It is no longer rare to hear threats against President Donald J. Trump — but what is rare is the sheer brazenness of those who make them.

On Saturday, federal authorities arrested Nathalie Rose Jones, a 50-year-old woman from Lafayette, Indiana, after she allegedly traveled from New York to Washington, D.C. with the intent to “eliminate” President Trump.

According to the New York Post, Jones openly broadcasted her intentions on social media, tagging federal agencies in her rambling posts. U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said Jones made it clear she wanted President Trump “eliminated” if the opportunity arose.

In one shocking Facebook post on August 6, Jones declared:

“I am willing to sacrificially kill this POTUS by disemboweling him and cutting out his trachea with Liz Cheney and all The Affirmation present.”

The post, bizarrely directed at the FBI, accused the Trump administration of “terrorism on the American People” and even offered sexual favors to federal agents if they would “coordinate this arrest” of the sitting president.

Jones doubled down in another post last Thursday, directly tagging Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and demanding that he “please arrange the arrest and removal ceremony of POTUS Trump as a terrorist on the American People from 10-2pm at the White House on Saturday, August 16th, 2025.”

By that point, the Secret Service had already been monitoring her activity since August 2. During a voluntary interview the day before her arrest, Jones admitted that she would carry out her mission of killing Trump with a “bladed object” if given the chance, citing her desire to “avenge all the lives lost during the COVID-19 pandemic.”

She was arrested Saturday during a protest near the White House. Even then, during a subsequent interrogation, she attempted to walk back her threats, insisting she had no “present desire to harm” the president.

Prosecutors weren’t buying it.

“Threatening the life of the president is one of the most serious crimes and one that will be met with swift and unwavering prosecution,” Pirro said in a statement. “Make no mistake — justice will be served.”

Jones now faces federal charges for making threats against the president, including “threatening to take the life of, kidnap, or inflict bodily harm upon the president of the United States, and transmitting in interstate commerce communications containing threats to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another.”

A Pattern of Violence and Incitement

Jones’ arrest marks the second threat-related arrest against Trump this month. Just a week earlier, Jauan Rashun Porter was arrested for repeatedly posting in a TikTok livestream that there was “only one way to make America great and that is putting a bullet in between Trump’s eyes.”

Porter doubled down in his threats, allegedly telling viewers:

• “I’m gonna kill Donald Trump. I’m gonna put a 7.62 bullet inside his forehead.”
• “I’m gonna watch him bleed out and I’m gonna watch him die.”
• “I’m gonna kill [federal agents] too.”

These arrests follow two actual assassination attempts on President Trump — the July 2024 shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, where Thomas Matthew Crooks fired a shot that grazed Trump’s ear, and the September 2024 incident where Ryan Wesley Routh allegedly tried to assassinate Trump at his golf course in Florida before being stopped by the Secret Service.

Meanwhile, left-wing figures in politics and pop culture have flirted with violent rhetoric for years. From Kathy Griffin’s grotesque beheading stunt in 2017, to former FBI Director James Comey’s cryptic “86 47” Instagram post earlier this year, the cultural Left has normalized language and imagery that suggests violence against the president.

Of course, Griffin and Comey claim they didn’t mean it literally. But now, fringe individuals are taking these cues and acting on them. As the Shakespearean phrase goes, “violent delights have violent ends.”

For now, law enforcement — and providence — have prevented catastrophe. But the escalating hostility from Trump’s political enemies makes one thing clear: the violent Left is not slowing down. And it’s only a matter of time before another would-be attacker tries again.