On October 16, 2026, Donald Trump said the December 3 firing squad execution of Nidal Hassan, convicted of killing 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, will not be livestreamed, reversing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's plan. The reversal followed bipartisan and papal backlash, and a national poll found 80% opposed the broadcast. The discussion now turns on why Trump changed course: whether that pressure and the poll drove it, or, as other accounts have it, his learning during advisor conversations that Hassan is paralyzed from the waist down and uses a wheelchair. The stated reasons remain contested.