President Trump has just given his thoughts on the recent armed intruder who was shot dead by the Secret Service after breaching a perimeter at his Mar-a-Lago estate. As the WLT Report previously covered on Sunday, the armed man who breached the secure perimeter was identified as 21-year-old Austin Tucker Martin. At the time of the shooting, Martin pointed a shotgun at Secret Service agents and had a gas can. Now, President Trump has addressed the security incident and shared he has a lot of people “gunning” for him. The New York Post was the first to report on President Trump’s reaction to the intruder: President Trump has made his first public remarks about the intruder shot and killed by the Secret Service as he entered Mar-a-Lago’s grounds early Sunday. Austin Tucker Martin, 21, of Cameron, NC, tried to sneak into Mar-a-Lago while carrying a gun and a gas can and was shot by Secret Service agents after he refused to drop the weapon. “I don’t know how long I’ll be around,” he told his audience Monday in the White House East Room. “Got a lot of people gunning for me.” The president, who survived two assassination attempts in 2024, joked that maybe he should be “a little bit less consequential” in order to stop drawing such attention. “You read about all these crazy shooters, but they only go after consequential presidents,” he said at his Angel Families event at the White House. “They don’t go after non-consequential presidents.” Citing Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, Trump reiterated: “They were consequential,” adding: “They only go after consequential. So maybe I want to be a little bit less consequential.” Watch Trump here: BREAKING: President Trump says he doesn’t know how much time he has left because a lot of people are “gunning for him.” pic.twitter.com/h3Ld6xz7s8 — Megatron (@Megatron_ron) February 23, 2026 NBC Miami had these details to report on the incident: The 21-year-old North Carolina man who drove through a gate at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort with a shotgun before he was shot and killed worked as a golf course groundskeeper and liked to sketch. Austin Tucker Martin rarely, if ever, talked about politics, seemed afraid of guns, and came from a family of Trump supporters, according to Braeden Fields, a cousin who said the two grew up together. “I wouldn’t believe he would do something like this. It’s mind-blowing,” Fields said. “He wouldn’t even hurt an ant. He doesn’t even know how to use a gun.” Martin drove into the secure perimeter at Mar-a-Lago early Sunday and raised a shotgun at two Secret Service agents and a Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputy who then opened fire “to neutralize the threat,” said Sheriff Ric Bradshaw. Trump, who often spends weekends at the Palm Beach, Florida, resort, was at the White House at the time. Investigators have not identified a motive. Trump faced two assassination attempts during the 2024 campaign, including one just a few miles from Mar-a-Lago when a man was spotted aiming a rifle through shrubbery while Trump was golfing. Following Sunday’s incident, Secret Service spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi said investigators believe Martin bought his shotgun while driving to Florida. Authorities said his family had recently reported him missing.