The suspect of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting had shared social media posts comparing US President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler on his social media accounts. Cole Tomas Allen, the 31-year-old who appeared in court on charges of attempted assassination, had encouraged others to be critical of Trump’s presidency and had asked them to purchase guns.
A senior Justice Department official said that the Allen used the X account handle ‘CForce3000′. The account has now been taken down. However, about 4,000 posts on it were accessed by CNN through the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The suspect also had a Blue Sky account ‘coldforce.bsky.social’ from which 700 posts were archived before being taken down. The account’s contents and the use of the nickname ‘cold force’ seem consistent with the biographical details of Allen.
In 2022, he had also posted short videos on YouTube about the Nintendo game Super Smash Bros. before the account was taken down.
In 2024, he re-shared tweets containing political content from other users. He had also reposted tweets that compared Trump to Hitler and retweeted posts advocating for nullifying the 2016 election results.
Allen had also re-shared posts that speculated that the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania,was staged.
One tweet he re-shared said Trump is “quite capable of having staged a fake assassination attempt on himself to trick the American public.”
On his blue sky account, the suspect frequently criticised Trump and his administration’s policies starting from February 2025, a few weeks after Trump began his second term.
“Everyone already knows trump is a f**king awful person in multiple dimensions and no one has done sh*t,” the account wrote in April 2025.
The account also advocated for gun possession and purchasing in December of 2025.
Investigators say that they are still gathering details of how the attempted assassination at the venue took place.
Law enforcement is also waiting for ballistic reports to determine whether it was Allen’s bullet that hit a Secret Service agent’s bulletproof vest.
Shooting suspect Cole Allen shared social media posts saying Trump staged previous assassination attempt
