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The man accused of trying to assassinate Trump at his West Palm Beach golf club will defend himself at his trial, which opens with jury selection in Florida.

Almost a year since he allegedly perched a rifle through the chain-link fence of a golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, the 59-year-old man accused of creating a “sniper’s nest” one hole away from where Donald Trump was playing golf will now stand trial. https://cnn.it/3V6Grbs

— CNN (@cnn.com) 2025-09-08T11:30:07.237516751Z

Ryan Routh, 59, was arrested on September 15, 2024 as he attempted to flee by car. Earlier, the Secret Service had spotted him in the woods surrounding Trump’s golf club in West Palm Beach, just a hundred feet from the area where Donald Trump was staying.

The trial opens on September 8 with jury selection, and according to CNN, Routh has chosen to represent himself. The case promises to be as surprising as some of his court filings, in which he bluntly attacks Trump.

According to documents reported by CNN, Routh makes troubling remarks that hint at the tone of his trial.

In it, he calls Trump a « racist pig » and challenges him to a round of golf to decide his guilt.

The trial, which opens on September 8 under the presidency of federal judge Aileen Cannon, a close Trump ally, is expected to last a maximum of four weeks.

Donald Trump stirred up controversy this weekend when he posted a threatening message on Truth Social, claiming that Chicago « is about to find out » why he renamed the « Department of Defense » to the « Department of War ».

Trump posted online that Chicago was "about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR," but later said his administration wouldn't go to war with American cities but rather "clean them up."

— NPR (@npr.org) 2025-09-08T12:57:16.218672Z

He accompanied his statement with an AI-generated image with a nod to the film Apocalypse Now.

The image shows Trump wearing the hat of Lieutenant-Colonel Kilgore, played by Robert Duvall, with Chicago in flames in the background after U.S. Army helicopters have passed by.

This meme was widely criticized, especially as it contained the phrase « I love the smell of deportations in the morning », a parody of Duvall’s famous line.

Trump then tried to calm the controversy by asserting that his administration is « not going to war » with Chicago.

JB Pritzker, the Democratic governor of Illinois, strongly denounced Trump’s post on X, saying his threat to wage war on an American city was neither a joke nor something normal, and asserting that his state will not be intimidated by a « wannabe dictator. »