Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) reacted to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting and gave his thoughts on the White House Ballroom on “Hannity.” <\/p>\n
SEAN HANNITY: Democrat Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman said on X, it’s time to drop all the Trump Derangement Syndrome, phony outrage over the ballroom project, and get this thing built as soon as possible. And Senator Fetterman joins us right now with more. Senator, great to have you. I appreciate you saying that. I don’t know why it’s not going to cost the taxpayers a penny. It’s going to be one of the most secure buildings by far in the world. Why would there be any reluctance or resistance to building it when every future president will benefit from it? SEN. JOHN FETTERMAN (D-PA): I really don’t understand. The only thing that I could explain that it’s the TDS, you know, for me. I mean, I was right there. I was one or two tables away from the front table with the president and the vice president thing, and I’ve witnessed this. But even before that even happened, I was struck by, my gosh, we have the entire, you know, the line of succession right there in a very small kind of, you know, area there. You know, Johnson was there. Rubio was there, of course. The president and Vance was there, too, and Hegseth and all those people there. I mean, people have forgotten, forgotten perhaps what happened in Oklahoma City back in 1995. You know, somebody could have bombed the building for that, you know. And now I was the only Democrat that refused to vote to shut the DHS down, and it is. And now we’re here in conflict of Iran. Iran’s already have the desire to assassinate the president, too. So I think after tonight there, I’m thinking we really got lucky because it could have been far more even categorific, and I’m so grateful no one was hurt. But that’s why I’m saying, you know, we need to have a secure facility for events just like this. We can’t ever allow to be exposed in that way to an attack. That hotel was never designed to do that in a safe way. When I witnessed that that night. HANNITY: Senator, you know, you’ve heard the constant refrain, Hitler, fascist, racist, Gestapo. Do you connect that rhetoric that has been going on 11 years? Is it so dehumanizing? Do you find it insightful? Are people purposely inciting those that are not well in society? FETTERMAN: Yeah, I well, again, I’ve always refused to use that that kind of language, and I strongly in the in the strongest term, I reject the extreme rhetoric on for for anyone at this point. I mean, you know, we really have to just again turn that temperature down. I mean, you know, the president was shot in the head in my own stage is back in Butler to people seems they forgot that too. I mean, that was a, you know, a quarter of an inch to the one side. You know, we could have lost him there, too. So we can’t forget that. And now it’s just absurd to me why we wouldn’t have a more secure issue and have the kind of event just like the ballroom. I never really had an issue with the ballroom before all that. But clearly what happened there, I can’t imagine why we can’t just agree. Like, look, I don’t have to love everything about it. You know, we do need that kind of facility. And, you know, the president may not even be in office when it’s even finished. So how it would it’s done. But our country deserves that. And that’s going to create a venue for more secure and inclusive and really more accessible for people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n