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Lloyd Blankfein finds the bright side in shooting at press dinner: 'No one was killed, and ended early'

Business Insider·Tracy Connor·6 months ago
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Lloyd Blankfein was at the White House Correspondents' Dinner when shots rang out. Bloomberg/Getty Images

Lloyd Blankfein, senior chairman of Goldman Sachs, was at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

The 71-year-old seems to be unrattled by the shooting that took place during the event.

"On the positive side — was exciting, no one was killed, and ended early," he wrote on X.

Apparently, nothing rattles Lloyd Blankfein , the senior chairman of Goldman Sachs — not even a shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner .

The 71-year-old billionaire, who was raised in the public housing projects of Brooklyn's East New York before he went to Harvard, reportedly had a nonchalant reaction to the chaos unfolding around him Saturday.

CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss wrote in a post on X that while writer and podcaster Coleman Hughes was crouched under a table, Blankfein piped up, "Are you going to finish that salad?"

things I never thought I’d hear while crouching under a table at an active shooter…

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