A Massachusetts father has been arrested by the FBI after threatening to kill Donald Trump in a series of Facebook posts. 

Andrew Emerald, 45, was arrested at his home in Great Barrington on Wednesday morning by FBI agents from the Joint Terrorism Task Force.

He was indicted by a federal grand jury on eight counts of interstate transmission of threatening communications over posts from May to July 2025.

Emerald vowed to put Trump in a ‘f***ing body bag’ and taunted law enforcement in a May 13 post, writing: ‘Do you hear that FBI and any other organization that wants to show up at my f***ing door?’

He claimed the President was a ‘Russian asset’ in another outburst two days later, and on May 30 threatened to burn down Mar-a-Lago. 

‘I’ll make sure you’re at Mar-a-Lago when I burn it to the f***ing ground,’ he wrote.

The rants continued as recently as Tuesday, with Emerald referring to the President as a ‘mad a** authoritarian king.’  

On March 21, he posted a scene from the 2003 action film Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines showing the White House engulfed in flames. 

Andrew Emerald appears in Facebook posts with a young girl presumably his daughter

Emerald posted a scene showing the White House engulfed in flames from the 2003 action film Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines on March 21

Emerald, who appears in Facebook posts alongside a young girl believed to be his daughter, has claimed he does not suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, a term for pathological hatred of the President popularized by his supporters. 

Trump has been repeatedly targeted by political extremists, including two assassination attempts during the last presidential election campaign.

The charge of interstate transmission of threatening communications carries a sentence of up to five years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000.