
So a 31-year-old Caltech-educated California tutor named Cole Tomas Allen rolled up to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night with a shotgun, a handgun, and a bag full of knives — because he wanted to assassinate members of the Trump administration. He called himself a “Friendly Federal Assassin” in his manifesto. Friendly! The man brought a small arsenal to a black-tie dinner and he wants you to know he’s *friendly* about it.
This is what a $250,000 education at the California Institute of Technology produces now, folks. A guy who thinks “friendly” and “federal assassin” belong in the same sentence. We are getting tremendous value out of our nation’s universities.
But here’s what should genuinely disturb every American. If you put Cole Allen’s profile next to Ryan Routh’s — the lunatic who tried to snipe President Trump at his golf course in September 2024 — you’d think you were reading the same rap sheet. Ukraine obsession? Check. Democratic donations? Check. Manifesto full of unhinged anti-Trump rhetoric ripped straight from Rachel Maddow’s teleprompter? Check and check.
Allen’s Bluesky bio literally read: “I’m a random Californian guy with posts about American politics, support for Ukraine, and observations of small creatures.” Observations of small creatures. That’s what passes for a personality on the left-wing internet now — posting about bugs and fantasizing about political violence. He spent his days sharing Ukrainian military fundraisers, posting conspiracy theories about Trump working for Putin, and apparently deciding that murder was a reasonable next step.
Routh? Same playlist, different DJ. That maniac wrote — in all caps, naturally — “I AM WILLING TO FLY TO KRAKOW AND GO TO THE BORDER OF UKRAINE TO VOLUNTEER AND FIGHT AND DIE.” Ukraine’s foreign legion actually had to put out a statement disavowing the guy and calling his ideas “delusional.” When the Ukrainian military thinks you’re too crazy to hand a rifle to, you might want to take a step back and reevaluate your life choices.
Both men donated to Democrats. Allen dropped $25 to ActBlue earmarked for Kamala Harris — listed his occupation as “teacher” on the donation form, which is just *chef’s kiss* — and Routh had a history of Democratic donations going back years. Both consumed the same media diet. Both marinated in the same fever swamp where Trump isn’t just a president you disagree with — he’s a “pedophile, rapist, and traitor” who must be stopped by any means necessary. Those are Allen’s words from his manifesto, by the way. But we’ve all seen that exact sentence in a thousand blue-check Twitter threads.
And that’s the part nobody in corporate media wants to touch with a ten-foot pole.
These aren’t lone wolves. This is a pattern. When you spend four years telling people that the sitting president is literally Hitler — that he’s running concentration camps, that he’s a Russian agent, that he’s an existential threat to democracy itself — some percentage of your audience is going to take you at your word. Cole Allen took them at their word. Ryan Routh took them at their word. Thomas Crooks, who actually put a bullet through Trump’s ear in Butler, Pennsylvania, took them at their word.
Allen’s manifesto had an “objection and rebuttal” section where he argued with himself about whether political assassination was morally justified. He wrote: “What my representatives do reflects on me, and I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.” That’s not the language of a uniquely deranged individual. That’s the language of someone who watched too much MSNBC and decided to do something about it.
The man was “Teacher of the Month” at his tutoring company in December 2024. Teacher of the Month! He was helping kids prep for the SATs while simultaneously building a worldview where storming a dinner full of 2,500 people with firearms was a heroic act. His LinkedIn shows a mechanical engineering degree from Caltech and a master’s in computer science from Cal State Dominguez Hills. This wasn’t some basement-dwelling dropout. This was an educated professional who was radicalized by mainstream Democratic talking points.
He fired between five and eight rounds before the Secret Service took him down. One agent got hit but survived thanks to a ballistic vest. President Trump and every cabinet member in attendance were evacuated. Two thousand guests ran for their lives at a dinner party.
And what’s the media’s response? The same thing it was after Routh. The same thing it was after the guy in Butler. “We must not politicize this tragedy.” Oh, *now* we’re not politicizing shootings? When it’s a conservative with a rifle they can barely wait for the bodies to cool before demanding gun bans. When it’s a Democratic donor with a manifesto full of MSNBC talking points, suddenly context doesn’t matter and we need to focus on “mental health.”
We see you. We all see you.
Three assassination attempts on one president in less than two years. Every single attacker steeped in the same leftist propaganda. Every single one a product of the same media machine that tells 80 million Americans every single night that their president is a fascist dictator who must be stopped. At some point, the people running that machine have to answer for what they’ve built.
But they won’t. They’ll change the subject to gun control by Tuesday. Count on it.


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