Trump watches himself get shot ‘over and over’ and staff fear he has PTSD: report
www.independent.co.uk
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

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.

  • CobblerScholar@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    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

    • SirSamuel@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      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

    • MagicShel@programming.dev
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      3 months ago

      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.

      • jonne@infosec.pub
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        3 months ago

        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.

        • Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          3 months 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.

      • RadicallyBland@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        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.

        • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
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          3 months ago

          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

        • MagicShel@programming.dev
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          3 months ago

          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.

          • NJSpradlin@lemmy.world
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            3 months ago

            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.

      • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        3 months 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

        • SeattleRain@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          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.

  • TipRing@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    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.

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    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

    • _stranger_@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      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.

      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        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.

  • EnderMB@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    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.

      • netvor@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        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?

        • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          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.

      • Death_Equity@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        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.

        • meco03211@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          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.

  • LaterRedditor@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    probably just jerking off. I have a few videos i always go back to for that. But i am usually not in them myself.

      • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        3 months ago

        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.

    • ours@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      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.

      • 4lan@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        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

          • 4lan@lemmy.world
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            3 months ago

            An attempt on a president’s life is still gigantic news… Especially when the shooter was one of his own

            • mosiacmango@lemm.ee
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              3 months ago

              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.