A company already scarred by the murder of its own chief executive has fired an employee who publicly lamented that President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt, jolting the insurer back into the centre of America's debate over political violence.
UnitedHealthcare has dismissed a social media manager after a viral clip showed her expressing sympathy for Saturday's attempted assassination, an incident that risks thrusting America's largest health insurer into the centre of a national political violence debate for the second time, just 16 months after its CEO, Brian Thompson, was murdered. The termination, confirmed by the company on the morning of Tuesday, 28 April 2026, came within hours of the video spreading across social media platforms and drawing urgent calls for corporate accountability.
