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He also made jokes about the president’s age and health. Two days later, a gunman named Cole Tomas Allen breached security at the Washington Hilton, where Trump, Melania, and several Cabinet members were attending the actual correspondents’ dinner. Allen, 31, was later charged with attempted assassination of the president. The timing of the joke, coming just before a real attack on the president, poured fuel on an already lit fire.