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A clueless NBC reporter is being mocked on social media for her lackadaisical response to a crazed gunman opening fire outside the White House on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

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NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent Julie Tsirkin was taping a live segment on the White House lawn when the gunshots rang out \u2014 with her wearing a look of mild confusion as the distant bangs echoed.<\/p>\n

She briefly turns toward the direction of the racket before looking at someone off-camera and asking, \u201cWhat is that?\u201d<\/p>\n

A male voice can be heard saying, \u201cSounds like fireworks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tsirkin then turns to face the White House and even takes a step in the direction of the source of the gunfire.<\/p>\n

She then looks into the camera and still appears confused but makes no attempt to get out of harm\u2019s way.<\/p>\n

In a segment broadcast on the network later that night in which she showed the viral clip, Tsirkin said she and the crew heard \u201c20 to 30\u201d gunshots.<\/p>\n

\u201cI ended up running after that happened. I saw a Secret Service agent come out of the security booth, guns drawn, telling all of us, the few of us who were out there, to run inside the press briefing room,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Many viewers ridiculed her for her muted initial response to the danger.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis reporter has the survival instincts of a lemming,\u201d an X user wrote in a post sharing the clip, which has been viewed nearly 2 million times.<\/p>\n

Anothe person said, \u201cZero common sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some people contrasted Tsirkin\u2019s reaction with a clip of ABC News reporter Selina Wang, who was also on camera during the shooting \u2014 although her face immediately registered terror as she heard the gunfire and ducked for cover right away.<\/p>\n

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A small contingent of posters defended Tsirkin rather than joining on the dogpile.<\/p>\n

\u201cI totally understand her reactions,\u201d an X sympathizer wrote. \u201cI didn\u2019t grow up around gunshots and was in my 30\u2019s before I heard a gun fight. If you\u2019ve never heard them before, it\u2019s not immediately assumed to be gun fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

The incident was quickly made into a meme in which Tsirkin\u2019s White House backdrop is replaced with superimposed video of progressively more dangerous scenarios, including soldiers engaged in all-out war, a mushroom cloud rising in the distance and even former President Joe Biden sniffing her hair from behind.<\/p>\n

Tsirkin showed she had a sense of humor about her brush with viral fame, owning it with a post on X showing her seated at a desk with one of the memes on her computer screen in the background.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m glad I could take one for the team, with [\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d] on summer break,\u201d she quipped. \u201cThanks for the memes, internet! Hope you\u2019ll stick around for the reporting.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The gunman, Nasire Best, 21, fired several shots at a White House checkpoint around 6:10 p.m. Saturday after being spotted pacing in a strange manner up and down 17th Street NW, sources told The Post. <\/p>\n

The deranged man, who sources said was known to the Secret Service and believed he was Jesus Christ, was killed in a hail of bullets when federal officers returned fire.<\/p>\n

At least one bystander was struck and seriously wounded, sources said.<\/p>\n

President Trump later said on Truth Social that Best had a \u201cpossible obsession\u201d with the White House.<\/p>\n

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