Many attendees took cover on the floor and under the tables as a gunman tried to get into the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on Saturday.
But one man went viral for a very different response as the police swept the room and Secret Service swiftly removed President Donald Trump and other dignitaries.
Creative Artists Agency agent Michael Glantz was caught on C-SPAN’s cameras remaining in his seat and even taking a few bites from his spring pea and burrata salad as the chaos unfolded all around him:
“First of all, I have a bad back. I couldn’t get on the floor, and if I did get on the floor, they’d have to bring in people to get me off the floor,” he said. “And No. 2, I’m a hygiene freak. There was no freaking way I was getting in my new tux on the dirty Hilton floor. It was not happening.”
Glantz became a minor sensation online:
Glantz told White House Correspondents Insider he wasn’t nervous.
One Secret Service agent was struck by a bullet, which hit his protective vest, and is expected to recover. The suspect was detained at the scene and will be arraigned on Monday.
No one was seriously injured.
Check out the full sequence, as captured by C-SPAN, below:
