When you realize the president is too stupid to understand he invited a near disaster to take place

 "Dumb Donald is really dumb!"---Gene Rayburn, Match Game, 1973-84.

When president Trump announced he was attending this year White House Correspondents' Dinner, he was, in effect, issuing an invitation to any of his detractors, the ones with malice on their minds, to show up in Washington to take a shot at him.

On Saturday night, someone did take him up on the "invitation", but never made it to the ballroom.

Cole Thomas Allen of California, a teacher & mechanical engineer by trade, showed up armed with a handgun, shotgun, and knives, and, per a manifesto released after his arrest on Saturday, had intended to go after the president and most of his cabinet, the lone exception being embattled FBI director "Counterfeit" Kash Patel. While Allen managed to avoid building security, the Secret Service did their job, and captured him before he could reach the ballroom, which was being evacuated.

Unfortunately, there are those on both sides who believe the event was staged as a distraction from Trump's many problems, including the war he started against Iran, and, of course, the ongoing demand for more transparency on the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Well, when you've cried wolf as much as Trump has, skepticism is bound to accompany something like this.

Catering to his obsessive-compulsive need for attention, Trump hastily scheduled an interview with 60 Minutes that aired on Sunday. Norah O'Donnell pressed Trump on whether or not the incident was staged, as people have claimed, and he denied it.

He also did what he does best, whining about O'Donnell's line of questioning. Yo, you asked for the interview on short notice, Mango Judas.

Trump's idea is to spin it to gain sympathy for the need to build his own ballroom at the White House, replacing the East Wing destroyed by Trump last year. There's no guarantee that would be any safer, Dumb Donald! Worse, this oblivious moron wants the dinner rescheduled for next month. That would mean another open invitation for a copycat to try his luck. Trump has bravery confused with stupidity. Nothing new there, though reportedly, he wanted to see what was going on when he should've complied with the Secret Service's effort to remove him from the room. Only a child would linger around out of curiosity. Then again.......!

The first thing Dumb Donald should do is show gratitude to the Secret Service for doing their jobs, maybe offering a raise. But, of course, he won't.