Man arrested for Facebook posts threatening President Trump
Massachusetts Man Held Over Facebook Death Threats Against Trump Had Swords at Home
President Donald Trump – (Web Desk) – A man from Massachusetts has been arrested for allegedly making serious threats against President Donald Trump. Federal officials announced this on Wednesday.
The suspect is Andrew Emerald, 45 years old. Prosecutors say he wrote eight threatening messages on Facebook last year. In those posts he talked about injuring and even killing the president.
One post from May 2025 was especially alarming. Emerald reportedly wrote that either Trump would be dead by 2026 or he would hunt him down himself. In another post that same month he threatened to burn down Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
The FBI went to his home to arrest him. But things got tense very quickly. Emerald refused to come out. Agents say he showed up at the door holding a long metal sword. He told them they would have to shoot him first.
It took a crisis negotiator and a local police officer to calm him down. After a while he finally walked out peacefully.
Trump survived an assassination attempt back in 2024 when a bullet grazed him during a campaign event. Security around the president has been very tight ever since.
The FBI on Wednesday shared pictures of several swords and blades apparently found inside Emerald’s home.
In one Facebook post, he allegedly wrote: “I plan to go to DC with my sword [sword emoji] and kill trump and as (many) of the domestic terrorist he emboldens as I can.”
Authorities previously questioned Emerald in 2018, during Trump’s first term, over a possible threat to shoot the president, according to the court filing.
Emerald was arrested after being indicated on March 19 on eight counts of interstate transmission of threatening communications, a charge that carries up to five years in prison.
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There have been several similar cases involving social media threats against Trump. In March, a Virginia man was sentenced to more than two years in prison for sending threats online to kill the US president.
Trump narrowly escaped an attempt on his life in July 2024 when a gunman opened fire at an election campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
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