The US president returned to the briefing room minutes later and said the situation that was ‘under control’.
United States President Donald Trump was abruptly evacuated from the White House briefing room on Monday after shots were fired outside the building, Reuters reported. The president returned to the briefing room minutes later and told reporters that someone had been shot by the Secret Service outside the White House grounds.
The doors to the White House briefing room were locked shortly before Trump was escorted out. He was taken to the Oval Office, which is in the West Wing of the White House.
The Secret Service tweeted that an officer was involved in the shooting at 17th Street Northwest and Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest. This is one block from the White House.
The president was speaking about the stock market when a Secret Service agent came into the room and asked him to leave the area.❐
