Tighter security in place for White House Correspondents Dinner 2.0

President Trump’s return to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner next week after an April assassination attempt will come with a dramatically tightened security operation — including digital tickets, a smaller venue and fewer opportunities for uninvited guests to slip inside.The rescheduled July 24 event at the Waldorf Astoria will not only forgo traditional printed passes for digital ones, but the event will no longer feature the sprawling cocktail receptions where virtually anyone could blend into the crowd.The Waldorf ballroom holds roughly 1,000 guests — less than a quarter of the Washington Hilton’s capacity — making it easier for the Secret Service and other security to vet attendees.“We have confidence in the security plan for this event, and we’ve secured that site before,” Secret Service spokesman Tom Lynch told The Post.The heightened precautions come after alleged gunman Cole Thomas Allen, a Washington Hilton hotel guest during the April 25 confab, was able to enter near the ballroom before authorities say he attempted to assassinate the president.Allen made a three-night reservation from April 24 to April 26 at the Hilton, according to the US Attorney’s Office for DC.

He traveled by train from Los Angeles, and ran through a security checkpoint armed with a 12-gauge pump action shotgun and .38 caliber pistol.Horrified guests crouched under their dinner tables for protection.In just one of the security failures at the April dinner, a police dog appears to have gotten a whiff of the would-be assassin — only to be pulled away seconds before Allen sprang into action.The threat to Trump, outlined in Allen’s bizarre manifesto, is far from gone.The president said on his recent trip to Turkey that he was No.

1 on Iran’s kill list.And he told The Post he has “left instructions” in the event that they are successful.But authorities are confident the massive security envelope in place for the redo dinner will hold.A security firm h...