The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a woman identified as a nurse after a viral video appeared to show her threatening to drive to Washington, D.C., and use a knife on President Donald Trump, the latest in a string of healthcare workers posting graphic threats against the president on social media.
The video, shared Sunday by Right Angle News Network, shows a woman identified as Rhonda Lee making extended, profanity-laden remarks expressing a desire for the president's death. Fox News Digital reported that Lee's LinkedIn profile listed her as having worked at University of Michigan Medical Center beginning in March 2000, though she has not been employed there since 2023.
The comments were not ambiguous. They were detailed, sustained, and specific about method.
In the clip, Lee said: "God, please kill this motherf*****. He needs to f***ing die. I've never felt like that about anyone." She went on: "Given my profession, it's counterintuitive but you know what? F*** that guy. He f***ing needs to die."
Then she escalated further:
"I have never been a violent person, but I'm about to drive up there with my god*** neck knife and give that motherf***** a smiley face across his god*** neck. F*** him. I hate that b****."
That is not political commentary. It is a graphic description of how she would like to harm the sitting president of the United States.
Anthony Guglielmi, chief of communications for the Secret Service, told Fox News Digital that the agency "continuously monitors information streams to support our protective intelligence mission." He added that the agency could not confirm or comment on specific threat cases but said anything "that could be perceived as a threat to the President or any Secret Service protectee is taken extremely seriously and investigated thoroughly."
Mary Masson, senior director of public relations at Michigan Medicine, confirmed to Fox News Digital that Lee has not worked at the institution since 2023. Masson said the medical center is "cooperating with law enforcement to provide any information helpful to their investigation."
The Secret Service has faced a relentless pace of security threats in recent months. A Texas man was recently indicted for firing at Secret Service agents near the Washington Monument along Vice President Vance's motorcade route, a reminder that the threats against this administration are not hypothetical.
Fox News Digital reported it attempted to reach Lee for comment.
Lee's video is not an isolated incident. It fits a documented pattern of nurses across the country using social media to wish harm on the president or members of his administration.
A Florida nurse posted a TikTok video calling on foreign governments, including China and the United Kingdom, to attack the United States in order to remove what she called the Trump "regime." A California nurse expressed disappointment that Trump was not killed during the April shooting at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner.
That April shooting itself underscored the real-world danger behind such rhetoric. Armed Secret Service agents responded on stage during the incident, and the administration has since pointed to what it calls an "assassination culture" stoked by reckless public discourse. Concerns about Secret Service preparedness date back to the 2024 Butler rally shooting, where gaps in the protective perimeter nearly proved fatal.
An Ohio teacher was fired after a video appeared to show her lamenting that Trump survived the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner shooting. Educators and nurses, professionals entrusted with the most vulnerable, have drawn particular scrutiny for this kind of conduct.
Social media users reacted sharply to Lee's video. One user on X wrote: "She needs to lose her license to practice medicine, be arrested and FIRED." Another said someone "with that level of HATE in her heart to post a video for The World to see/hear should NEVER, EVER be allowed to provide in home care for elderly patients or any patients for that matter."
A third observed: "What is it about nurses and teachers? They used to be people to look up at. Now they act like psychopaths."
White House spokesman Davis Ingle did not mince words. In a statement to Fox News Digital, Ingle said:
"Anyone who engages in or endorses political violence or assassination culture must be condemned in the harshest terms possible. They should also immediately seek psychiatric help to treat their severe and debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has warped their brains and made them sick in the head."
The White House has pointed to what officials describe as a "crazed" normalization of violent rhetoric, one that radicalizes unstable individuals and fuels online threats. Three separate attempts on the president's life have now been documented, and the administration has called for accountability from both the media and the Democratic Party.
The security environment around the president remains tense. Just recently, the Secret Service tackled a man who attempted to scale the White House fence while the president was inside, one more data point in a pattern that should alarm anyone who takes presidential security seriously.
Lee herself acknowledged the contradiction between her profession and her statements. "Given my profession, it's counterintuitive," she said, before dismissing the tension entirely. A nurse, someone trained to preserve life, licensed to care for the sick and elderly, described in graphic detail how she would use a blade on the president's neck.
The question is not just whether this rises to the level of a criminal threat. It is whether the institutions responsible for licensing, employing, and overseeing healthcare workers will treat this with the seriousness it demands. Michigan Medicine distanced itself quickly. But Lee held her position there for more than two decades. The broader nursing profession has yet to reckon with the fact that multiple members have now gone public, on camera, with violent fantasies about a sitting president.
A West Virginia librarian was recently arrested for allegedly recruiting people on social media to assassinate Trump. That case moved to criminal charges. Whether Lee's remarks cross the same legal threshold remains to be seen, but the Secret Service investigation signals that federal authorities are not treating it as mere venting.
The broader political environment has also raised questions about the safety of officials across the administration. Public controversy around threats to the president's life has intensified as the number of documented incidents grows.
Every American has the right to despise a president's policies. That is foundational. But describing, on video, in detail, naming the weapon and the method, how you would like to cut a president's throat is not political speech. It is the kind of statement that federal law treats as a potential threat against a protectee, and the Secret Service is right to investigate it.
The pattern matters as much as the individual case. When nurses, teachers, and librarians feel comfortable posting graphic threats against the president on social media, and expect applause for it, something has gone badly wrong in the culture that shaped them. The radicalization is not happening in dark corners of the internet. It is happening on LinkedIn profiles and TikTok accounts belonging to licensed professionals.
If the institutions that employ and credential these people cannot hold the line, federal law enforcement will have to do it for them. And the politicians and media figures whose rhetoric normalizes this kind of talk will own every consequence that follows.