Cool as a cucumber: man calmly ate salad as press dinner shooting unfolded | White House correspondents’ dinner shooting
A guest attending a White House correspondents’ dinner maintained his table manners and was seen calmly settling into a salad plate Saturday, shortly after shots rang out and heavily armed Secret Service agents swarmed into the ballroom of the Washington Hilton hotel.
A. video clip It captured Michael Glantz, a senior talent agent at Creative Artists Agency, slowly mouthing the leaves of a burrata salad in the background of a stage just a few feet away, while cumming from everyone except a rifle-wielding officer wearing tactical combat gear.
“I’m a New Yorker,” Glantz said. New York Times In a brief interview after Donald Trump was taken to safety amid chaos and confusion and the event was eventually cancelled.
“We live with sirens and activity all the time. I wasn’t afraid. There are hundreds of Secret Service agents jumping over tables and chairs, and I wanted to watch.”
As the hashtag #saladman trended on social media on Monday, Glantz’s coolness under pressure was noticed by a wider audience. Author of the original “Man” video postReposted by Brian Stelter, CNN’s chief media analyst, he wrote.
Glantz told the New York Times that he was asked why he didn’t kneel on the floor, as did everyone at his table and most of the people in the ballroom.
“First of all, my back is bad,” he said.
“I couldn’t get on the floor, and if I fell, they’d have to call someone to pick me up. And I’m a hygiene freak. There was no way I could get into my new tuxedo on the dirty Hilton floor. No way.”
In a short interview later via TMZGlantz said he thought it was “silly” that his determination to eat his salad was getting so much attention, but he didn’t mind being laughed at.
Glantz wasn’t the only guest whose behavior drew attention following the ballroom shooting.
A woman who has not yet been identified caught on camera secretly took two unopened bottles of champagne and wine from a table; Another female participant took a selfie of herself while holding a separate bottle of champagne in the background.
