President Donald Trump has accepted an invitation to attend the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Dinner on July 24, praising organizers for moving forward with the event after a would-be assassin disrupted the original gathering in April.

Trump said the decision to hold the dinner was “a sign of Strength and Fortitude” following the shooting incident that forced organizers to postpone the annual event.

“This announcement is a very good thing in that we cannot allow Lunatics to change our way of life, or even its scheduling,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“I was asked to be there, and speak, by Weijia Jiang, President of The White House Correspondents’ Association, and have accepted,” he continued. “I don’t know whether or not I will give the same rather nasty statements, at least as it concerns certain people, but we will soon find out.”

“In any event,” the president added, “it will be a ‘HOT’ ticket! Interestingly, the location will be The Waldorf Astoria, on Pennsylvania Avenue, a Building and Ballroom that I built.”

The black-tie event will be held in the Waldorf Astoria’s Presidential Ballroom, a venue that originally operated as a Trump hotel before being sold in 2022. Organizers said guests who purchased tickets for the original event will not be charged again.

The ballroom seats about 1,300 people, making it substantially smaller than the roughly 2,500-person dinner that had been planned at the Washington Hilton.

The correspondents’ dinner had been scheduled for April 25 but was postponed after authorities say Cole Tomas Allen rushed a security checkpoint with a rifle and shot a Secret Service agent in a bulletproof vest.

According to authorities, Allen later admitted in a manifesto that he intended to kill Trump and as many Cabinet officials as possible. He is awaiting trial.

In an email to members of the White House Correspondents’ Association, President Weijia Jiang said the organization would not allow the attack to overshadow its mission.

“The White House Correspondents’ Dinner has served as a celebration of a free press and the vital role of journalism in our democracy for over a century,” Jiang wrote, according to the New York Post.

“When gunfire interrupted this year’s event, it further clarified the WHCA’s mission to advocate for the freedoms that are protected in the First Amendment,” she said. “We will not allow an act of violence to have the last word, especially during a year when we are reflecting on the 250th anniversary of America and everything we stand for.”

Jiang said the rescheduled event will be “a more intimate gathering” and will feature “significantly enhanced safety measures and new access procedures.”

The annual dinner will also reportedly include scholarship presentations and journalism awards.