The Secret Service is investigating a Michigan nurse identified as Rhonda Lee after a video circulated online in which she threatened President Donald Trump with a knife and described a plan to cut his throat.
A video that spread online fast enough to ignite outrage is now pulling the Secret Service into the middle of a threat made by a Michigan nurse.
The agency is investigating Rhonda Lee, identified as a nurse from Michigan who worked at the University of Michigan Medical Center from March 2000 until 2023. The threat surfaced after an independent news outlet, Right Angle News Network, shared a video on X along with Lee’s LinkedIn profile.
In the footage, Lee says, “God, please kill this motherf*****. He needs to f****** die. I’ve never felt like that about anyone.” She continues, “Given my profession, it’s counterintuitive, but you know what, f*** that guy. He f****** needs to die.”
The rhetoric escalates further when she describes traveling to Washington, D.C., with a knife. Lee says she would take “my godd*** neck knife and give that motherf***** a smiley face across his godd*** neck.”
As the clip circulated, the response online turned sharply punitive. Many X users argued Lee should lose her ability to practice medicine permanently. One comment demanded she “lose her license to practice medicine. be arrested and FIRED.” Another said someone expressing “that level of HATE” should “NEVER. EVER be allowed to provide in home care for elderly patients or any patients for that matter.”.
The video also sparked broader frustration about healthcare workers showing up in politically charged controversies. “What is it about nurses and teachers?” one user wrote. “They used to be people to look up at. Now they act like psychopaths.”
The Secret Service confirmed it is taking the matter seriously. In a statement to Fox News Digital. Secret Service communications chief Anthony Guglielmi said the agency continuously monitors information streams to support its protective intelligence mission. “Anything that could be perceived as a threat to the president or any Secret Service protectee is taken extremely seriously and investigated thoroughly. ” he said. while declining to discuss specifics.
The University of Michigan Medical Center also moved to distance itself from Lee. Mary Masson, senior director of public relations, confirmed Lee “has not worked there since 2023” and said the institution is cooperating with investigators.
Lee’s case landed amid a wider online pattern. Several nurses from across the country have taken to social media in recent months to wish ill or harm on members of the Trump administration.
In May. Matthew Shaffer. a nurse at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. drew attention after commenting on a Facebook post made by Jason Cosler. a producer for Lego. regarding the shooting incident at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. Shaffer asked shooters to “up their game” and expressed disappointment that Trump was not killed in the shooting. Cosler’s original post had read, “Someone missed again?. Who is hiring these people,” and screenshots of the exchange spread.
A Cedars-Sinai spokesperson told Fox News Digital in a statement that “social media postings of individual staff members do not reflect the views or positions of Cedars-Sinai.”
Earlier, a Florida nurse posted a TikTok urging foreign countries to “attack” the United States. In a March video, nurse Joyce Schulz-Killian said, “Come on, Canada. Come on, U.K. Come on, China, you know you wanna do it,” adding “attack” the U.S. to remove what she called Trump’s “regime.” Schulz-Killian later defended her remarks in a statement. saying she posted the video “to bring awareness that NOT all Americans support the regime in place of Donald Trump.” She added that “Some of the Americans grew up believing in the Constitution and that the government is for the people. by the people. That Congress represents the people and not one person is in charge. even the president has oversight. ” according to the statement.
The thread connecting these incidents is the same ignition point: politically charged posts made by people identified as nurses—then amplified online, then met with institutional distancing and now, in Lee’s case, a federal investigation.
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