By Douglas V. Gibbs
The Democrats, and establishment Republicans, have hated Donald J. Trump since the moment he decided to enter politics, and “drain the swamp.” He’s an outsider they can’t control, they can’t cancel, and someone who knows their behind-the-curtain secrets as he seeks to dismantle their system of power and corruption. It’s an unforgivable sin, in their eyes, and for them it’s worth killing over.
Political violence is on the rise because the Democrats have called for it, and the Deep State is fueling it. When they began calling Donald Trump a fascist, dictator and wanna-be-king that must be stopped, what did they think was going to happen? Thanks to their rhetoric, and their rhetorical urging, characters like Cole Tomas Allen have risen to the surface like pond-scum.
Cole Tomas Allen is a 31 year-old Southern California man who was apprehended as the suspect in the White House Correspondents Association Dinner shooting on April 25, 2026 who was a far leftist that not only recently attended a “No Kings” protest, but his social media accounts are filled with anti-Trump and anti-Christian rhetoric. According to the New London Police Department in Connecticut, Allen sent a manifesto to family members, and his sister confirmed the gunman’s radical statements and firearm purchases. Allen was a member of a group called “The Wide Awakes” that is a far left activist group which promotes abortion and anti-ICE propaganda. And, he was a Kamala Harris donor.
Allen, after he was apprehended, told police he was going after “administration officials” at the event being held at the Washington Hilton hotel in Washington, DC. The gunman ran into the event area attempting to breach his way in and take out whoever he could, aiming to carry out a “national tragedy” while all eyes were on the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. He underestimated the security personnel on site, and was stopped at first contact. The attack by Allen began shortly after 8:30 pm, about 20 minutes after President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump first sat down at the dais. Approximately 2,500 people (Fox News reported about 3,000) were in attendance, including the Vice President, many Trump cabinet members, and journalists.
The shooter “took a cross-country train” from the Los Angeles area, traveling through Chicago, and then to Washington DC. Fox News host Shannon Bream suggested he took the train to “sidestep tracking methods and security procedures.”
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said although the Justice Department didn’t yet know if Allen was in possession of the firearms while in transit – he conceded speculatively “that could be another reason why he traveled by train, because he had those firearms with him.”
Ironically, as the shooter was preparing for his attack, CNN was spewing the kind of rhetoric that encourages political violence. S.E. Cupp, the former conservative who is now about as infected with Trump Derangement Syndrome as they get, and who recently compared President Trump’s immigration strategies with ICE to North Korean communism, said on the air just before the gunman launched his attack at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, “The Correspondents’ Association was trying to sort of mend some fences with a guy who wants us dead, figuratively. Figuratively, he wants journalism dead. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.”
Cupp made the remarks about 20 minutes prior to the reported shooting during a panel discussion with CNN anchors John Berman and Laura Coates as the network previewed Trump’s arrival. Cupp said she was disappointed by how the evening had been arranged and the decision to feature Trump as the central speaker.
Libs of TikTok posted the potential shooter’s ideology on X and took a shot at the lamestream media, “Cole Allen wrote this in his manifesto: “’I am no longer willing to permit a ped*phile, rap*st, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.’ This is what happens when the media knowingly falsely call Trump a r*pist pedo. Media incited this. They knew exactly what they were doing.”
Mark Thiessen posted, “In his fake White House correspondents speech @JimmyKimmelLive actually joked about Trump’s assassination — just before a real assassin showed up at the real dinner.”
Scott Jennings posted, “I’ve been on the air live twice now when someone has tried to kill the President. I worry about President Trump every day. I worry about these events. The fact that DHS has been unfunded for 70 days in this environment is outrageous. Every American should be outraged by it.”
After the news of the attempted mass shooting by Cole Tomas Allen hit the airwaves, the despicable lefties reminded us exactly who they are and how sick they are.
Actress Mia Farrow decided it’s all a conspiracy, and that the attack was part of an effort by President Donald Trump to “raise his approval ratings.” Her followers on the leftist social media platform Bluesky agreed with her sentiment, calling it a false flag. This was not Farrow’s first time suggesting an anti-Trump conspiracy. In February she suggested Trump “swapped Ghislane for a similar but not identical looking British woman.”
Other leftists on Bluesky also insist Allen’s attack was a “false flag.” They posted things like “Staged. Staged. Staged” and “The Epstein Files were not harmed in tonight’s staged theatrical event,” and “staged assassination attempts and all other forms of distraction from the Epstein files will continue until morale improves,” and “Trump is still going to give his speech. You’re going to tell me this wasn’t staged?” and “Trump claims the shooting at the WHCA is WHY WE NEED THE BALLROOM AT THE WHITE HOUSE??????? Yeah definitely staged.” and “Does anyone really care that Trump ‘staged’ another false flag attack on his pathetic life…Ummm…anyone?! Didn’t think so,” and “Looked staged to me, propagandist grifter Erika Kirk’s fake crying was the first clue alongside creepy racist scumbag JD Vance being evacuated first.”
On X a user “Red Pill USA” suggested the alleged false flag was to encourage support for building the White House Ballroom, which President Trump has indicated would provide more security for these kinds of events.
In the left-stream media ridiculous reports downplaying the severity of the situation were not uncommon, calling what is being considered another assassination attempt against President Trump an “incident,” or using headlines about Trump being “removed from the room at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner” without even mentioning the armed attack. CNN reported the gunshots as “LOUD SOUNDS,” and the Washington Post reported the shots as “loud noises.” Reuters also called the shots fired “loud noise.” CNN later reported, with Google News continuing to push the headline, “possible shots fired.”
I get it. In the heat of the moment attendees didn’t know what the noise was, and probably did everything they could to convince themselves it was not gunshots. An active shooting is something they report about, not something they wish to be a victim of. However, the mainstream journalists did have the presence of mind to grab as much of the booze as they could on the way out. One photographer had a bourbon neat in hand. Bourbon. Wine. Hey, it’s free booze. And after crying about the potential shooting, and before probably whining the day after, they still made sure they got in line for the after-party.
The Lincoln Project’s TDS sufferer Steve Schmidt said it’s Trump’s own fault that people have been trying to kill him.
And then there’s the Wisconsin brewery gushing over the assassination attempt, before considering it might be “another” “faked…assassination.” By the way, the owner of that brewery is a Democrat running for office.
Meanwhile, Code Pink was outside the dinner cheering for an assassination…
Shockingly, CNN’s Brian Stelter was complimentary of the President, and appreciative that President Trump didn’t blame the media for the attack – even though Trump had every right to partially blame the media considering the rhetoric we’ve been hearing from them, and leftist politicians, ever since Donald Trump appeared on the political scene.
Kari Lake ripped into the leftist progressives. “I walked out right next to Jake Tapper & looked him in the eye. ‘How dare you? You’ve caused so much division in this country with your lies. I’m done calling it gaslighting — you’ve LIED to the American people.’ These reporters have spent a decade spreading absolute lies about President Trump. They share some of the blame for what happened tonight. As a mother, I’m exhausted by it. I couldn’t stay silent and walk out pretending someone like Jake Tapper is one of the good guys.”
In the wake of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting, the Department of Justice is pushing for President Trump’s White House ballroom to be built as quickly as possible. The lawsuit is baseless, anyway. Remember, not a single taxpayer dollar is going into the Ballroom Project. President Trump, and some donors, are funding the ballroom themselves as a gift to America and future generations. Any White House renovations in the past have never needed any approval from Congress, except for the funding to be appropriated – and in this case there is no appropriation needed because no taxpayer funds are being used. The lawsuit against its construction, as with everything else, is based on pure hatred of President Trump – the very same hatred that has been fueling the political violence against him, his allies, and his supporters. And the Grand Ballroom makes sense, not only to move White House events inside for comfort, but for the very kind of security that was in place that stopped the attacker at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
Trump Derangement Syndrome has spread so deeply into the dark blue leftist corners of America so deeply, however, I am not sure if the left will ever back down, and I fear more political violence is on the horizon. I hope I’m wrong, but the signs all point in a very bad direction.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
