A dormant X account named Henry Martinez tweeted 'Cole Allen' on December 21, 2023 — 28 months before the WHCD shooting

A Pepe-Avatar X Account Posted "Cole Allen" in 2023. The Real Cole Allen Just Tried to Kill Trump.

On April 25, 2026, Cole Tomas Allen — a 31-year-old from Torrance, California — charged a Secret Service checkpoint at the White House Correspondents' Dinner with a shotgun and two handguns. Within hours of his name surfacing, internet sleuths found something unsettling: a December 2023 X post by an account named Henry Martinez containing only the words "Cole Allen."

The Account

@HenryMa79561893 was created in December 2023. It has a Pepe the Frog profile picture, no bio, no followers, no following, and a "colorful abstract" banner image. It posted exactly once — at 6:07 PM on December 21, 2023 — the words "Cole Allen." It has been dormant for 28 months. As of April 26, 2026, the account remains live and unsuspended despite passing 11.8 million views.

The Fact-Check

Breitbart's tech desk ran a fact-check on the post. The verdict: TRUE — the tweet exists, was made on the date claimed, and pre-dates the WHCD shooting by nearly two and a half years. There is no verified evidence linking the account operator to the suspect or to any plot, but no official agency has explained the post.

Why It Matters

Predictive tweets are a recurring artifact of modern internet folklore — The Simpsons "predicting" Trump, Q drops "predicting" 2020 events. Most are after-the-fact pattern matching. The Henry Martinez post is unusual because it pre-dates the event, names the suspect, and is the account's only activity. The federal investigation has not addressed it publicly.