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(984 posts)Just wasn't that good.
usonian
(26,116 posts)My mom used to say to me: "You're such a pessimist, but dammit, you're always right."
It's THAT kind of world.
yellow dahlia
(6,284 posts)popsdenver
(2,461 posts)this really stinks....in oh so many ways...........and He and the Republicans had oh so many reasons to pull another stunt......
And many subtle things are coming out in his speechifying that reek of Bullshit Grandstanding.......Including once again, divulging secret information that probably made the Secret Service cringe.....did you notice that???????
He needed to do something.....he was definitely going to get roasted, which is typical and after his last IRAN diversion that moved the Epstein/Trump horror off the front page, and it was returning, he desperately needed something........He even got a plug in for his Ballroom.......
yellow dahlia
(6,284 posts)It ticked so many boxes - sympathy; distraction; ballroom promotion.
usonian
(26,116 posts)Friends, Reporters, Secret Service, lend me an ear.
jmbar2
(8,073 posts)Rebl2
(17,873 posts)Very odd thing for her to say. Did she know this was going to happen in advance?
Fiendish Thingy
(23,629 posts)Orrex
(67,284 posts)Cirsium
(4,004 posts)It is not necessarily a case of either A) some grand conspiracy or a staged event or B) nothing to see here, folks, move along.
usonian
(26,116 posts)copy and paste:
Important Announcement to Iran.
Open the Straight and give us all your uranium or I shoot!!

(pointing slightly above his ear)
More likely he farts like the campfire scene in Blazing Saddles.
Video not linked here.
Grim Chieftain
(1,911 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(16,966 posts)But I just don't buy this.
Grim Chieftain
(1,911 posts)but there is so much in these supposed attempts on Trump's life that just don't add up.
Where this criminal administration is concerned, question everything, doubt nothing.
MustLoveBeagles
(16,966 posts)returnee
(953 posts)The state we are in summed up perfectly and must be repeated constantly. Thank you!
hamsterjill
(17,692 posts)Ho-hum....
Johnny2X2X
(24,352 posts)Staged. Again.
mysteryowl
(9,349 posts)His ear healed in like a few days or something.
I can't wait until this is all over and we can begin the repair work of this country.
Seinan Sensei
(1,604 posts)He perseverates about EVERYTHING
He rehashes, revisits, and ruminates about the slightest cut, the tiniest affront, perceived or real.
Butler PA was (supposedly) an attempted assassination
Yet
nothing?
Doesnt fit
Doesnt add-up
OMGWTF
(5,189 posts)GenThePerservering
(3,570 posts)ecstatic
(35,119 posts)This guy never intended to speak tonight. Just more emotional abuse from the so called president.
Kid Berwyn
(24,803 posts)Horrible horrible thugs the Liquor Cabinet.
djacq
(1,782 posts)How many, more than one, assassination attempts were made on any president in history?
Aviation Pro
(15,685 posts)..
sarisataka
(22,763 posts)Ford actually had three attempts/plots
Clinton-5, Bush II- 2, Obama-12, Biden-2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots#Other_attacks,_assassination_attempts,_and_plots
EdmondDantes_
(1,978 posts)appleannie1
(5,474 posts)WiVoter
(1,668 posts)Should have been roped off. I just got home, so I have a lot to catch up on. Why did they continue after this event? Or did they continue with the WHCD?
appleannie1
(5,474 posts)OMGWTF
(5,189 posts)EX500rider
(12,660 posts)SheltieLover
(81,390 posts)tritsofme
(19,929 posts)Some people are eager to swallow the official story no matter how preposterous.
B.See
(8,659 posts)Last edited Sun Apr 26, 2026, 11:17 PM - Edit history (1)
cause I was watching much better material like Storage Wars (speaking of which, rip Daryl) and House Hunters. Was determined NOT to pay this CD hoopla ANY mind.
Now, GLAD I didn't. Their felon AntiChrist is tanking in the polls, floundering in his war, and his MAGAS set to lose their asses off.
So, yeah... what a coinkidink.
Sick of their shit.
appleannie1
(5,474 posts)B.See
(8,659 posts)I'd lay odds he's a Trumper.
AllaN01Bear
(29,739 posts)BattleRow
(2,634 posts)Call them piggy,a disgrace?
He needed them as props following tonights performance event.
GenThePerservering
(3,570 posts)marble falls
(72,325 posts)NNguyenMD
(1,332 posts)Catherine Vincent
(34,611 posts)Just when the Butler incident was gaining speed with maga, this happens.
TBF
(36,952 posts)state of stupid
(172 posts)but when it comes to Trump as the old adage goes, do not believe everything you hear,
and only half of what you see. The asshole lies too much for me to believe that he would
not stage this to try and get sympathy and to reconstitute his standing among the faithful.
Fuck him and the horse he rode in on, the only thing I regret is most of these people had piss
poor planning skills, if this was really their intent and not some staged event!
live love laugh
(16,447 posts)GiqueCee
(4,525 posts)... Trump's favorite pejorative words and phrases, Like "Low IQ", "No talent", "You're a terrible reporter", "A threat to the country", "The failing whatever"... well, the list is long. The point being, any insults or threats that get a reaction, he will use over and over and over again. The very probably staged Butler, PA assassination attempt and the miraculously fast-healing ear. Well, yeah, too bad about the guy behind him that died, but that made the whole thing more convincing, didn't it? And no, he never expressed condolences to the guy's family. If he had, he would have turned it into a public performance ratings! and it would have been reported on incessantly.
He is a depraved creature utterly devoid of empathy for other people. For Christ's sake, he's bragged about it more that a few times! Like the time at some dinner event where an older gentleman tripped and banged his head, bleeding profusely. Trump considered it an affront, and left the room. He didn't want wounded veterans in his parade because "it wasn't a good look" for him. Only recently, we all saw him totally ignore a guy behind him in the Oval Office who passed out. Everyone else in the room rushed to assist the stricken man; Trump never even bothered to turn around. He just stood there, looking annoyed because attention wasn't focused on him.
But back to his repetition of anything that he perceives as working for him: Assassination attempts worked wonders for him. The optics of raising his fist while his ear appeared to bleed was a home run in his fevered imagination, so if something works, then work it to death!
Sane people are aghast at the thought that the President would do such a horrible thing, but get this through your heads: TRUMP IS A HORRIBLE PERSON! He has no conscience, and therefore, not the slightest concern for how his words and actions affect other people. He literally could not care less.
So, yeah, I think it's entirely plausible that this whole thing was staged. Granted, there's no proof that it was... yet. But the pattern is true to form, so updates as events warrant.
usonian
(26,116 posts)Chief quality is projection, as in
Every accusation is a confession
Its a real mirror of oneself,

Klarkashton
(5,374 posts)Like the feds do using informants.
Endlessmike56
(219 posts)Trump Delusional Supporter