A Massachusetts lunatic who threatened to viciously kill President Trump in a string of rambling Facebook posts brandished a sword at FBI agents as they attempted to arrest him on Wednesday,
Andrew Emerald, 45, who was taken into custody after a brief standoff with authorities, allegedly penned eight separate Facebook posts from May 2025 to July 2025 that threatened to injure and kill Trump — including hanging him “from the Statue of Liberty,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the District of Massachusetts.
Andrew Emerald, 45, was arrested on Wednesday for threatening to kill President Trump.
He was indicted by a federal grand jury for his online threats, prosecutors said.
Emerald, of Great Barrington, first posted on May 3, 2025: “When I see to it that Trump is put to death. It will be the day the purpose creation put me here for beyond creating. My daughter is fulfilled. (because what she is destined to do for the world is far greater than mine, taking out the orange menace!)”
Another post, just two weeks later, allegedly read: “we’re going to f—ing kill Trump on public television so the world sees what we do to f—ing monsters.”
“Then we’re gonna hang him from the Statue of Liberty until his pathetic bloated corpse rots off falls in the ocean, and I swept out the to see with humanities trash,” he continued in the disturbing rant.
He also allegedly accused Trump on June 14, 2025, of killing “millions of people by proxy” and being a “monster to f humanity.”
“And I won’t be murdering you I will be executing a monster. I will be fulfilling my constitutional duty to execute a criminal citizen that’s committed high treason just like the constitution tells me too, tells us all f—ing too,” Emerald wrote.
“Trump either you’re dead by 2026 or I’m coming for you personally and if I’m the one that kills you, you’re gonna suffer you little f—ing b—h,” he alarmingly wrote in a July 7, 2025, screed.
Emerald was indicted by a federal grand jury on eight counts of interstate transmission of threatening communications for the eight alleged threatening rants targeting Trump. Aaron Schwartz / Pool via CNP / SplashNews.comAs FBI special agents broke down the front door of Emerald’s Great Barrington home with a battering ram on Wednesday morning, he repeatedly refused to go anywhere with them, according to an affidavit in support of pre-trial detention.
The maniac then brandished a “long, metallic sword” in one hand and held a sheath in the other hand — threatening agents to shoot him as he refused to put the weapon down, court documents said.
He then shut the door on the agents, with additional authorities and a crisis negotiator stepping in and coaxing Emerald to voluntarily leave his house so agents could cuff him.
Emerald also allegedly told agents that they were “lucky they were not from ICE” because he “would have come out of the residence with the sword,” an FBI agent wrote in the affidavit.
Several bladed weapons were later found in a search of his home.
Emerald was charged with eight counts of interstate transmission of threatening communications, according to prosecutors.
He was slated to appear in federal court in Springfield on Wednesday afternoon.
Emerald’s Facebook account remained active as of Wednesday evening.
It is unclear how many of Emerald’s rants had been removed by the online platform.
If convicted, he faces up to five years in prison, three years of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine.
