US President Donald Trump said he wasn't worried when Secret Service agents hustled him out of the White House Correspondents' Association dinner after a gunman opened fire at the Washington Hilton hotel.
Trump described the chaotic moments that ensued after shots were fired at the hotel, one floor above the basement-level ballroom, which was the venue of the annual dinner.
'I wasn't worried. I understand life. We live in a crazy world,' Trump said when asked how worried he was about possible injuries after hearing the gunshots.
He said his curiosity to see for himself what was happening probably slowed the Secret Service's efforts to rush him to safety.
Trump recalled that the Secret Service agents had to repeatedly tell him to go down on the floor as they exited the stage.
'I started walking. And they said, 'Please go down, please go down on the floor.' So I went down and the first lady went down also,' Trump said.
