Hasan Piker mocks White House ballroom after shooting near checkpoint

Far-left Twitch streamer Hasan Piker posted sarcastic remarks on X after an alleged gunman opened fire at a White House security checkpoint on Saturday.

Piker reshared a video of ABC News White House correspondent Selina Wang ducking for cover on the North Lawn after shots were heard. He followed with another post that mocked the planned White House ballroom, writing, "Sources tell me the ballroom is safe! please god."

The Secret Service said the shooting began shortly after 6 p.m. near 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW. The gunman, identified by multiple sources as 21-year-old Nasire Best of Maryland, fired several shots toward a Secret Service booth before Uniformed Division officers returned fire and killed him. Best had a documented history of law enforcement encounters and mental health concerns.

A bystander was wounded during the exchange. Officials have not identified the person or released a condition update. No Secret Service agents were injured.

President Trump was inside the White House working on Iran peace talks and was briefed on the incident. In a Truth Social post, he thanked law enforcement and said the shooting showed the need for the ballroom project, which he described as "the most safe and secure space of its kind ever built in Washington, D.C."

The approved plan calls for an approximately 22,000-square-foot ballroom that would seat about 1,000 guests within roughly 89,000 square feet of East Wing space.

Piker also posted on TikTok, using Wang's video to claim the shootings occur "because there is no ballroom" and that a ballroom would deter future attackers.

Piker has criticized the ballroom proposal before. Last month he posted on Instagram that "the right is using" the earlier shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner "to justify building Trump's ballroom lmao."

Federal officials have served subpoenas to Piker and CodePink co-founder Susan Medea Benjamin as part of an investigation into whether U.S. organizations and leaders violated laws and sanctions by supporting Cuba's communist regime.