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.
This is how the rest of us feel about footage from January 6.
probably just jerking off. I have a few videos i always go back to for that. But i am usually not in them myself.
Usually?
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.
Presidents that give up their pay check and get shot are the biggest suckers and losers.
Can someone spread a credible-sounding rumour that due to this shooting Trump is considering a ban on guns?
It would be the death of MAGA, as they internally wrestle their love of guns for their fanatic support of Trump.
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.
I hear People are talking about Trump discussing it. The best people.
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!”
PACs should run that non stop in stronghold counties to depress turnout
He’s already said “Take the guns first, then go through due process second” and none of them batted an eye
he’s already attempted to ban bump stocks, which is more of an attempt than biden
They were effectively banned for 6 years, only to have the ruling overturned this year by the
evil councilSupreme Court.“Take the guns first, go through due process second”
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-take-firearms-first/
He’s a fascist and wants to be a dictator, it shouldn’t be surprising.
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.
they’re looking for sympathy? where can i email 10 mb of laughing emoji?
I heard HamsterDanceButInsteadLaughingEmojiI.mpg.biz.exe.sh.com is how Iran hacked them.
I think him wearing an oversized bandage for as long as he did supports your hypothesis.
Are we talking about Trump’s make-believe “bandage” made of printer paper and scotch tape?
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.
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).
I like presidents who weren’t shot at.
Guy with no empathy seeks some, finds none.
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
He doesn’t have PTSD he has a victim complex and a god complex fighting to figure out what the next profoundly stupid thing he will say or do.
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.
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
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.
shot at
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.
Guys… the picture is right there.
If it was splatter from the man in the crowd, there would have been a wider distribution of smaller globules.
I’ve seen enough pink mist on the internet, man…
I think he was absolutely grazed by the bullet, but it is still hilarious to me that the FBI put out a whole statement saying they won’t confirm it was a real hit. I think the dude is absolutely headstrong enough to keep campaigning after something like that. It can’t have had no effect at all.
Someone on lemmy said that it was probably the shockwave from the bullet rather than the bullet itself which hit him. Pretty sure I also saw something about an FBI statement which seemed to later corroborate that. Ultimately, its not super important. He was shot at, lightly injured, and now he’s spiraling for one reason or another
look at the pics!! that is not a 223 bullet wound.
funny how this left the top of the news so fast. almost suspiciously fast like they didn’t want us to think too hard about it
They might have done that to prevent copycats. If they talked about it non-stop people would think it’s a way to gain infamy. It’s the same reason coverage of mass shootings doesn’t focus on the killer’s name anymore.
Love that for him
Maybe he will campaign for gun control then
I’m sure he’s up for pissing off all the ones that love showing off their guns.
