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
I’m not going to expand on this because it’s too much to type here, way off topic, etc. but I experienced an attempted murder of myself (one of many people shot directly at by someone- I wasn’t struck, but it was a mass casualty event including deaths). I have diagnosed PTSD from that event. I suspect almost everyone there that day including first responders afterwards probably have it PTSD.
Dealing with friends, family, etc. asking a billion times what happened right after (some for caring reasons, a lot for morbid curiosity which I don’t totally fault people for) was really tiring. “Oh you’re so lucky” and other such sentiments constantly expressed. “God was with you!” Like literally just a normal person version of all the stuff people say about Trump’s shooting. I cannot imagine feeling compelled to immediately speak about it publicly every day basically with such specificity and allusions to “wow! Just a few inches, huh?!” all the time.
All that said, couldn’t happen to a worse person. I recognize Trump has humanity as we all do, but he doesn’t recognize that about millions if not billions of others on this planet. So, I hope they keep asking him questions about it.
If it were me personally, a question that would suck to keep hearing would be like “how do you feel that others died that day while you hid and then ran away?” If someone from CBS or something could just pepper that one in, I think we might legitimately see a crying Trump on TV. Or maybe he’d go silent in disbelief and internal emotions. Maybe he’d be fine. I dunno. I wanna see it though.
I’m not going to expand on this because it’s too much to type here, way off topic, etc. but I experienced an attempted murder of myself (one of many people shot directly at by someone- I wasn’t struck, but it was a mass casualty event including deaths). I have diagnosed PTSD from that event. I suspect almost everyone there that day including first responders afterwards probably have it PTSD.
I’m very sorry to hear that. An experience like that is incredibly harrowing and can set itself on your core for a long while. I hope you have people around that you can rely on when it all is too much <3
All that said, couldn’t happen to a worse person. I recognize Trump has humanity as we all do, but he doesn’t recognize that about millions if not billions of others on this planet. So, I hope they keep asking him questions about it.
Yeah I feel no sympathy for him and it couldn’t have happened to a worse guy. I just felt the need to comment about it, because I’ve seen people elsewhere say variations of “wow what a loser, he should just toughen up.” and I think that line needs to be squashed.
I hope they keep asking him about it too.
If it were me personally, a question that would suck to keep hearing would be like “how do you feel that others died that day while you hid and then ran away?” If someone from CBS or something could just pepper that one in, I think we might legitimately see a crying Trump on TV. Or maybe he’d go silent in disbelief and internal emotions. Maybe he’d be fine. I dunno. I wanna see it though.
Have you seen the clip of that streamer gifting him a cybertruk wrapped in the fistpump photo? Very funny.
Is there more than just him walking out and see the truck? He does kinda look like “wow. They really can’t stop bringing this up. Wow. Incredible.”
I’ve heard him being asked by Adin and Elon (separately of course) about the shooting and they seem all giddy to ask and he goes along with it but to me I almost do feel a little bad for a second. Like just on a human level… this guy did almost get shot and all these clown-asses are running around like “wow Mr president tell us what happened! Did you know your brain almost got liquidated? Isn’t that fucking sick, man?!” I guess it’s because they don’t view him as a person, which I’d understand, but it’s more likely they’ve never encountered anything that truly terrified them like that. I guess people still operate on the old school type belief like “well, he didn’t get physically harmed (much) so he’s fine.” Which any modern psychologist or therapist or anything along those lines would immediately shut down like “no. That was a traumatic event for him and everyone there that day whether they recognize it or not and whether they experience any sort of reaction immediately after or long after or never. Everyone handles this stuff differently.”
The only humorous part to all of it is of course right wingers love to pretend mental health doesn’t matter and if you have significant responses to something like that you’re just “being a pussy” or whatever. So Trump is forced to basically suck it up, suffer, and endure all the clowns dancing around him. It’s legitimately funny. He can never go on tv and talk about how his heart races now when he hears a loud noise or his palms are sweaty going on stage or whatever he might have going on. He has to say he is unbothered, it was a tremendous thing, wow, a horrible thing, but tremendous, and just wow. Wow, folks. Wow.
I’m not going to expand on this because it’s too much to type here, way off topic, etc. but I experienced an attempted murder of myself (one of many people shot directly at by someone- I wasn’t struck, but it was a mass casualty event including deaths). I have diagnosed PTSD from that event. I suspect almost everyone there that day including first responders afterwards probably have it PTSD.
Dealing with friends, family, etc. asking a billion times what happened right after (some for caring reasons, a lot for morbid curiosity which I don’t totally fault people for) was really tiring. “Oh you’re so lucky” and other such sentiments constantly expressed. “God was with you!” Like literally just a normal person version of all the stuff people say about Trump’s shooting. I cannot imagine feeling compelled to immediately speak about it publicly every day basically with such specificity and allusions to “wow! Just a few inches, huh?!” all the time.
All that said, couldn’t happen to a worse person. I recognize Trump has humanity as we all do, but he doesn’t recognize that about millions if not billions of others on this planet. So, I hope they keep asking him questions about it.
If it were me personally, a question that would suck to keep hearing would be like “how do you feel that others died that day while you hid and then ran away?” If someone from CBS or something could just pepper that one in, I think we might legitimately see a crying Trump on TV. Or maybe he’d go silent in disbelief and internal emotions. Maybe he’d be fine. I dunno. I wanna see it though.
I’m very sorry to hear that. An experience like that is incredibly harrowing and can set itself on your core for a long while. I hope you have people around that you can rely on when it all is too much <3
Yeah I feel no sympathy for him and it couldn’t have happened to a worse guy. I just felt the need to comment about it, because I’ve seen people elsewhere say variations of “wow what a loser, he should just toughen up.” and I think that line needs to be squashed.
I hope they keep asking him about it too.
Have you seen the clip of that streamer gifting him a cybertruk wrapped in the fistpump photo? Very funny.
Is there more than just him walking out and see the truck? He does kinda look like “wow. They really can’t stop bringing this up. Wow. Incredible.”
I’ve heard him being asked by Adin and Elon (separately of course) about the shooting and they seem all giddy to ask and he goes along with it but to me I almost do feel a little bad for a second. Like just on a human level… this guy did almost get shot and all these clown-asses are running around like “wow Mr president tell us what happened! Did you know your brain almost got liquidated? Isn’t that fucking sick, man?!” I guess it’s because they don’t view him as a person, which I’d understand, but it’s more likely they’ve never encountered anything that truly terrified them like that. I guess people still operate on the old school type belief like “well, he didn’t get physically harmed (much) so he’s fine.” Which any modern psychologist or therapist or anything along those lines would immediately shut down like “no. That was a traumatic event for him and everyone there that day whether they recognize it or not and whether they experience any sort of reaction immediately after or long after or never. Everyone handles this stuff differently.”
The only humorous part to all of it is of course right wingers love to pretend mental health doesn’t matter and if you have significant responses to something like that you’re just “being a pussy” or whatever. So Trump is forced to basically suck it up, suffer, and endure all the clowns dancing around him. It’s legitimately funny. He can never go on tv and talk about how his heart races now when he hears a loud noise or his palms are sweaty going on stage or whatever he might have going on. He has to say he is unbothered, it was a tremendous thing, wow, a horrible thing, but tremendous, and just wow. Wow, folks. Wow.