President Trump said Friday that Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be killed by firing squad, adding he will decide whether to livestream the execution.

Standing at the White House, President Donald Trump answered reporters without hesitation on the fate of Nidal Malik Hasan. The Fort Hood shooter, Trump said, will face death.

Trump made plain that the method is settled. Hasan “will be killed” by firing squad, he stated, after first noting he would still weigh any livestream request.

Trump told reporters, “I’m going to make a determination about that, but he will be killed.”

"He will be, through firing squad. He killed 13, 14 people, badly wounded 20-some odd people, and he’s totally nuts. So I really don’t care how he goes as long as he goes. And I think that the death penalty is a very worthy way of going for him."

Those numbers come straight from the president’s own accounting of the attack. Hasan murdered soldiers on a U.S. Army base and left more than twenty others badly hurt. Trump treated the death penalty as the fitting answer, not a question open for soft alternatives.

Readers tracking the case already know the stakes from earlier reporting on Trump’s firing squad approval.

The president left no room for delay talk or mercy pleas. He framed the penalty as earned. Hasan’s crimes were mass murder against troops who wore the same uniform he once did. Trump’s words put the focus back on the victims and the cost of letting such a killer remain alive.

Questions about public viewing of the sentence remain open for now. Trump said only that he would make the call himself. The core decision is already locked: Hasan dies by firing squad.

That clarity lands amid continued interest in how the military handles the final steps, including coverage of the Fort Hood killer’s firing squad path.

Trump’s stance rejects the long habit of treating capital cases as endless process. He stated the death penalty is “a very worthy way of going” for a man who slaughtered and maimed so many. The remark was blunt. It matched the scale of the original crime.

Capital punishment debates surface often in other states as well. Recent examples include Florida’s rare double execution and separate questions over lethal injection failures.

What Trump refused to do was treat Hasan as anything other than a convicted mass killer who must answer fully. He did not hedge on the method. He did not invite fresh legal theater. He simply restated that the shooter will be killed and that firing squad is how it happens.

Public access to the moment itself is the only remaining piece under review. The president kept that determination in his own hands while closing the door on any outcome short of death.

Related reporting has also examined plans for the Pentagon livestream decision and contrasting cases such as when Tennessee halted executions after a failed injection.

Soldiers died at Fort Hood because one man turned his weapon on them. Trump’s Friday comments returned the story to that basic fact and to the only penalty that answers it.

Justice for murdered troops is not complicated. When the guilty finally face the full price, the country is safer and the dead are honored.