Austin Shooting: Ndiaga Diagne Previously Slammed Donald Trump As 'Shameless Clown' In Sick Rants

Ndiaga Diagne's online footprint is under fresh scrutiny after the Austin shooting in Texas, where the 40‑year‑old is accused of opening fire at a packed bar on 28 February, killing two people and injuring 14 others before being shot dead by police.

Details of Diagne's Online Posts

In the days since the Austin shooting, investigators and commentators have been combing through Diagne's posts on X, where he previously derided Donald Trump as a 'shameless clown' and proclaimed that the 'Islamic revolution is eternal and here to stay'.

Authorities believe the attack at Buford's Backyard Beer Garden in downtown Austin was an act of terrorism linked to events thousands of miles away.

According to RadarOnline's account of law‑enforcement briefings, investigators suspect Diagne carried out the shooting in retaliation for joint United States and Israeli airstrikes earlier the same day that killed Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Witnesses and officials say Diagne arrived at the bar wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with the words 'Property of Allah'. Underneath, he is reported to have had on a T‑shirt showing Iran's flag under the Islamic regime. Police later found a copy of the Quran in the car he drove to the scene.

A Closer Look of His Arrival to US

Investigators have also been piecing together his path to the United States. AP News reports, according to the Department of Homeland Security, Diagne first arrived in the United States in 2000 on a B‑2 tourist visa and obtained lawful permanent residency six years later after marrying a US citizen.

The department said he went on to become a naturalised US citizen in 2013, while several people briefed on the investigation, who requested anonymity because they were not authorised to speak publicly, confirmed that he was originally from Senegal.

Diagne left behind a trail of incendiary posts on X attacking Israel, Jews and women, while promoting the spread of Islam with apocalyptic language. In December 2025, he used the platform to call then‑President Donald Trump 'a shameless clown'.

His X profile, created in October 2024, appears to have been uniformly political or religious from the outset.

Austin Shooting Sparks Online Vitriol And Counter‑Extremism

A year after opening his account, he directed his attacks at MAGA journalist Laura Loomer after she called for a crackdown on Sharia law. His replies were laced with misogynistic abuse and antisemitic slurs.

'Free ride is coming to an end, you and your Israel acolytes fake jews know it, so melt down all you want you ugly b-----,' he wrote in one response, according to screenshots. In another, he told her, 'Shut the f--- up you Israel first w----, move to Israel you f------ b----.'

Loomer, who is outspokenly pro‑Israel and 'vehemently against Islam's rapid expansion into the West', has seized on the attack to amplify her own agenda. On 2 March, she shared an image on X of a blood‑stained sweatshirt bearing the word 'Allah', said to have been worn by Diagne at the time of the Austin shooting. Her caption read, 'Deport all Muslims from America. DENATURALIZE Muslim citizens in America.'

Austin Shooting Suspect Turned Fury On

In October 2025, shortly after a ceasefire was agreed to halt fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, Ivanka Trump posted a message thanking her father, writing: 'I want to thank my father @realDonaldTrump for his unbending leadership in bringing real hope for lasting peace to a region that has known so much pain and heartbreak.'

Diagne's reaction was blunt and uncompromising. 'They think they can turn GAZA into a real estate development; they are mistaken,' he wrote back. 'The atrocities of the settlers occupying Palestine will come to an end just like apartheid South Africa.'

In April 2025, he responded to a post from Iran's foreign minister, Seyed Abbas Araghchi, who had criticised Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu's influence over US policy. Diagne replied, 'THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION IS ETERNAL AND HERE TO STAY UNTIL THE END OF TIME. You Zionist and islamophobes can be angry all you want but you can't do a damn thing about it, no matter what.'