The shooting at the White House Correspondents’ dinner over the weekend was disturbed, deranged, twisted. In obligatory 2026 style, the fallout might have been weirder still.

Ostensibly perpetrated by 31-year-old California teacher and self-styled “Friendly Federal Assassin” Cole Thomas Allen, the incident in the public consciousness quickly descended into false-flag, time-traveling, Mossad-agent bizarro land. A few conspiratorial theories already flying about the WHCA shooting:

Cole Allen traveled through time. Yes, you read that right: aninstantlyviraltheorydescribedan elaborate “Timeline War” plot:

An X account by the name ofHenry Martinezmade one post in 2023, reading only — “Cole Allen.” It’s the sole post on the account, which garnered 52 million views less than 48 hours after the WHCA shooting.

The Martinez account features an odd banner image, seen right, and aPepe the Frog memein a tux for the profile picture.

The banner image for the account @HenryMa79561893 is pulled from theTime Machine project, an EU-based company that uses data to build a digital archive of European history.

The colorized banner looks, to some, like a distorted image of Trump raising his fist after the 2024 shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania. To others, it’s a classic example ofpareidolia, the phenomenon that leads people to see Jesus cleaning trout in tree stumps or wall mold. The latter group is less important to the conspiracy theory, of course.

Cole Allen alsointernedat NASA in 2014, the same year NASApublished a paperon rocket systems by a lead author named… Henry Martinez.

Therefore, a NASA-linked scientist, Martinez, knew about both the Butler shooting and the WHCA shooting in 2023. Throw in the recentstring of disappearing scientists, andas @BGatesisaPsycho put it:

Either time travel is real, or more than likely you are simply watching a scripted movie.

Source: Racket News