Assassination threats against Trump rattle Washington, D.C.
Trump has already had his life flash before his eyes twice. Now it’s happening again.
And an assassination threat against Trump rattled Washington, D.C.
Florida law enforcement recently swooped in to apprehend a man accused of unleashing menacing social media threats against President Donald Trump, signaling a troubling uptick in such incidents.
Glen DeCicco now faces charges for making written threats to k*ll, as detailed in a Jupiter Police Department release, with his arrest unfolding smoothly and without resistance.
The operation was a collaborative effort between local police and the U.S. Secret Service, who zeroed in on DeCicco after dissecting his online posts targeting Trump.
On his Facebook, one post stood out with the alarming caption “a**-a**-inate!” nestled among rants about Trump’s tariffs and casual cheers for the University of Connecticut during March Madness.
“The investigation began after JPD was alerted to a concerning Facebook post. Detectives reviewed DeCicco’s social media activity and confirmed that he had made a written threat directed at the President,” the JPD stated, highlighting the seriousness of their probe.
This arrest is just the latest ripple in a wave of threats crashing across Florida, a state that’s become a hotspot for aggression toward the 45th president.
The trend kicked into high gear after Ryan Wesley Routh’s audacious attempt to confront Trump at his Mar-a-Lago golf course in September, armed and dangerous while the then-GOP nominee played a round.
Earlier this year, in January, a West Palm Beach woman landed in hot water for violent threats against Trump on Facebook.
And in July—coinciding with Thomas Matthew Crooks’ failed assassination attempt on Trump at a Pennsylvania rally—Jupiter Police nabbed another suspect for threatening both Trump and JD Vance online.
This surge aligns with a chilling phenomenon spotlighted in a bombshell study from the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), shared exclusively with Fox News Digital.
The report reveals an “assassination culture” festering on the Left, with over half of left-leaning Americans surveyed—55%—saying k*lling Trump would be at least “somewhat justified.”
This normalization of violent rhetoric, accelerating in recent months, is spilling from online echo chambers into real-world actions.
“What was formerly taboo culturally has become acceptable,” lead author Joel Finkelstein told Fox News Digital, pointing to a “clear shift—glorification, increased attempts and changing norms” fueled by ideological radicalism and a sense of powerlessness.
The study ties this trend to platforms like BlueSky, where posts about Trump and others as “legitimate targets” have spiked, racking up over 200,000 posts and 2 million engagements since late 2024.
Florida’s string of arrests reflects this escalation, where Trump’s provocative persona—“powerful, rich, and provocative,” as Finkelstein put it—makes him a prime target.
From Routh’s golf course ambush to DeCicco’s social media outburst, the state’s incidents mirror the NCRI’s warning: what starts as memes and radical chatter is morphing into tangible threats, keeping authorities on high alert as this “assassination culture” takes root.
