Khaberni - Just minutes before President Donald Trump entered the "Washington Hilton" hall to participate in the White House correspondents' dinner, Levitt stood on the red carpet for an interview with the media, enthusiastically speaking about the speech prepared by the president for the evening.
With a confident smile, Levitt said, "There will be some gunshots tonight in this show."
During her energetic appearance on the red carpet, Caroline Levitt painted a different picture of Donald Trump's character, describing him as "the funniest human I have ever met," asserting that he has the courage to say what others are afraid of.
Levitt clarified that Trump was not preparing to deliver a dry political speech, but was "ready for the showdown" with the improvisational comedy he masters.
At the peak of her talk about the anticipated enthusiasm for the evening, Levitt launched a phrase that acquired a dramatic and "scary" character minutes later when she said, "There will be some gunshots tonight in this show."
This phrase propelled the conspiracy rhetoric to dominate social media platforms, and many activists echoed messages that the incident was plotted due to Trump's recently declining popularity.
However, an analysis of the comments by the White House spokesperson reveals that she used the expression (Shots Fired) in its common political and media sense in the United States, which refers to biting jokes, sharp criticisms, and reciprocal rhetorical attacks that are famous for the (Roast) parties.
She added that Trump "will bring the heat" and that his speech will be "classic and entertaining."
Levitt, nor the hundreds of attendees who were exchanging laughs, could not imagine that this metaphorical expression would turn into an urgent security report moments later.
While the audience was anticipating the "verbal bullets" promised by the spokesperson, real gunshots echoed throughout the hotel, turning the celebration scene into a field of panic, where Secret Service officers rushed to evacuate the president, and guests took shelter under the tables.
Immediately after the incident, a video clip of the interview swept through social media platforms, achieving more than 13 million views in record time. Followers on the "X" platform described the clip as a "bizarre coincidence," as it seemed as if the White House spokesperson had predicted the event unknowingly.
In another part of the interview that may now gain new importance, Levitt mentioned that President Trump "had put his personal touches on the paper himself" to write parts of the speech.
This detail increased the followers' confusion about whether the original speech contained "political messages" that would have changed the course of the evening, before the bullets of "Cole Allen" wrote a completely different ending to the event.
In parallel to the widespread interaction with the clip, the coincidence between Levitt's statement and the shooting incident led some accounts on social media to promote conspiracy theories claiming that the White House spokesperson had prior knowledge of what would happen, based on the use of the phrase "gunshots."
However, this claim ignores that the expression is common and prevalent in American political culture as a metaphor for verbal attack and biting satire, especially in the context of satirical political dinner parties.
After controlling the suspect, Levitt posted a brief tweet on her X platform account stating that President Trump would deliver a statement in the White House briefing room, the first official signal from the American administration following the incident.
