Trump to name trusted Secret Service agent as director of the entire agency: Report

President Donald Trump will announce Sean Curran as the head of Secret Service, according to several media sources that all cite CNN as the source.

Curran is pictured above helping Trump leave the stage in Butler, Penn. after the president was shot during a rally last summer. As presumed incoming director of the Secret Service, he is someone who Trump trusts.

Curran has led Trump’s security detail for the past four years and has supervised about 85 people in that detail.

Acting Director Ronald Rowe replaced Director Kim Cheatle, who resigned after the first major assassination attempt on Trump’s life in July of 2024. He has lobbied for the job, according to reports.

A second known attempt on Trump’s life was made in September, when an assassin snuck into position outside of Trump International Golf Club.

For two years prior to the two assassination attempts, the Secret Service denied the requests of Trump for added security. When confronted with that allegation, the Secret Service then lied about it, but later sources inside the service admitted it was factual to the New York Times.

The Secret Service is one of the nation’s oldest federal investigative law enforcement agencies.

Founded in 1865 as a branch of the U.S. Treasury Department, it was created to combat the counterfeiting of U.S. currency. It’s estimated that following the Civil War, between a third and half of all currency in the U.S. was counterfeit.

In 1901, following the assassination of President William McKinley in Buffalo, N.Y., the Secret Service was tasked an additional mission, and the one it is now known for: Protecting the president.

Critics will pounce on Curran’s lack of experience managing an agency the size of the Secret Service, which employs some 3,200 special agents, 1,300 uniformed division officers, and more than 2,000 other technical, professional and administrative support personnel.

But Trump is probably more interested in having someone at the agency who he trusts, especially after the assassination attempts he has lived through under the Biden era, when the Secret Service started emphasizing D.E.I. — Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion — and took criticism for not putting enough appropriate resources in place to protect presidents and presidential candidates. Under the Biden Administration, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was denied service protection while he was a presidential candidate even though his father, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and uncle, President John F. Kennedy, had both been assassinated.