The former president has viewed the seven-second clip, in which his right ear was grazed with a bullet, multiple times, according to a Republican source close to his campaign
Donald Trump has watched a video clip of the attempt on his life at a Pennsylvania rally “over and over again,” leading to fears that he may be suffering from PTSD, according to a report.
The former president has viewed the “seven-second” clip, in which his right ear was grazed with a bullet, multiple times – an act which has not helped a reported mental spiral brought on by Joe Biden’s decision to drop out of the 2024 race.
He doesn't have trauma, he is watching because that was the moment everyone told him he won the election. It was his glory moment and he wants to relive it because he fears it slipping away. Spare me this disingenuous sympathy plea.
If it were anyone else it's not a stretch to say nearly being killed would shake a normal person and cause some trauma. With Trump on the other hand that behavior seems almost masturbatory, like he is trying to re-live the moment where he was the center of attention
Someone pointed out that he has always had a paranoia about people harming him. For instance, preferring takeout to avoid poisoning. He has played a very dangerous game with very serious players as a property developer, and in the process has made a lot of enemies.
So yeah, one of his greatest fears was realized. What other fears lurk just past the penumbra of the stage lights? What waits in the wings, should he lose the election? If only he could control things a bit more, maybe get Joe back in the race…
At least he can control the remote, and maybe if he watches his assassination attempt again, he can control that too
And as an event that almost changed everything, it was forgotten about in about 3 days. It is crazy to me how quickly no one gave a fuck that he'd almost been assassinated. It fell off the news cycle before Biden stepped out of the race. I guess once they figured out it was a crazy guy and not politically motivated, no one cared.
Yeah I was like oh shit, Biden is out, someone tried to kill Trump, he's gonna win for sure... and then the response to Kamala's campaign was crazy. It gives me hope.
Trump has been screeching about gun control behind closed doors. It's hard to find information on it because his staffers are understandably keeping that from the media. But he's been screaming about it since he was shot at.
Oh man, can you imagine the shitstorm if the Harris campaign were to get hold of that footage? Imagine the Dems targeting the GOP by saying "look, they want to take your guns!"
Good, fuck him. He is a self-serving narcissist piece of shit. Too bad this didn't happen 30 years ago where he could have done a 180 and not turned into the waste of air he is today.
Agreed. That bullet never touched him. The real victim's blood spatter is what we saw on his cheek. The man who was actually shot was just feet behind Trump, within range of that small spatter from a high velocity projectile.
Joe stepping down looking better all the time. It's like when J Cole apologized for dissing Kendrick, people were mixed until everyone realized, "hoooly shit thank god he did that"
Drake and Kendrick were friendly - ish - around 10 years ago but they've been souring since then.
Drake and J Cole recently collaborated on a song, First Person Shooter.
Kendrick Lamar threw the first recent punch with a line on Like That that specifically calls out Drake and J Cole about that song.
J Cole released a diss track in response, 7 Minute Drill, went to bed, woke up, and then decided he didn't want the smoke and removed himself from the situation and removed the song from streaming services. Drake took the bait and released Pushups and Taylor Made Freestyle (which he's being sued for for other reasons).
I'm just gonna quote the wiki article for the next part:
In response, Lamar released "Euphoria" on April 30 and "6:16 in LA" on May 3. Drake responded with "Family Matters" later that day, accusing Lamar of being a domestic abuser and alleging that one of Lamar's children was fathered by Dave Free. Roughly twenty minutes later, Lamar released "Meet the Grahams", accusing Drake of sex trafficking, being a sexual predator, and fathering another secret child. Lamar then released "Not Like Us" the following day, further accusing Drake of pedophilia and disrespecting the rap scene. On May 5, Drake responded with "The Heart Part 6", denying Lamar's accusations and claiming that his team gave Lamar false information about the secret child. A music video for "Not Like Us" was later released on July 4.
After seeing what Kendrick did to Drake, it is popularly believed that J Cole made the correct move. J Cole managed to neatly sidestep this entire beef and let Kendrick hit Drake with a biblical level smackdown.
5.56mm is a very tiny bullet. The damage would come from traveling very fast, which is very bad when it hits a fleshy mass.
Thankfully (for Trump and perhaps for America not turning him into a MAGA martyr) the ear isn't very fleshy so the bullet didn't impart much energy. He certainly had plastic surgery to fix the tiny hole.
Personally, I much prefer to watch Trump deflate and be crushed under the support of Harris and Walz.
Imagine an interviewer made this comment, and Donnie going on a rant for the next week how his ear is "actually really fleshy, very fleshy, actually more fleshy, Kamabla's ears are like paper... Really fleshy..."
ABC News: The U.S. Secret Service is making arrangements for former Pres. Trump to resume outdoor campaign rallies by surrounding his podium with bulletproof glass
Hes probably watchin the video over and over again while thinking how great it would have been for his campaign if he had actually gotten shot, instead of whatever he claims to have happened to his so-fast-its-magic healing ear
Considering he's doing his future outdoors events in a glass box, I'm leaning PTSD. I think he finally realized he's mortal, in a very real sense, and is coming to grips with that. I have no doubt he's coming apart at the seams.
not cause the shooting (well, not entirely, it plays a small point at the end of a very long chain), but because he is a Narcissistic control freak who grew up inside a comfortable bubble of yes men, sycophants, and brown nosers, Where he never heard criticism, he never heard "no". All he heard was "Yes, boss" " Thats brilliant, boss!" "You're a genius!".. Until he decided to run for President. A run he only made for attention and fame, not because he wanted to win (There were many leaks from his camp about how furious and upset he was that he won in the days following).. But Win he did, and that win popped his bubble... Because no matter how many sycophants and yesmen he surrounded himself with, he was getting constant, blistering criticism as president, especially with covid. Constantly hitting walls and being told no he isnt allowed to do This or That. He became a man who lost all his power to do anything except put himself infront of a Camera and speak. And Speak he did, almost daily, moaning and groaning about how everything was so unfair to him, relishing the adoration he was getting from vast swathes of people he wouldnt under any other circumstances give two shits about (and still doesnt, He just likes to see and hear the praise, so he can feel like hes in his safe little bubble again).
But as bad as all that was, he then had the next election, Which he lost. Humiliatingly so, in his eyes. And that so aggrieved him that he fell face first into what he has been slowly tumbling through, with greater extremity, for the past four years.. a narcissistic meltdown. Hes lost his power, his money, his authority, his everything. His crowds are smaller, the coverage is less often and less favorable, and now the last link in the chain of events is being shot at, by a voter of his no less.. and he didnt even get significantly hurt from it (If at all, cause we all know if he was actually hit in the ear he'd have that bandage of raging about being disfigured), which pushed his narcissistic meltdown off the edge and into overdrive.
Hes not having mental decline. Hes not panicked from the shooting.
Hes just a big ball of nebulous narcicistic rage, insecure and lashing out at the world that he thinks took everything from him... because he could never, ever, be in any of these situations by his own making. It has to be everyone elses fault. /s
Cause remember, the only prayer trump knows is this one
Where did you get the impression that words like covfefe and Kamabla were tweeted with full focus, stable, decent, ergonomic sitting pose and both hands dry?
Sometimes people create media of themselves. I recently did a photoshoot with an Onlyfans model that I suspect I'll use sometime in the future. ☺ So yeah, it's not that surprising that people sometimes Masturbate to their own photos.
Fuck Trump but I hope he's able to get the help he needs. He increased funding for VA including finding for PTSD (funding has increased since Obama, maybe even before that, and that's a great thing).
He got the Republican party by the gonads trying to stay out of prison but he's dragging them all down with him. And if he leaves the race, many MAGAts will be Very Upset™, maybe disband, and he'll hopefully face sweet retribution. I'm starting to think the best thing he ever did for the American people was not die.