Trump Calls White House Dinner Gunman Cole Allen a ‘Sick Man’ Who Hated Christians – Manifesto Reveals Target List and Motives

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Following the White House Correspondents’ Dinner attack on April 25, 2026, details about the suspect’s motives have emerged from a manifesto he shared with family members moments before the incident. The document, described by media outlets as a 1,052-word statement, outlines his rationale for targeting administration officials present at the event held at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C.

According to verified reports from NBC News and Fox News, the gunman was identified as Cole Tomas Allen, a 31-year-old resident of Torrance, California. Allen, who described himself in the manifesto as “half-black, half-white,” claimed his actions were driven by a sense of personal responsibility to hold government officials accountable for what he characterized as serious crimes.

In the manifesto, Allen wrote that he was “no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes,” explicitly naming Trump administration officials as targets while excluding FBI Director Kash Patel from his list. He stated these individuals were “prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest” in his intended sequence of engagement.

Allen claimed to have sought to minimize harm to non-targets by using buckshot ammunition, though he acknowledged he would “still travel through most everyone here to get to the targets if it were absolutely necessary,” arguing that attendees of the dinner were “complicit” by their presence.

President Donald Trump, who was in attendance at the dinner, later described Allen as a “sick man” who “hated Christians” during a CBS 60 Minutes interview. Trump rejected the characterization presented in the manifesto, stating accusers “should be ashamed of yourself, reading that — due to the fact that I’m not any of those things.”

Allen’s writings included a section labeled “rebuttals” where he addressed anticipated moral criticism of his violence. In this portion, he wrote: “Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. I’m not the person raped in a detention camp. I’m not the fisherman executed without trial. I’m not a schoolkid blown up or a child starved or a teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration.” These statements appeared to reference grievances including U.S. Military actions, immigration enforcement policies, and the Jeffrey Epstein case.

Investigators confirmed Allen had no prior criminal record and had legally purchased the firearms used in the attack. Reports indicate he was a Torrance-based tutor and mechanical engineering graduate from the California Institute of Technology, where he graduated in 2017. His background also included work as a game developer, having created a physics-based role-playing shooter game titled “First Law” during a summer fellowship at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2014.

Allen traveled from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. By train prior to the attack and checked into the Washington Hilton. Law enforcement officials stated he exchanged gunfire with security personnel before being subdued near the ballroom where the dinner was underway. His sister reportedly informed investigators that he had previously spoken of wanting to do “something” to fix the world.

The motive detailed in Allen’s manifesto reflects a broader pattern of political violence in the United States, coming amid what officials described as a turbulent period for the Trump administration, including ongoing efforts to negotiate an end to the conflict in Iran that began in February 2026. Authorities continue to process evidence related to the attack, with no further public updates on legal proceedings available as of this reporting.

For ongoing coverage of this developing story and verified updates on the investigation, readers are encouraged to follow official statements from the Department of Justice and Metropolitan Police Department.

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