretch of large, high-profile events indoors and outdoors in the months ahead. Among them, he\u2019s set to mark the nation\u2019s 250th anniversary<\/a>, oversee the U.S. co-hosting the World Cup<\/a> and lead rallies meant to galvanize support for Republicans ahead of November\u2019s midterm elections<\/a>. <\/p>\n White House chief of staff Susie Wiles will hold a meeting this week with officials from the White House operations team, the Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security to discuss security protocol at events with the president, according to a senior White House official. The meeting will examine security steps that were successful on Saturday while \u201cexploring additional options\u201d for future events, said the official, who insisted on anonymity to confirm private discussions. <\/p>\n Separately, a person familiar with the matter said the U.S. Secret Service was already reevaluating its security footing for the upcoming events. The agency\u2019s posture was already elevated due to the extraordinary number of threats facing Trump \u2014 including two back-to-back assassination attempts in 2024 \u2014 and the realities of recent events such as the U.S.-Iran war.<\/p>\n \u201cI can\u2019t imagine that there\u2019s any profession that is more dangerous,\u201d Trump said of the presidency Saturday night from the White House.<\/p>\n Inside the Secret Service, agents on protective intelligence and threat assessment teams are also reexamining threats made against Trump in recent months. Copycat violence can follow high-profile attacks, according to the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive security planning.<\/p>\n The White House and Buckingham Palace said King Charles and Queen Camilla\u2019s state visit<\/a> Monday is going ahead as planned. Still, organizing around large-scale events deeper in the future \u2014 including the UFC bout on the White House lawn<\/a> marking Trump\u2019s 80th birthday in June, World Cup matches and the IndyCar race<\/a> past the White House \u2014 could get more complicated. <\/p>\n Lawmakers, event attendees and some allies of the president saw fault in the correspondents\u2019 dinner security planning, questioning why someone like the shooter could reserve a room at the hotel to sneak in weapons around the outermost layer of security.<\/p>\n Republican Texas Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman emeritus of the House Homeland Security Committee, said security protocols for Trump and Vice President JD Vance may need altering. <\/p>\n \u201cI think the Secret Service needs to reconsider having both the president and vice president together at something like that,\u201d McCaul told CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union.\u201d <\/p>\n Kari Lake<\/a>, a former unsuccessful Republican gubernatorial candidate in Arizona and Trump\u2019s pick to lead the U.S. Agency for Global Media, complained about not having to show a photo ID to match her ticket to the event when entering the hotel for the correspondents\u2019 dinner. \u201cI can\u2019t believe how lax the security was,\u201d Lake wrote on X.<\/p>\n The Secret Service is charged only with the safety of its protectees, not of the event itself, and the agency immediately celebrated its response, drawing a high-profile endorsement from Trump himself.<\/p>\n \u201cOur multilayered protection works,\u201d director Sean Curran said Saturday.<\/p>\n \u201cThose guys did a good job last night. They did a really good job,\u201d echoed Trump on Sunday in an interview with CBS News\u2019 \u201c60 Minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n Garrett Graff, author of \u201cRaven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government\u2019s Secret Plan to Save Itself \u2014 While the Rest of Us Die,\u201d wrote in an analysis of the multiple layers of security around Trump during the dinner, \u201cSeems like the system basically working as designed, amid the always necessary trade-offs of security in a free society.\u201d<\/p>\n Retired Secret Service Agent Thomas D. Quinn, who helped pioneer Secret Service counterassault teams, posted on X that \u201cthe Secret Service security plan for the WHCD worked and the assailant was stopped.\u201d He continued, \u201cAs long as we are a free people in a freedom loving Nation, the Secret Service responsibilities will continue to be immense.\u201d <\/p>\n Ronald Kessler, author of \u201cIn the President\u2019s Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect,\u201d said authorities are likely to consider placing bulletproof glass around where Trump speaks outside and inside \u2014 not unlike after the Butler, Pennsylvania, assassination attempt during the heat of the 2024 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n