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.
May his suffering be proportional to that which he’s caused.
There’s no conceivable way on Earth he could sustain that much pain before dying.
That’s a testable hypothesis.
Only testable once.
But I guess we could substitute those who voted to not impeach/remove him from office and those who voted to overturn Roe for additional data.
I mean we can’t just not peer review. Drawing conclusions from a single study?! That’s crazy!
I do think its a worthy experiment
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
TBH, I would believe it.
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
“shot”
I’ve said it before. I do not believe Trump has PTSD. I do, however, believe he is a carrier.
You mean all of us who he gave PTSD by being President for 4 grueling years? Absolutely!
He’s just trying to find proof that the bullet directly hit his ear.
His Doctor lied, you can see the top of the ear still attached in this very picture. Are we sure this isn’t someone else’s blood?
Guy with no empathy seeks some, finds none.
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This is how the rest of us feel about footage from January 6.
Love that for him
Womp womp, what a sad Trumpet.
Man that looks like a pretty intact ear to me…
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.
bull. shit.
Yes it is a narrow caliber, but the weight of the bullet and the amount of powder used to propel it are huge. It is not a 22LR.
that round would not simply poke a hole in your ear, it would remove the outer edges completely.
WHY did this leave the news so quickly? An attempt on a US President is a big deal. ESPECIALLY when the shooter was in their own party
Its not like hitting the fleshy mass of your body or even an appendage though, it pretty much pierced the ear instantly then had nothing to transfer it’s energy into
Biden stepping aside evaporated any sympathy bump, and I for one am fine with that.
Because he missed
An attempt on a president’s life is still gigantic news… Especially when the shooter was one of his own
Its was a big mix of things:
Biden dropped out the week after and dems kept getting their shit together in an astonishing and news worthy way.
The shooter had no manifesto and wasn’t from the opposing side. Based on news, he just wanted to die trying to kill someone important, so it’s a sad thing not a mad thing that cacthes on hard.
Trump’s been drumming up political violence for a decade so people weren’t that surprised some of it finally blew back on him. He also had a non-lethal and largely minor injury.
We also have endless gun violence in our country so people are fatigued by it.
Lastly, people are tired of his endless dysfunction. The media loves it, but people just aren’t suprised some new shitshow has occured in his orbit. His outrageous events aren’t sticking as hard anymore.
the ear isn’t very fleshy
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…”
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Indeed. As long as he is watching those videos, he is not out campaigning or shit-tweeting.
Where did you get the impression that words like
covfefeandKamablawere tweeted with full focus, stable, decent, ergonomic sitting pose and both hands dry?They never were. “with full focus, stable, decent, ergonomic sitting pose and both hands dry”? Hard to imagine with Weird Don, even at the best of his times.
Well maybe he should get therapy…
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… HAHAHAHA sorry, I couldn’t hold it back any more. No he’ll do exactly what you think he’ll do - let it fester into an (additional) mental illness.
Purely psychosomatic.
Addict insane?
Breathe the pressure!
Come play my game, I’ll test ya!
Maybe his ear just did that.
That boy needs therapy
Lie down on the couch? WHADDUSTHATMEAN
It was the high point of his campaign
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.
I’m still thinking about it. Vision and eye care are obviously not good enough in this country.
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.
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Was it entirely NOT politically motivated, though? Has there been anymore word on the shooter?
What I found most interesting is he apparently had pretty good opsec and kept his communications private and encrypted. You don’t usually get that with people who actually commit violent crimes. They usually either loudly tell the undercover FBI agents all about their scheme in a public venue or coordinate over FB Messenger or other extremely obvious opsec fails
No one was inside his head, but he donated to Dems and registered Republican. He googled both Biden and Trump events and seemed to pick the most convenient one. So we can’t know for sure, but none of the evidence points to any particular political motivation, just wanted to go out famous.
The googling part is news to me, hopefully we find more info as we go. I know everyone’s holding their breath waiting for a big reveal of something.
Almost made it.
But you know that if it was a minority or someone on the left, they would have milked that shit until it was desert dry, then try to milk it some more
But instead it was a white guy who seemed to be a republican, or a centrist at best. So, not interesting to talk about
I think it more like they’re afraid of triggering an all out “night of the long knives” situation. The media isn’t stupid. They know Trump’s rhetoric has been leading to violence. It’s just that it’s been directed at the poor and PoC. Now that it’s coming home to them and other elites they’re being careful now.
They did the same thing with the black guy that went on a shooting spree in Dallas because of Ferguson. It was the perfect race baiting story, the shooter was a genuinely mentally ill person who was a hardline black nationalist that attempted to join numerous anti police protest groups and just had that “scary black man look” that Fox News loves.
But once it came out that
1.) He had been ridiculously effective in killing cops using the “shoot and scoot” tactic he learned serving in Iraq. Only being stopped once the police tied a bomb to a robot they sicked after him.
2.) He had killed to hardcore white nationalist police officers, kinda proving his point that the police were a force for black subjugation.
The story seemed to disappear from the headlines over night.
Compare that with the Ft. Hood shooter that was Muslim that Fox News talked about for YEARS after it occurred.
Great post. Same for the Vegas shooter. He was apparently trying to prove a point about mental health and fun control. Nobody said shit.
Also, thought you might like to know it “sicced.”
I suspected that would happen. It’s like that time he got COVID and almost died. Huge story at the time, now people barely remember.
We decided as a nation that people getting shot wasn’t worth getting excited about decades ago.
As soon as it’s clear that something isn’t going to kill him no one cares, he is so unpopular he has crossed some kind of public opinion event horizon.
