A recent incident at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, has raised serious concerns about the adequacy of Secret Service protection for President Donald Trump. A club member managed to bring a loaded Glock handgun onto the property in August while Trump was present and golfing.
According to Real Clear Politics, the weapon was in a bag that was hand-checked and scanned with a wand by a Secret Service Uniformed Division officer — yet the gun went undetected. While officials stated the firearm was never in Trump’s immediate vicinity and posed no direct threat, the lapse is sparking fresh scrutiny over security protocols.
The issue was confirmed Tuesday by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt when pressed about how the gun had slipped through layers of protection.
That same evening, a second security concern unfolded in Washington, D.C., where Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth were confronted inside a restaurant by pro-Palestinian protesters. Eyewitnesses said demonstrators approached the group and shouted at them for roughly 30 seconds before Trump ordered security to remove them.
Footage of the protest quickly spread online, prompting speculation about how activists discovered Trump’s location so precisely. Some within the Secret Service have raised the possibility of an information leak.
These two incidents come just one year after an assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, and a more recent attempt at his West Palm Beach golf course. Both events underscore the rising security threats facing the former president — and the questions now mounting over whether enough is being done to prevent the next breach.
A Secret Service spokesperson said an internal review has been launched into the golf club firearm incident.
