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White House Gets a Surprise Guest After Child Slips Through Fence

Footage posted to social media shows a child breaking through security fencing.

A child was scooped up by Secret Service agents on Wednesday after it was seen slipping through the White House fence and walking along the building’s lawn. Footage posted to social media and subsequently reshared by Secret Service spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi shows the child, wearing a blue hoodie and long black sweatpants, being picked up by an officer, who walks the child a short distance before handing him to another Secret Service officer. Guglielmi said the trespasser, whose age has not been revealed, wrangled their way through the fence on the North Lawn just after 6:30 p.m., shortly after president Donald Trump announced a plan on tariffs for U.S. auto imports from the Oval Office. “Officers quickly reunited the child with their parents without incident,” Guglielmi said in a social media post. According to the Associated Press, this isn’t the first time a child has squeezed through the gates. A child’s parents were questioned in 2023 after a similar incident on the North Lawn.