No matter your opinion of today's events, Trump is getting what he wished for.

[Arabela]

This is going to dominate the news cycle for days and he's going to be portrayed as an innocent victim by the MSM. And he's going to revel in every minute of it.

As he himself has said:

"It’s all about one thing: ratings. If you have ratings, you can be the meanest, most horrible human being in the world. There’s only one thing that matters: ratings. You can be nice or you can be mean. You can be evil. You can be horrible. You can be crude or elegant. There’s only one thing that matters, and that’s ratings. If you don’t have ratings, it doesn’t matter."
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/trump-media-ratings-biden-drop-out-rcna160264

My sympathies go out to the family of the person that was killed and to all of the other attendees that were traumatized by this tragic event, but I'm not wasting any of my time feeling sorry for Trump. He's not a victim, he creates them. He is and will always be a rapist; a convicted felon; an inciter of an attempted coup on the US government; someone who falsified business records so he could pay less taxes; someone who constantly spews hateful rhetoric against immigrants; etc., etc., etc.

After the doctor's slap a Bandaid on his ear, he's going to place himself on center stage and milk this for all it's worth. Because that's what he does.

[Ocelot II]

1. In the meantime, the *Biden Is Too Old* whining will fall by the wayside.

And Dems can use it to promote gun control. A mixed bag, I think.

[BigmanPigman]

3. I agree

[MacKasey]

6. That's what I was thinking

Get a bill on gun control and make the magats have to vote on it

[LeftInTX]

23. He'll go with: "I'm a strongman" meme

I hope he has a concussion. Maybe he will talk in drunk slow motion during his acceptance speech.
A girl can dream.

[democratsruletheday]

2. So friggin' WHAT?

he's always in the news cycle and he's still a POS. He's still dangerous and this doesn't move the needle toward him IMO, even IF it's a "liberal" that took the shots. Simply won't sway indies toward Trump whatsoever. Didn't work for Teddy Roosevelt when he got shot or Gerald Ford. Bottom line.

[uponit7771]

5. "Gerald Ford" WOW !!! Didn't know this...damn every president got shot at back then

[Innocent Smith]

12. Ford

Squeaky Fromm (spelling) the Charles Mason girl. And also, Betty (something), who shot at Ford in Sacramento in 1975. Dates and locs are from memory and may be off. But I do remember Ford being shot at twice within a short period of time.

[appmanga]

15. You are correct...

...there were two assassination attempts against Ford while he was running for re-election. And the second woman's name doesn't immediately come to mind because of Fromme's Manson connection.

[valleyrogue]

17. Sara Jane Moore, who is still alive at 94, is who you are thinking of. n/t

[Innocent Smith]

18. Right

That's it. I just remember her looking like she could have come out of a typical 1950s tv housewife.

[Rhiannon12866]

22. I was also old enough to remember President Ford getting shot twice

And I remember thinking at the time, who hates Gerald Ford??

[Quixote1818]

20. Ford had two atempts

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/president-ford-survives-second-assassination-attempt

[LeftInTX]

24. It happened a year before the 1976 election. Also Squeaky Fromme got more attention than Ford.

Here is how she was dressed that day



And here are her friends

[Arabela]

9. I sure hope you're right.

It would be tragic if he got any kind of a bump for this. Biden's been building momentum and I don't want anything to take away from that.

[Arabesque]

21. Thank you

I completely agree, Arabella! And I love your puppy . Signed Coltie’s mom.

[uponit7771]

4. He's still hot garbage, getting shot doesn't change that

[bdamomma]

7. hmm.....

the narrative has changed though, Project 2025 should not be forgotten. We've been concentrating on that haven't we????? Let's keep thinking about the manifesto.

[DemocraticPatriot]

8. Yep. He'll "wave the bloody shirt" for all it may be worth---

and probably start selling "bloody Trump shirts"

[Ocelot II]

19. I was just going to say, he'll have the shirt cut up into little pieces

and sell the pieces to the rubes, even the pieces without any blood, but the bloody bits will command top dollar. Unless TFG doesn't want his DNA out there...

[elleng]

10. Right, ATTENTION.

[yourout]

11. And the Epstein logs will conveniently fade..

To the background.

[SoFlaBro]

13. Fuck that Orange Bastard. He is a piss-soaked fuckstain.

[LastDemocratInSC]

14. "What he wished for" is so true.

He wants to be seen in a martyr / savior drama that culminates next week in Milwaukee. And just think about this: You know he will flaunt some kind of bandage on his ear during the weekend and next week. And, hey, if videos of that martyr / bandage angle gets good numbers maybe he can just keep the bandage on for a few weeks, so long as he changes it periodically. He could even sell shards of his bandages to his rubes as relics of this day and time.

[Arabela]

16. So true.

All of the Republicans at the convention are going to fawn all over him, even more so than they already do. They're going to feed his already oversized ego. He's probably going to start believing being shot at is the best thing that could've happened to him, without any thought for the person that was killed or the people that were injured.