Trump's special plane had just taken off from the White House, and a laser suddenly came over. The perpetrator wanted the special plane to be destroyed and killed.
According to the indictment released by the court in Washington, a 33-year-old man named Jacob Winkler is facing federal felony charges for using a laser pointer to illuminate the flying presidential helicopter "Marine Corps One".
One evening a few days ago, Trump flew the Naval Corps One from the White House to Virginia for a public event, where the helicopter would fly from the White House toward the Washington Monument after taking off, and the helicopter was flying at low altitude because it had just taken off.
Just as the helicopter took off, a uniformed U.S. Secret Service agent was patrolling the ground when he spotted Winkler on Constitution Avenue outside the White House and was heading for 17th Street Northwest.
Winkler then stood up and spoke to himself loudly, so the Secret Service staff hand-lighted him, Winkler then with the red laser pen in his hand lighted the face of the Secret Service staff, causing the other person to briefly "lost direction" to lose the ability to operate normally.
Winkler then pointed the laser pointer at the Marine Corps One Trump was aboard.
But the intelligence officers who were exposed to laser radiation quickly reacted, rushed to arrest Winkler and found a seven or eight centimeters long straight knife from him.
The indictment shows that while wearing the bracelet, Winkler repeatedly said, “I apologize to Donald Trump.”
Although Winkler’s actions did not have serious consequences, the Navy Corps 1 continued to fly normally, investigators still believed that Winkler’s actions “had the risk of causing flash blindness and pilots to lose direction.”
Especially when the Navy Corps 1 was flying at low altitudes and other helicopters were in the vicinity, this move could cause the Navy Corps 1 to crash into other helicopters or nearby buildings.
U.S. government statistics show that since 2025, a total of 5,913 laser irradiation incidents against aircraft have been reported in the United States, of which 6 caused injuries.
With this calculation, Winkler’s behavior has more than one in a thousand chances of having a negative impact on Trump’s special flight.
The use of laser equipment to irradiate the plane is a federal felony in the United States. Winkler shot Trump's presidential plane this time, so he was quickly sued.
Once the conviction is established, Winkler will face a maximum of five years in prison and a criminal fine of up to $250,000, with the Federal Aviation Administration also likely to impose a fine of up to $320,000 on him.
Winkler told police during the hearing that he did not know that he could not use lasers to target Navy Corps One, and that he would often use lasers in his daily life.
From these testimonies and the concrete performance, Winkler appears to have mental problems, but the outside world can still not be ruled out, Winkler is to avoid blame pretending to be a mental problem, his real purpose of keeping the rabbits outside the White House, is to interfere with the flight of the "Marine Corps One" to find trouble for Trump.
Moreover, even if future diagnoses prove that Winkler really has mental problems, his actions are likely to be linked to political conflict in the United States.
In recent years, political divisions have become increasingly evident in the United States, and the incidence of violence against politicians seems to have risen, and Trump was assassinated last year.
Before the irradiation incident, Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist close to Trump, Musk and others, was shot while giving a campus speech, and eventually died of serious injuries, which completely detonated the opposition in American society. Trump and other conservatives pointed the finger at the left wing before the investigation of the case was over.
So not to rule out Winkler’s action is to express dissatisfaction with Trump or the entire Conservative camp.
At the moment, Trump himself has not yet spoken about the matter, and the White House has not responded to the media's request for comments, and seems to want to minimize the matter to avoid escalating domestic contradictions for such a thing.
Under this circumstance, the mainstream media in the United States, which generally supports the Democratic Party, did not guide this incident, which did not cause casualties, in the direction of domestic political opposition.
But, on the contrary, the current failure of all parties to talk about it shows precisely that the political opposition in the United States has developed to a certain extent, and the parties have no capacity to mitigate the contradictions, but are also willing to avoid the escalation of political violence.
Overall, the incident caused by the laser pen, although it did not cause substantial damage, but like a prism, reflect the deep cracks and crises in the U.S. political security ecology.
From the high tension of the Secret Service to the collective silence after the events, every detail reveals a highly tense unrest.
When political opposition is sharp to the threat of violence becomes normal, and even a seemingly absurd laser radiation can raise deep concerns about the presidential security, the United States is facing not just political divisions, but a test of social cohesion and basic rationality.