UnitedHealthcare Fires Social Media Manager Over Trump Video

UnitedHealthcare fired a social media manager on Tuesday after a viral TikTok video surfaced in which she appeared to express sarcastic disappointment that an assassination attempt on President Donald Trump had failed.

The incident occurred Saturday night at the White House Correspondents Association annual dinner at the Washington Hilton hotel, where Trump attended for the first time as president alongside first lady Melania Trump, Cabinet officials, members of Congress and journalists. Authorities arrested 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen after he allegedly attempted to rush the ballroom and fired shots. He faces charges of attempting to assassinate the president and two firearm-related offenses, according to the Department of Justice.

In the video, the woman, identified across social media as Alison King, 29, from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, recounted her initial reactions to news of the attempt. "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," she said. "Immediately I was like, oh, that wasn't real, probably fake. And the second was aww, they missed? So happy they missed. Yeah,...