Officials say a suspect approached a checkpoint near the building and opened fire, and that a bystander was wounded.

A suspect who shot at a White House checkpoint was killed in an exchange of fire with Secret Service agents on Saturday evening, officials have confirmed.

The BBC’s US media partner CBS has named the suspect as Nasire Best, a 21-year-old man who was known to the protection agency and had a documented history of mental health conditions.

  • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
    40·
    1 month ago

    This guy just keeps getting shot at! I wonder if it’s a result of his constantly terrible governing, his incredible narcissism, the fact that the only thing he can output is suffering, or even that his feelings of joy themselves are fraudulent.

    Maybe all four?

  • gh0stb4tz@lemmy.world
    19·
    1 month ago

    Is Trump in the running for most attempts on a president’s life yet? I feel like the number is getting up there.

    • MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works
      18·
      1 month ago

      I guess there have been 8 trump assassination attempts total.

      So far, there have been 7 school shootings in 2026 alone.

      There have been over 130 mass shootings in the US so far this year.

      The fascist child rapist is just experiencing what America has become. I’d rather a cheeseburger take him out instead of violence, but he’s gonna be a martyr either way. Maga chuds are gonna get really fucking weird about his death. Just you wait. He’ll be their patron saint.

    • Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works
      9·
      1 month ago

      Obama had 11 attempts.

      This one would make for 4 supposed attempts on the pedophile felon traitor’s worthless life.

      Although, quite curiously this regime has already stopped manufacturing their brainless hysteria about the previous ones.

      Other than of course their expected droolingly stupid lies designed to further the ever ballooning illegal construction theft of the bunker to hide mr. cadet bone spurs mcdraft-dodging little coward bitch.

  • Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
    121·
    1 month ago

    Another staged event for the sick lazy pedo using the pathetic gun laws and the piss poor healthcare system in the USA. Best should be in a hospital and not roaming the streets with a firearm.

    • Mulligrubs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      These events have become rather common, I can think of at least five since Trump’s term began.

      They get less press than Trump posting a pooping meme… so, what’s the motivation for the staging? A paragraph at HuffPo?

      • Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 month ago

        An attempt to win sympathy and enforce more draconian laws. Altona Bloody Sunday was conducted by the Nazis in 1932.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
    5·
    1 month ago

    Watching the coverage, apparently someone pulled a gun close to the White House and got taken down by Secret Service.

    One bystander was also injured, but it’s unclear if it was by the perpetrator or the Secret Service.

    • edible_funk@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      1 month ago

      Based on the quote from the SS, I’m guessing they shot the bystander. If they were shot by the suspect then they’d say so, this is how cops talk to the media when they fuck up to frame the conversation.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    1 month ago

    Aw hell no. There is no way that Pumpkinhead should be martyred.

    Assuming this was a real threat, they are definitely not helping in any way. Ideally, he’s removed from office and the Democrats win the midterms. Second best is having him serve out his term as a cucked lame duck after the midterms. If he is incapacitated due to his dementia or gets a hamburger from heaven that’s a far distant third best outcome. Still not great on that last one, since you just know the right will try to rehab the image of the Pumpkinhead.