A man from South Carolina is now being accused of threatening to “take the life” of President Donald Trump, taking to social media platform X where he wrote that he wanted to shut Trump up forever by planting him six feet under the ground, federal prosecutors revealed. “@realDonaldTrump you have the right to remain silent,” John Alexander Bellue said in an X post from September 2025.
“I’m gonna kill you in the most brutal way possible,” Bellue allegedly stated. A grand jury indicted Bellue on a single count of threatening the president and one count of interstate communication to send the threat, according to information contained in federal court records. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina is now handling the case.
“On or about September 7, 2025, in the District of South Carolina, the defendant … did knowingly and willfully make a threat to take the life of and to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States,” prosecutors explained in Bellue’s indictment. The U.S. attorney’s office said that a “reasonable recipient who is familiar with the circumstances” would interpret the man’s post as a “serious expression of an intent to do harm.”
Bellue, who is from the Rock Hill area, posted the assassination threat on September 7, 2025, while Trump was attending the U.S. Open’s men’s tournament in New York City. According to a report from Law & Crime, he was indicted on May 19, 2026. Bellue’s criminal record was, up until now, squeaky clean, having no prior convictions.
The indictment came just several days prior to U.S. Secret Service officers shooting and killing a gunman who opened fire on a White House security checkpoint. Maryland resident Nasire Best, 21, shot at a checkpoint located near 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue while the president was inside the White House. At the time of the incident, it was the third time a shooting happened close to Trump.
One of those other incidents happened during the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in April. The other took place near the Washington Monument. President Trump responded to the incident in a post on Truth Social, saying, “Thank you to our great Secret Service and Law Enforcement for the swift and professional action taken this evening against a gunman near the White House, who had a violent history and possible obsession with our Country’s most cherished structure.”
According to a report from KNews, a man from New York was also recently charged with making terroristic death threats against President Trump and members of his family, sending over a hundred messages to the White House and posting threats against Trump on X, saying he would “hunt,” “rape,” and “murder” them. Joshua Alexander, 43, was arrested on June 6 near his home after police, working with the Secret Service, tracked him down.
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Alexander immediately confessed to making the threats and continued spewing them during the interview with law enforcement officials. He allegedly told agents he was going to “f***ing kill” Trump as they read his posts to him. In one post dated June 6, 2026, Alexander wrote, “I’m going to rent a car, and I’m coming to find you, President Trump.”