‘I’m not a pedophile, I didn’t rape anybody’: Trump loses cool during ‘60 Minutes’ interview over White House Correspondents’ dinner shooting suspect's manifesto; watch here

President Donald Trump lashed out at a reporter after she cited passages from the manifesto of Cole Tomas Allen, the suspected gunman who opened fire near the White House Correspondents' Association dinner on Saturday (April 25, 2026), escalating tensions in the aftermath of the incident.

In an interview with Norah O'Donnell of 60 Minutes, the US president was confronted with excerpts from a manifesto allegedly written by 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen, which he sent to his family moments before the shooting.

“The so-called manifesto is a stunning thing to read, Mr. President,” O’Donnell said. “He appears to reference a motive in it. He writes this quote, ‘Administration officials, they are targets.’” O’Donnell then went on to ask Trump about his reaction to Allen’s rationalization that he was “no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.”





“I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would, because you’re horrible people. Horrible people,” he replied. “Yeah, he did write that. I’m not a rapist. I didn’t rape anybody.” “Oh, do you think he was referring to you?” O’Donnell asked before Trump interrupted.

“I’m not a pedophile. Excuse me. Excuse me. I’m not a pedophile. You read that c--- from some sick person? I got associated with stuff that has nothing to do with me. I was totally exonerated. Your friends on the other side of the plate are the ones that were involved with, let’s say, Epstein or other things. But I said to myself, ‘You know, I’ll do this interview and they’ll probably—' I read the manifesto. You know, he’s a sick person. But you should be ashamed of yourself reading that because I’m not any of those things.”

“You shouldn’t be reading that on 60 Minutes. You’re a disgrace. But go ahead. Let’s finish the interview,” he continued, adding, “You’re disgraceful.”

The brother of suspect Allen reported the manifesto that the 31-year-old allegedly sent minutes before approaching the Washington, D.C., dinner at around 8:35 p.m., as reported by the New York Post. The shooting incident prompted Trump and members of his administration to rush for cover.

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