On April 25th, 2026, a man named Cole Tomas Allen, armed with a shotgun, attempted to breach security at the correspondents’ dinner ballroom and shoot top administrative officials.
A week before the shooting, Allen traveled across the country from Torrance, CA, to his reserved room at Washington Hilton in D.C, a day before the dinner. The next day, he tried to rush past the secret service checkpoint before the ballroom and exchanged shots with the guards before being captured.
Before the shooting, Allen released a thousand-word essay apologizing to those close to him for abusing their trust, detailing his grievances with the Trump administration, and specifying his targets as members of the administration
“They [administrative officials] are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest,” Allen wrote in his manifesto.
Allen ends his manifesto by referring to himself as “ColdForce” and a “friendly federal assassin.” ColdForce has since been revealed to be Allen’s social media username by the FBI.
According to the Department of Justice, Allen is now being charged with “one count of attempting to assassinate the President of the United States, transportation of a firearm & ammunition in interstate commerce with intent to commit a felony, and discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence.”
“That was really a first line of defense, and they [Secret Service] got him [Cole Allen], and they acted really incredibly,” Trump said in a news conference following the shooting.
The Tiger Times 
Posted on May 22, 2026 by thetigertimes
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