ABC Reporter Shares Touching Story Of President Trump Calling ‘To See If I Was OK’ After Sh**ting

The mainstream media has faced heightened scrutiny after Saturday’s  shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, with critics pointing out a long record of incendiary, if not violent, rhetoric used by prominent figures in stories about President Donald Trump.

But for his part, Trump responded to the latest apparent attempt on his life with a call for unity. And as ABC News’ Jonathan Karl revealed, that even goes for those in the media.

Here’s what the Daily Caller reported:

“My phone rang shortly after 7 a.m. My landline, George, actually a number that few people call, and it was President Trump calling,” Karl said. “He was, he said at first he was calling to see if I was OK with what happened last night and then he reiterated many of the things he said in his press conference last night, emphasizing the unity that he felt in that moment that he felt at the dinner before the shooting and certainly after with the people who reached out to him.”

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“He said absolutely, and he was quite firm about this, that dinner must be rescheduled, it must be rescheduled,” Karl continued. “He knows that I was a former president of the White House Correspondents’ Association and worked with him on a dinner that never actually happened back during COVID, and he was saying we’ve got to get this dinner back on. It has to happen.”

In the immediate aftermath of the attack, Trump, who survived two assassination attempts during the 2024 campaign, expressed a desire to head back out and give his planned speech, but he returned to the White House after the Secret Service invoked “protocol,” where he gave a press conference in the White House briefing room.

Karl’s revelation soon spread via social media, where users largely applauded the president’s caring act … even if some felt it was undeserved.

This is like calling Lucifer to make sure he is ok. President Trump is the most forgiving and incredible President in the modern era. We honestly do not deserve this man

— FloridaBuckeye21 (@BuckeyeChi5) April 26, 2026

Backup here if needed:

He wins every time he’s the better person.

— Julia 🇺🇸 (@Jules31415) April 27, 2026

Why? Most of these so called “journalists” actually are propagandists liars would be celebrating had the deranged TDS lunatic been successful.
Watching these scumbags talk the next day is nauseating 🙄

— KitCat (@172KitCat) April 27, 2026

In remarks on Sunday, Trump reiterated his desire to see the political tension dialed back, as PBS reported:

“I saw some Democrats, as we were leaving — and they were generally hostile — and last night they were waving to me. Politicians, congressmen, senators. They were waving and saying, ‘Great going’ and ‘Hello,'” Trump said. “The place was just coming together. It was very nice to see.”

He also said he had originally planned to give a speech blistering the media. “I was gonna really rip it last night,” Trump said of his initial plan.

But immediately after the incident, when there was some thought that the event would carry on, Trump said he wanted to change course with remarks that were “gonna be much different. It’ll be a speech of love.”

“But I didn’t get a chance to do that,” Trump said. “Probably I was better off, if I didn’t. I don’t know.”

There was still some of his old edge, especially when he spoke about the suspect: “I hated a guy like this — a sick, bad person — I hated somebody like that changing the course of our country.”

Here’s a deeper discussion of the current political environment in the context of Saturday’s shooting: