President Trump has made his first public remarks about the intruder shot and killed by the Secret Service as he entered Mar-a-Lago’s grounds early Sunday.
Austin Tucker Martin, 21, of Cameron, NC, tried to sneak into Mar-a-Lago while carrying a gun and a gas can and was shot by Secret Service agents after he refused to drop the weapon.
The president, who survived two assassination attempts in 2024, joked that maybe he should be “a little bit less consequential” in order to stop drawing such attention.
“You read about all these crazy shooters, but they only go after consequential presidents,” he said at his Angel Families event at the White House. “They don’t go after non-consequential presidents.”
Citing Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, Trump reiterated: “They were consequential,” adding: “They only go after consequential. So maybe I want to be a little bit less consequential.”
The president was at the White House at the time.
“I don’t know how long I’ll be around,” he told his audience in the White House East Room.
“Got a lot of people gunning for me.”