Cole Tomas Allen, 31, the suspect in the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting who has been charged with attempted assassination, posted content on social media comparing President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler and urging criticism of Trump’s presidency and gun purchases.
A senior Justice Department official said Allen used the X handle “CForce3000,” now removed. CNN accessed about 4,000 of those posts via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. He also had a Blue Sky account, coldforce.bsky.social, with roughly 700 archived posts before it was taken down. The account contents and the “cold force” nickname align with Allen’s biographical details. In 2022 he posted short YouTube videos about the Nintendo game Super Smash Bros. before that account was removed.
In 2024 he reshared political tweets, including comparisons of Trump to Hitler and posts calling to nullify the 2016 election. He also reshared posts suggesting the earlier assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, was staged; one reposted tweet said Trump is “quite capable of having staged a fake assassination attempt on himself to trick the American public.”
On Blue Sky, Allen frequently criticized Trump and his administration beginning in February 2025, weeks after Trump’s second term began. An April 2025 post said, in part, “Everyone already knows trump is a f**king awful person in multiple dimensions and no one has done sh*t.” The account also encouraged gun possession and purchasing in December 2025.
Investigators continue to gather details about how the attempted assassination at the venue unfolded and are awaiting ballistic reports to determine whether a bullet from Allen struck a Secret Service agent’s bulletproof vest.
