President Trump Scraps Livestream of Fort Hood Shooter Nidal Hasan’s Execution, Calls Him ‘Scum’

President Donald Trump has scrapped plans to livestream the firing-squad execution of former U.S. Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan.

Trump — who previously said he approved livestreaming the Fort Hood attacker’s execution, per The Washington Post — appears to have changed his stance as criticism mounts over the proposed broadcast.

On Thursday, October 15, the 80-year-old president wrote on his Truth Social that “many very good and well meaning people would rather not watch him die.”

“I think streaming the execution for all to see might have been a strong deterrent for the World to witness how America deals with Terrorists and SCUM like Hasan,” the Apprentice alum added.

Despite calls to cancel the livestream, Trump assured the public that the execution would proceed as planned.

“He will die, as scheduled, by firing squad, but this event will not be streamed,” the president said.

Last week, Vice President JD Vance expressed uncertainty about the Pentagon’s plan to livestream a firing-squad execution.

“I don’t know that that’s actually going to happen,” he told reporters, according to an October 9 report by BBC News. “If it’s through livestream, I’m not going to be watching it.”

Hasan killed 13 unarmed U.S. soldiers and wounded 32 others in a 2009 shooting at a military base in Texas. His execution by firing squad would mark the first military execution in more than six decades.