Trump watches himself get shot ‘over and over’ and campaign staff fear he has PTSD: report

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independent.co.uk

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.

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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.

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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.

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

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!

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 suspected that would happen. It's like that time he got COVID and almost died. Huge story at the time, now people barely remember.

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.

We decided as a nation that people getting shot wasn't worth getting excited about decades ago.

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."

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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.

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!"

I hear People are talking about Trump discussing it. The best people.

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 council Supreme Court.

He's already said "Take the guns first, then go through due process second" and none of them batted an eye

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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.

PTSD can happen to anyone, even someone as narcissistic as Trump.

He's got the best PTSD. Lots of people are saying it.

He has spoken to many many smart people, experts, they are called. At least that is what he calls them. They know a lot of PTSD, he knows all about PTSD, those ex-perts know more. They asked him, how does he have such good PTSD. He told them, he didn't know, he just does. They are shocked at how good his PTSD is. Remarkable, they call it. Sleepy Joe Bi-den doesn't even have PTSD. He couldn't, and if he did, Lord God King President Donald J Trump knows it would be poor. And his diversity hire? Not even worth mentioning. What a loser.

Mental illness isn't something I really find funny joking about, even with Trump. It's not a good look.

I consider that less making fun of people suffering PTSD and more making fun of that idiot's narcissistic need for embellishment and to be seen as the best despite all evidence to the contrary.

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.

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"

oh my god and now harris is "Not Like Us"ing the vance/trump ticket into the ground by hammering on how weird they are

we got fucking foreshadowing this season

Wait I don't follow this stuff - what's the tea on this?

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.

Thank you! Especially appreciate the commentary below the wiki article - otherwise I'm not sure I would know who's "winning" or "losing" in that mess.

Even if no one wins, sounds like he won by not playing.

That's the general consensus, yeah. Kendrick wins the actual beef but J Cole wins the most out of all three of them by just not being present.

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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

NOW Hannibal Lecter comes to mind.,,

This is how the rest of us feel about footage from January 6.

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.

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

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..."

Good

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 covfefe and Kamabla were 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.

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.

Of course hes coming apart at the seems.

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

  • That didn’t happen.
  • And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
  • And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
  • And if it is, that’s not my fault.
  • And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
  • And if I did, you deserved it.

~Narcissists Prayer.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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).

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