1.) June 18, 2016: Michael Steven Sanford, a 20-year-old man and United Kingdom citizen from Dorking, Surrey, attempted to draw an officer's pistol during a Las Vegas rally to fire at Trump. Sanford was released after 11 months of imprisonment.[139]
2.) September 6, 2017: Gregory Lee Leingang, a 42-year-old man from Bismarck, North Dakota, attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump in Mandan, North Dakota, while Trump was visiting the state to rally public support. Leingang stole a forklift from an oil refinery and drove toward the presidential motorcade. After the forklift became jammed within the refinery, he fled on foot and was arrested by the pursuing police. While interviewed in detention, he admitted his intent to murder the president by flipping the presidential limousine with the stolen forklift, to the surprise of authorities, who suspected he was merely stealing the vehicle for personal use. The man pleaded guilty to the attempted attack, stealing the forklift, related charges, and several other unrelated crimes on the same day. Consequently, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison. His defense attorney noted a "serious psychiatric crisis".[140][141]
3.) November 2017: A man affiliated with Islamic State (IS), whose name was not revealed, was arrested by the Philippine National Police in Rizal Park, Manila, for reportedly planning to assassinate Trump during the diplomatic ASEAN Summit. In the week prior to the failed killing, the Secret Service already suspected a planned assault on the president because of the general presence of IS in the Philippines and because of threats by many people against the president on social media. Before the landing of Trump's airplane, the Secret Service discovered a credible terrorist threat from a man who threatened to kill the president on social media, quickly tracking down and arresting the terrorist. The government disclosed the incident to the public, after a year of silence, in a television documentary.[142][143]
4.) October 1, 2018: An envelope laced with ricin was sent to Trump before being discovered by mailing facilities. Several other letters were sent to the Pentagon, all of them labeled on the front with "Jack and the Missile Bean Stock Powder". Two days later on October 3, a 39-year-old Logan, Utah resident and Utah Navy veteran named William Clyde Allen III was arrested and charged with one count of mailing a threat against the president and five counts of mailing threatening communications to an officer or an employee of the United States. Allen pleaded not guilty to all charges.[144]
5.) September 2020: Letters containing the poison ricin and addressed to Donald Trump were intercepted by the Secret Service before delivery to the White House. Canadian woman Pascale Ferrier had sent the letters from Canada and was subsequently arrested while attempting to cross the Canadian border into the United States while possessing a firearm and ammunition. Ferrier was sentenced to 22 years in prison for the poisoned letters, which she had also sent to law enforcement officials in Texas. She described herself as a peaceful activist, claiming "The only regret I have is that it didn't work and that I couldn't stop Trump".[145]
6.) October 2020: It was reported that Barry Croft Jr., a Bear, Delaware man who was arrested for his involvement in the kidnapping plot against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, included Trump in a list of politicians he wanted to kill by hanging.[146] In December 2022, Croft was sentenced to 19 years in prison.[147]
7.) July 12, 2024: A Pakistani man named Asif Merchant, reported to be an agent of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was arrested for a plot to kill Trump at a rally.[148] Adrienne Watson, a spokesperson for the U.S. National Security Council, said that the plot was believed to be in revenge for the assassination of Qasem Soleimani.[149][150][151] Merchant paid $5,000 to federal agents posing as hired assassins and told them they would receive their instructions after he had left the country.[152] Merchant was arrested in Houston, Texas, on July 12, just before attempting to leave the United States.[153] On March 6, 2026, he was found guilty of murder-for-hire and terrorism-related charges related to the plot. He faces a potential life sentence.[154]
8.) July 19, 2024: 68-year-old Michael Martin Wiseman of Palm Beach, Florida was arrested for threatening to kill Trump alongside his running mate, JD Vance, on Facebook. Wiseman also threatened the lives of their families, particularly to sexually assault their daughters.[155] On September 19, Wiseman was found not guilty by reason of insanity and was opted into a pre-trial diversion program.[156]
9.) September 15, 2024: 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh, a roofer and Russo-Ukrainian war activist from Greensboro, North Carolina,[157] was spotted holding an SKS-style rifle on a private golf course belonging to Trump in West Palm Beach, Florida. After 12 hours of hiding in shrubbery, Routh had his weapon pointed through the fence line of the golf course, 300–500 yards away from Trump. A Secret Service agent noticed this and fired four rounds towards Routh, who then dropped his weapon and fled the scene. After a short police chase, he was stopped and detained without resistance.[158][159] He was indicted on a total of 5 federal counts and 3 state counts, all of which he pleaded not guilty to. On September 23, 2025, he was found guilty on all federal counts. On February 4, 2026, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.[160][161][162] Two conspirators who helped Routh obtain the rifle were also later arrested and charged.[163][164][165]
10.) September 2024: According to a criminal complaint filed by the Department of Justice, an Iranian official had ordered agents in the US to formulate a plan to kill Trump before the election. The agents, identified as 51-year-old Farjad Shakeri of Iran, 49-year-old Carlisle Rivera of Brooklyn, New York, and 36-year-old Jonathon Loadholt of Staten Island, New York were charged with murder-for-hire, conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, and money laundering conspiracy. Shakeri was additionally charged with providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization, conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, and conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and sanctions against the Government of Iran.[166]
11.) February 11, 2025: 17-year-old Nikita Casap, a Moldova native and a follower of the Order of Nine Angles, shot and killed his mother, 35-year-old Tatiana Casap, and his stepfather, 51-year-old Donald Mayer in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Casap was accused of living with their corpses for two weeks. He was arrested on February 28 after running a stop sign while driving his stepfather's car in WaKeeney, Kansas, 800 miles away from his Wisconsin home. The car contained his stepfather's Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum revolver, the victims' driver's licenses and spent shell casings. Casap had planned on fleeing the country and living in exile in Ukraine.[167][168] He was also accused of plotting to assassinate President Trump in order to "instigate a race war and sow chaos", and allegedly killed his parents in order to acquire their money to fund the plot.[169] On January 8, 2026, Casap pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree intentional homicide.[167] On March 5, 2026, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.[170]
12.) April 11, 2025: 32-year-old Shawn Monper was arrested by the FBI for posting multiple threats to assassinate Donald Trump on social media. Since Trump took office in 2025, Monper had bought several guns and ammunition, preparing to commit a mass shooting. Monper was living in Butler, Pennsylvania at the time, the city where Trump's Pennsylvania assassination attempt took place in 2024.[171] On May 2, Monper was charged with 4 counts of threatening to murder a U.S official to impede their official duties.[172]
13.) May 1, 2025: 35-year-old Richard James Spring of Grand Rapids, Michigan was arrested after he threatened on social media a few months earlier to rape someone in front of Trump before shooting him in the head. On June 12, Spring pleaded guilty to one count of threatening to kill and injure the president, and on October 20, he was sentenced to 18 months in prison and to pay a $2,000 fine. Additionally, he was required to undergo mental health and anger management counseling, as well as substance abuse programming while in prison.[173][174]
14.) June 11, 2025: 67-year-old James Donald Vance Jr. of Grand Rapids, Michigan was arrested for threatening to kill Donald Trump, JD Vance, Elon Musk, and Donald Trump Jr. through the social media platform Bluesky. In one post, he claimed he did not care whether he was shot by the Secret Service or spend the rest of his life in prison for doing so. Four months later on November 17, he was convicted and sentenced to two years in prison.[175][176]
15.) August 2025: Nathalie Rose Jones, a 50-year-old mentally ill woman from Lafayette, Indiana, posted on social media that she intended to kidnap and disembowel Trump with Liz Cheney there to witness it, while referencing the 1981 science fiction novel The Affirmation. She was arrested and charged with making violent threats against Trump. Jones claimed she was motivated to kill Trump due to her disagreement with Trump's COVID-19 policies during his first term.[177][178]
16.) February 22, 2026: Austin Tucker Martin, a 21-year-old man from Moore County, North Carolina (either Carthage or Cameron), snuck past security at Mar-a-Lago, a residence of President Trump, armed with a 12-gauge Winchester SXP Defender pump-action shotgun and gasoline. He was shot and killed by Secret Service agents shortly after entering the property.[179][180][181]
17.) April 25, 2026: A shooting took place at the Washington Hilton Hotel during the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner. The gunman, identified as 31-year-old Cole Thomas Allen,[182] fired up to eight shots inside the lobby. Trump and those in the banquet hall were all immediately evacuated, and the perpetrator taken into custody.[183] The day after the shooting, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced that government officials including President Trump were believed to have been targeted.[184]
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