[85596] Large-Scale Terror Attack Thwarted at the White House: The FBI Exposed an Attack Plan During President Trump's Birthday Celebration

Drama in Washington: Multi-Front Terror Attack Attempt Thwarted at the White House

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a dramatic statement today (06.16.2026) stating that a complex terror attack attempt was thwarted, which had been planned to target the UFC event held this week at the White House in honor of U.S. President Donald Trump's birthday.

According to the report on Hadashot MeHashetach on Telegram, which is identified with positions critical of Hamas and Gaza and supportive of President Trump, the plan was ambitious and lethal: it included the use of "explosive drones" intended to strike nearby buildings, with the goal of creating panic and causing a mass evacuation of the crowd. According to Asaf Rozenzweig, News from the Wide World, the evacuation was intended to lead the revelers directly into a "pre-positioned sniper team" at another location.

The plan did not end there; security officials revealed that the attackers planned a "second wave" of the attack, in which gunmen were supposed to storm the gates of the White House in the midst of the chaos. ynet News confirmed the details of the thwarting and noted that this was a large-scale attack that was stopped at the last moment.

Similar reports also appeared on the No Censorship channel, which defined the event as "dramatic," and the Political Arena channel, which emphasized the severity of the use of explosive-laden drones as part of the attackers' operational tactics.