A man tried to assassinate President Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner – and a Wisconsin teacher used it to wish the shooter had done a better job.
Patrick Meyer, a social studies teacher at Kaukauna High School, posted on X that he was "not impressed with recent presidential assassins."
What he wrote next is why he no longer has a classroom.
The Post That Ended His Career
He was naming names – John Wilkes Booth, Charles Guiteau, Leon Czolgosz, Lee Harvey Oswald – and complaining that Cole Tomas Allen, the man charged with attempting to assassinate President Trump on April 25, had embarrassed all of them.
"MAGAA (make Americans great assassins again)!" he wrote. "Sad!"
Allen had sprinted through a security checkpoint past a metal detector and multiple Secret Service agents at the Washington Hilton, armed with two firearms and multiple knives.
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He sent a farewell email to family minutes before the attack, signing it "Cole 'Friendly Federal Assassin' Allen."
One Secret Service agent was hit – saved only by a bulletproof vest.
And Meyer's response was to grade the attempt on a curve.
The Board Heard Nine Hours of Arguments – Then Voted 6 to 1
The Kaukauna Area School District placed Meyer on administrative leave in April after community members saw screenshots of the since-deleted post.
Parents showed up at school board meetings furious.
"If this school district or school board doesn't do the right thing and fire him, there's something very seriously wrong with all of you," said Kaukauna parent Naomi Dvorachek.
Wednesday's board meeting ran nine hours – the vast majority behind closed doors.
The vote was 6-1 to terminate his contract.
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The district's official reasoning was direct: Meyer's post "created actual material disruption to district and school operations."
The lone dissenting vote, board member Charles West, said the First Amendment was "really important" to him and he thought the board "probably should support that first one."
One elected official, sitting in a room full of furious parents, voted to protect the man who cheered for presidential assassins.
Write that name down: Charles West, Kaukauna Area School District.
This Is What They've Been Teaching Your Kids
Meyer isn't a bad apple.
He's a pattern.
An Ohio day care teacher named Corrine Baum was fired that same week after posting a video expressing disappointment that Trump wasn't killed.
A New Jersey teacher named Fred Wilson had already posted on Facebook earlier this year that "assassination is at least a talking point" – drawing a Secret Service investigation before the Correspondents' Dinner shooting ever happened.
Two teachers fired in the same week.
A third investigated months before them. Same sentiment, different zip codes.
These aren't isolated misfires from the fringe – they're the product of an education system that has spent twenty years telling its teachers that Donald Trump is an existential threat to democracy, that resistance is a moral imperative, and that anyone who disagrees deserves what's coming.
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When you build that culture in a faculty lounge, don't be shocked when someone posts MAGAA on X.
Meyer taught social studies – the class specifically designed to tell kids how democracy works.
He was teaching your grandchildren.
And the only reason he's gone is because six school board members in Kaukauna, Wisconsin had enough spine to do what the union, the university, and the entire progressive education establishment would have protected him from doing himself.
The question is how many classrooms still have a Patrick Meyer in them – and how many school boards have a Charles West deciding their fate.
Sources:
- Rachel del Guidice, "Wisconsin teacher fired after social media post advocating to 'make Americans great assassins again,'" Fox News, May 28, 2026.
- "Kaukauna teacher is fired for social media post about Trump assassination attempt," Fox 11 Online, May 28, 2026.
- "Suspect in White House Correspondents' Dinner Shooting Charged with Attempt to Assassinate the President," U.S. Department of Justice, April 27, 2026.
- "Teacher fired after post about Trump assassination attempt," Fox 19, April 27, 2026.
- "NJ teacher allegedly threatened Trump on social media in disturbing posts," New York Post, 2026.