UnitedHealthcare fires employee over comments regarding WHCA dinner shooting
An employee identified as Alison King uploaded to social media a video in which she reportedly said “aww they missed” in reaction to the suspect’s failed plot against President Trump and other officials. “You know we’re cooked as a country when my first reaction to hearing the news about Trump’s [assassination] attempt was—it was probably fake—I was like, ‘oh, that wasn’t real,’ probably fake,” King reportedly said in the video uploaded to the social platform X by LeftismU. That’s when you know we’re cooked,” she added.
- ▪An employee identified as Alison King uploaded to social media a video in which she reportedly said “aww they missed” in reaction to the suspect’s failed plot against President Trump and other officials.
- ▪“You know we’re cooked as a country when my first reaction to hearing the news about Trump’s [assassination] attempt was—it was probably fake—I was like, ‘oh, that wasn’t real,’ probably fake,” King reportedly said in the video uploaded to
- ▪That’s when you know we’re cooked,” she added.
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| Publication time | Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:44:41 +0000 |
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Administration UnitedHealthcare says it fired employee over comments regarding WHCA dinner shooting Comments: by Ashleigh Fields - 04/28/26 5:44 PM ET Comments: Link copied by Ashleigh Fields - 04/28/26 5:44 PM ET Comments: Link copied NOW PLAYING UnitedHealthcare on Tuesday said it fired an employee who made sympathetic comments toward the suspect involved in a shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday. An employee identified as Alison King uploaded to social media a video in which she reportedly said “aww they missed” in reaction to the suspect’s failed plot against President Trump and other officials.
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