ZACHARY LEVI RECALLS TERRIFYING CHAOS AS GUNFIRE SENT EVERYONE DIVING FOR COVER CQ😱

Zachary Levi is detailing the scene that unfolded during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting.

The Shazam actor, 45, spoke with USA Today in the immediate aftermath of the incident, which occurred at the Washington Hilton ballroom in Washington, D.C., on Saturday evening.

“We were sitting at the table and there was some loud banging that definitely caught my attention,” Levi told the outlet. “In the back of my head, I thought, jokingly thinking, ‘Oh, that kind of sounds like gunshots.’”

The Tangled star cautioned in the moments after the shooting that it hadn’t been confirmed that the sounds he’d heard had been gunfire, noting that it could’ve been tables falling or things being dropped in the hallway. Regardless, the sound caught everyone’s attention.

“The next thing we saw, everybody started to turn and drop. There was commotion,” Levi said. “Everybody started to kind of hide under tables, and the Secret Service were pouring in and trying to get to anyone of import — anyone in the administration, any legislators, including the president — they were getting them all out of there as quickly as they could.”

The situation then “seemed to calm down,” Levi recalled.

“Everyone started popping up from the tables. We didn’t know what was going on,” he continued. “And we’ve just recently been told that they are going to continue with the dinner with some updates soon.”

Levi expressed his concern over the decision to resume the dinner after the incident.

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“I don’t know… it’s very confusing because if it was an actual active live shooting, then I don’t know why we would necessarily be continuing with the dinner, but maybe it wasn’t?” he said. “Or maybe it’s all very contained and everything’s very safe and so, that’s all I got.”

The dinner did not resume after the shooting. An alleged shooter, 31-year-old Cole Allen, was subsequently taken into custody.

Trump was later asked about an alleged manifesto that Allen sent to family members in a 60 Minutes interview on Sunday, including a segment in which he purportedly wrote: “I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.”

“I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would, because you’re horrible people,” Trump snapped at interviewer Norah O’Donnell. “He did write that. I’m not a rapist, I didn’t rape anybody.”

When O’Donnell noted that Allen did not mention Trump by name, the president interjected: “Excuse me. I’m not a pedophile. You read that crap from some sick person. I get associated with stuff that has nothing to do with me. I was totally exonerated.”