Corinne Baum was identified on social media as the woman in a video that spread after gunshots broke out at the Washington Hilton during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and the clip quickly turned into a public backlash. Donald Trump and other government officials were evacuated from the hotel during the shooting.
In the video, Baum did not explicitly say she wanted Trump to be assassinated. She said, “Man, there's been a few creators on here saying that like Friday or yesterday could have been the day and then I wake up to that news but not that news.” She also said, “We're gonna have to pay really close attention to what they're trying to actually distract us from.”
Libs of TikTok shared a screenshot of Baum’s LinkedIn account, which showed that she is a teacher at The Children's House in Cincinnati. After that post spread, netizens flooded the comments with criticism, including calls for her to be kept away from children and fired from her job. One user wrote, “She should have a restraining order to not be within 1,000 feet of a school.” Another wrote, “Another demonic person who shouldn't be influencing our future generations!”
The reaction sharpened because the shooting itself was already a national security event. Authorities said suspect Cole Tomas Allen, 31, breached security at the Washington Hilton, shot a law enforcement agent who was not seriously injured and now faces two counts of using a firearm during a crime of violence and one count of assault on an officer using a dangerous weapon.
Baum’s comments were framed online as a political statement tied to the shooting, but the posted video did not include an explicit call for violence. What followed was a familiar internet escalation: a local teacher, a public clip, a workplace identified within hours and a torrent of demands that her employer act. The school has now been dragged into a national story because the clip landed at the same moment as a high-profile security breach in Washington.
For Baum, the bigger story is no longer just what she said in the video. It is that her identity, job and workplace were pulled into the aftermath of a shooting that put Trump and other officials in motion, and the online response has already made the consequences immediate.