It may not have been staged, but it shows the complete incompetence of Donny, his Secret Service ( really, 3 attempts?), the FBI & anyone else responsible for security in that hotel
April Ryan was saying this morning that everything was off about the security. She was able to move from floor to floor without using her room key, which she's never been able to do in previous years, even the ones Trump didn't attend. Much less ID checking.
I didn't immediately think it was staged, but after reading the bizarre nothing accounts by the major media I became more and more suspicious. But then that subsided and I realized I didn't care. If Trump was still stumbling around with both his ears, then nah. Did the would-be shooter talk about precious bodily fluids? Just wondering.
I didn't turn my tv on until about 1.5 hrs after it happened. But when I saw the footage & commentary on BBC News, it took me about TEN MIN to see the major HOLES:
1- The footage we're seeing of the "shooter" running past that checkpoint? That was the SECOND checkpoint. Which means he ALREADY MADE IT through the FIRST checkpoint....w/ what? - A LONG GUN, A PISTOL, SEVERAL KNIVES, & NO TICKET? Did he bum-rush the FIRST checkpoint, too? And if so....WHY DIDN'T THEY INFORM THE *SECOND* CHECKPOINT IMMEDIATELY?
2- The people who were IN the ballroom stated that they heard "THREE shots". CNN's Wolf Blitzer was STANDING AT THAT SECOND CHECKPOINT (he'd left the ballroom to go to the restroom, & was on his way back, where he WITNESSED EVERYTHING before eventually being thrown to the floor w/ an officer on top of him). Blitzer said HE heard "FIVE TO EIGHT" shots. WHY THE DIFFERENCE?
3- In light of that ☝️, we know that ONE of those shots hit an officer in his bulletproof vest. WHERE DID THE REST OF THOSE "SHOTS" GO?
4- AND, in light of THAT ☝️, WHY WASN'T THE GUY HIT? Aren't these SecServ & other officers CRACK SHOTS?* UP TO SEVEN OTHER SHOTS were directed at him....& EVERYONE MISSED???
5- While MOST of the attendees were diving under their tables upon hearing those "shots", what was #Bumblefuck doing? TALKING TO THE EVENING'S ENTERTAINMENT, SOME THIRD RATE "MENTALIST"....who HIMSELF ducked under the dias, leaving #Bumblefuck SITTING THERE, *STARING AT THE DUDE'S EMPTY SPACE*, before being PULLED under the dias himself. What's w/ THAT? Is he DEAF? Or did he KNOW HE WAS IN NO DANGER, because it was ALL ARRANGED IN ADVANCE....just like BUTLER, PA WAS? He said over & over, that he was NOT going to attend....then, suddenly, he decided he WAS going. WHY THE LAST MIN CHANGE?
All of that tells me that IT WAS YET ANOTHER PUBLICITY STUNT, to be performed IN FRONT OF AN AUDIENCE HE HATES - THE PRESS. What BETTER way of making himself "A VICTIM, AGAIN"?
And, didn’t he say prior to the event that there was going to be something really special in the event? I don’t remember the exact wording of his comment.
My thought is, Fuckwit is a huge coward. Now, no idea what drugs he was on last night, and no idea how his narcissism plays into it, but 30 minutes after a genuine assassination attempt, I'd think he'd still be hiding under his bed, not giving a speech. But then, his grip on reality IS slipping....
I smell a rat not only for this latest hoax but the Butler fiasco was definitely a setup with the WWE asshat standing next to him and probably gave him the blood capsule when they yelled action
Don't beat yourself up over it. Look at what they are actually ARE doing to people....the concentration camps, the foul immigrant camp conditions, ICE not being prosecuted for outright murder, insider trading in our faces, illegal war, all of the contributing factors. Plenty of people have been injured and killed. Funding cut to needy children out of being pissed at the Pope.Suddenly we are supposed to apologize for being suspicious ? Not me.
For me, the problem with another staged assassination attempt isn’t the lie (that’s perfectly normal for him, and expected). No, it’s the fact that this will rile up the magats and other gullible, ignorant voters, who will rally to support their poor, beleagured president, and show up at the polls to support him and his minions.
I don't think it has been established that he even fired his gun, the security agent may have been hit by cross fire from otjer agents. Ballistics will discern that.
Allen used his shot gun, agents fired bullets, very easy for ballistics to tell the difference between BB type projectiles and bullets , even deformed ones.
Same, till I came to the conclusion that we will never get the true story from the lie house 🏠. Frankly this make me want the Epstein files more to end this regime, period.
I know. I can't believe I am thinking this. I've been arguing against conspiracy theories since Lee Harvey Oswald. And I find myself thinking there was SOMETHING staged about this, even if it was just post-event stories about something that was actually meaningless, like a hotel guest's gun going off accidentally. (It's possible in this "guns for everyone everywhere" country.)
How did he even get a gun in there if they had metal detectors & the heightened security they claim they had? I’m not into conspiracy theories at all, but things about these attempts, 3 now, just aren’t adding up.
Given all of their past shenanigans, especially his miraculous ear regrowth, i can't help but think this was staged too. A # of motivations that come to mind include the promotion of his wasteful, hideous new ballroom , a distraction from his low declining poll numbers and all of his other fuck ups, an excuse not get roasted at the dinner, etc. etc. We have sociopaths running the country, why wouldn't we put this past them.
If your talking about the shooter....he arrived a few days before and checked in like any other guests....he came by train where there are no checks for guns.
credit card. What's wrong with these comments below? Are none of these people Californians? Californians usually have multiple interests, activities. Yes, customer service person, bird watcher, diagnosing and fixing computer glitches, gardener, tutoring.
When you have a leader who openly lies about everything, including things that don't need to be lied about, or are easily proven as lies - you start developing your own "truths"
It suggests that when political outcomes are unfavorable, the blame is directed entirely at Democrats for failing to stop it, rather than at Republicans for initiating it.
This was the clever premise pushed by William F. Buckley as a pioneer of the neocon movement in the '60's. Republicans, the GOP of personal responsibility, loved it.
That first attempt before the election was definitely staged. The saying “fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me” seems fitting. A lot of people are skeptical about this second attempt. Maybe the third time will be the charm. The Benny Hill theme song playing to the Keystone cops video was great!!
I think that is the "second one" and I feel like it shouldn't count. He was just a dude with a gun near Trump when he wasn't president in Florida. I think every man is required by law to have a gun in Florida. He didn't take a shot or anything.
This video was posted in Der Spiegel in an article my friend posted today. It also tells us how little credibility this administration has with Iran and I would say with Germany too.
Even my son, who was a submarine officer in the Navy turned investment banker, was entertaining that it was staged. JD Vance and an assortment of sewer clowns were at the office building he works at in downtown Dallas a few weeks ago and there were swat teams everywhere and the secret service had the building locked down tighter than a tick. And this guy waltzes in the Hilton like it’s nothing?
The Russians offered to stage an assassination attempt on orban, why not with trump? It's not like the idiots in the white house would refuse their help. Besides, they already did it once at Butler and it won them the election.
Yes, it was, and there's an exhaustive amount of investigative journalism piecing together the facts just in the NY Times alone. It was not fucking staged.
Laying groundwork for cancelling the midterms. And they already pulled this card once in Butler, and it worked like a goddamn charm. Now the press is even more pro trump than it already was.
Incompetence and conspiracy look almost identical. Take your pick. So many lies we'll never parse the truth. Miller hiding behind his wife should be on the cover of Time
my take is she was speaking metaphorically about the speech Donny would have given. does anyone think Karoline would actually have spilled the beans like that, if she knew in advance about a shooting?
It may not have been staged but it certainly gave the MAGA morons their opportunity to shit post 5 million times "this is why we need a ballroom ffs". They got their marching orders and boy did they march.
There's a major flaw in this. The Washington Hilton Ballroom is about 5-10 times the size of the one Trump is proposing, depending on what figures you use for each. So is he proposing to expand its capacity by 10 times? That would be a space-swallowing monster.
OK Doc, I’m quietly drinking my coffee, trying to read and then…. And then after reading your quip…well… clean up on aisle 1… now I’ve got to brew another pot of coffee…🤪🤪🤪⚠️⚠️⚠️
Exactly, that makes no sense. Of course, she is about to bring a new little Republican voter into the world, and if the sitcoms are right, being pregnant makes you a scatterbrain who wants to gorge on pickles and ice cream.
But did you hear about what her husband said right before it all went down? Some lady was telling Fox “entertainment” what he said, & she was cut off. I’d love to know what else she was going to reveal!!
But then there’s this: Fox News Correspondent sitting next to Leavitt’s husband was warned to “be very careful tonight”and then was cut off as she described what he said:
Presumably. But which side is the party of violent rhetoric that stokes things like this? The MAGAts couldn't wait to blame Democrats and the media for the hate and divisiveness that their low IQ leader perpetrates.
Like most folks here, my immediate thought was, “another staged assassination attempt. At least no innocent had to die.” My wife’s first words…”watch him plug his ballroom over this.” She nailed it! I think the fact he had a prepared speech to amplify the need for the Epstein ballroom 30 minutes after the “shooting” adds credence to a staged event. Just my humble, uneducated opinion of course.
Also, there was an early report that was widely amplified by the press that the shooter was killed... before they corrected it and said he wasn't even shot and shared a photo of him ziptied lying face down on the floor (shirtless).
Chris Rock did a great routine where he said in order to reduce the amount of gun violence, each bullet should cost $10,000. Then you would hear things like, I wanna bust a cap in your ass but you ain't worth it. 😂
Answering a reporter’s question about why target him, Trump came up with a rather coherent reply that only or mostly it is Impactful people who are targeted. I wonder if that word came spontaneously from his pharmaceutically assisted brain. Or was that little speech prepared for him once back at the White House?
Of course, he added his own little touch by referring to himself as Impactful.
Sorry Jeff, but I think it was another staged assassination to boost his sagging popularity numbers. The number of people who are reporting on lax security at the event increases my level of confidence in the legitimacy of the incidence.
I am curious to know how the security this time compares to previous presidents appearances. You can throw in the National Prayer Breakfast & Al Smith dinner for other examples too.
I'm not on Team Anything, but it does seem like these things happen during times of significance to the Liar's political survivability. Then again, every day is of significance to the Liar's political survivability. Who knows. Who even cares at this point.
He's a legend in his own mind. The dichotomy of someone so delusionally egotistical and yet so immature and thinned skinned is a difficult paradox to assimilate.
they haven't been the crack team they used to be for some time. Wasn't Jill Biden upset with them over not protecting Biden like they should at some event?
And as far as I know, the USSS is still under the Treasury Department, which means Scott Bessent. That boot licker (do I have the right bootlicker?) would go along with such a plan.
Vance's team was ON IT. They hustled him right the fuck out of there. OTOH, he's been out of the loop lately, so if there were any plans, nobody would have told him/them.
I'm also highly suspicious of the fact that you can see Trump just hanging around in the wings in the photo of Nosferatu et Ux. Why wouldn't they get him to safety?
We either have something really fishy going on or the Secret Service is letting Trump run their show, which is a terrible idea. If they say move, he moves. They don't let his tantrums and threats override their assessments of dangers. You do what Vance's team did.
The security in place to protect the alleged President was unable to stop someone from dashing past them? I’ve seen more effective security at the county courthouse on a tuesday afternoon.
take a look at photos or videos of Patel sitting calmly at table while mayhem began and kegstand pete laughing about it....how in hell can secret service, fbi and rest of the security allow a person in with a weapon....I don't buy it
I think it was staged: rump had a cohearant "speech" promoting the room for his BALLS within half an hour. That's enough for me. But it has also bee pointed out, with video, that he never appeared suprised or frightened. Melanoma was. Do you think the Magic Ear incident was real?
Whether it was staged or not the damage there had already been done as they got the public relations boost they wanted. Looks like his security detail had a hard time lifting Dumpty from the floor. How does he get so fucking lucky with these assassination attempts.
So far the perpetrators have been amateurish, apparently choosing underpowered firearms and suboptimal tactics. Kirk's assassin was way more competent.
Well, he wasn't available, so they found someone who would work cheap. Hey, whatever happened to Kirk's assassin anyway. We never heard another thing about him. Why?
Because trial preparations are going slowly and badly for the prosecution as the court mulls defense motions for exclusion of some dubiously obtained evidence.
Well, the government only hires the best shooters. This is the only “conspiracy theory” I have ever agreed with, truly. There is NO way that kid in custody in Utah shot Charlie Kirk with the precision and skill of a military trained sniper. Just sayin…………
We just want him to die already, not become a martyr. If someone hated Trump so much why didn’t he just let him die instead of running head first into the most secure venue in the world with a gun?
That's what makes it really hard to believe. Everyone in the room had gone through copious security checks but this guy was able to get all the way to the door with a gun? Even if he was staying at the hotel, that doesn't sound plausible. I'm not a conspiracy person either, but I read a question from someone this morning: In that picture of Miller and his wife, why does it look like Trump is standing in the wings watching the whole thing? Making sure everyone plays their part?
Agree, and if, as they say he had a shotgun and an officer took fire into his chest armor then why was he not dead with all that firepower. Does not pass the smell test for at least 50% of Americans but we need to wait and see how the narrative plays out.
And at the helm is Fox drenching “their base” with red meat and endless lies, gaslighting, just off the wall conspiracy theories, the fix is in.
Right, since when does a black man "open fire" and actually hit a secret service agent and not end up full of bullets (which was the initial report, that he had been killed). Like others have said, the fact that so many of us immediately called bullshit on the whole thing says it all.
Personally? I think ALL of the guns involved - on "both sides" - were shooting BLANKS. (And yes, blanks DO cause damage to bulletproof vests - they proved THAT on "Mythbusters", over a decade ago.)
Plus distract from the Iran war, distract from the Epstein files, boost his plummeting popularity. Where's that brilliant mentalist they had planned as the evening's entertainment?
A second grade teacher spent quite a few bucks booking a room at that hotel, after flying from California. School is still in session, by the way. I wonder when he booked the room and his flight.
As with the Las Vegas shooter, it is curious how he could get those weapons from his room down the elevator without being noticed.
How do you know it wasn't noticed? Who would stop him besides security, of which there was very little and likely not stationed randomly all over the entire hotel?
I'm not seeing any public relations boost here. Frankly, people are way too concerned with things that actually impact their lives to care about shit going on at a fancy Washington D.C. dinner.
Right? Still got to buy gas and groceries this week. He wasn’t actually injured. This isn’t much different than when they stop some lunatic running onto the WH lawn.
The whole thing from start to finish is nauseating. It should be horrifying but it’s nauseating. The whole concept of the correspondent dinner where the incompetent reporters gather to do what? Celebrate their tremendous contribution to bringing orange turd to the presidency since before 2016 (eg but her emails right up to Jeff’s wondering why no one asks wtf 🤬 is the matter with you)? Then this year having turd there as a guest is like the Association of Rabbis having adolf hitler speak while various news organizations have oligarchs as guests absolutely flaunting the takeover of MSM by fascists. Then quotes and scenes of orange falling over and blabbing - my god. But the highlight was Nosferatu with his hand in Mrs Millers breast - god if she’s pregnant did she have THAT inside her? Oh, oh same with Usha Vance. Ok digressed a little.
Plus Ali Velshi whom I like very much devoted a whole segment of his show (I listen to the podcast version) to this farce with breathless dramatic coverage showing its effectiveness as a distraction from a distraction from a distraction (how many distractions? I lost count.)
I had a father with dementia who fell. I'm a woman & not in shape like a USSS agent, but lifting dead weight that can't try to help get up is HARD. also, with dementia, the patient can reach a point that the reflex to break their fall disappears.
Just finished watching Meet The Press. The Press panel went on ad nauseum about the increase in political violence in this country and the need to turn down the temperature of the rhetoric. Not once mention the vitriol spewing out of Pumpkinhead's mouth on a daily basis as... oh, possibly being factor! The media is slowly morphing into what this administration wants, just a mouthpiece for their agenda.
I'm reminded that Matthew Dowd was instantly fired for saying something along those same lines Re: that Charlie Kirk's rhetoric might be a factor in his killing. None of the msm/political quislings want to stick their neck out or be shown the door.
I saw some journalists talking on a show saying people think they were in on the sham assassination attempt. They were really worried that people thought it wasn’t real. All of the comments were basically the same, it was real to them as they were in the room and felt the panic and fear, and at the same time it appeared to a LARGE number of people to be completely staged. There are just too many reasons for another boost for Trump to occur.
1. It worked last time.
2. His polls are way the fuck down.
3. He’s bored with the war and is stuck in it and can’t bully his way out.
4. People are starting to talk about the Epstein files again.
5. He needs evidence that there is danger out there and the elections may need to be cancelled.
Tragedy? Yes, for the people who were actually shot. For the one using the tragedy as a publicity stunt by posing for a pre-planned photo op or whining about needing a ginormous ballroom for his safety? Nah. The real tragedy is the number of school children killed and traumatized by constant shootings. No ballrooms for them.
Well of course not. We can't afford to build $400 million dollar schools where kids MAYBE won't get shot, unless one of the armed teachers goes apeshit. I think everyone in that room that had to hide under the tables should be made to tell us about the terror they felt, then paraded out onto the street at the Hilton so we can all throw tots and pears at them.
We can’t afford to build the malignant toad a ballroom either. For $400 million we could start building safe rooms for kids OR we could start gun law reform. Which would be easier and less costly?
Gun law reform would be less costly but more difficult. Safe rooms will be more costly but easily passed by the current administration. They're already on board with militarization of elementary schools. Clearly, none of them remember being in second grade. Yikes.
They all are incredibly ignorant. Your opening sentences with “just as our founders intended” is spot on! It is sickening to think how low this country has gotten. Jeff-you win the prize for best journalist, in my opinion as you tell it like it is. Thanks for putting into words what I (we) are all thinking!
There have been bad, dumb, corrupt presidents (Harding, Andrew Johnson, Buchanan) before. Im not a student of the history of the Executive branch, and Trump is probably the most corrupt, but I dont think he planned this one. But that doesn't mean someone else didn't. Did they kill the assassin?
No, which is being pointed at as proof it was staged. Which makes zero sense since the shooter WAS killed in Butler, which people ridiculously still think was staged.
“Every President for the last 150 years, have been DEMANDING that a large, safe, and secure Ballroom be built ON THE GROUNDS OF THE WHITE HOUSE.”
Uhhh… we happen to have 3 living Presidents who have served in the last 150 years. Maybe, just maybe, someone should ask them if they DEMANDED that! 🤔🤷♂️
Trump also claimed that the military demands the ballroom. I'm sure that the servicemen deployed to his war, floating around endlessly, deprived of decent nutrition are begging with tears in their eyes for a big beautiful ballroom. In your dreams, Donald.
It’s worth noting that Donny has told the story several times about how he offered to build a ballroom for Obama, and he was turned down. So, not every president..
The "now you see why we need the ballroom" nonsense only makes sense if he and future presidents never leave the White House. There will always be heightened danger in public, rallies, golf course, etc. Try again, Cankles.
They sure did take their sweet time even getting to him. And only two secret service guys were by him. Vance was already out of the room by that time. I saw a pic of trump standing behind the curtain watching what was going on. Not sure if that was for real. We just never know anymore what’s real and what’s bullshit. I am completely over it.
A gun scare at the Correspondents’ Dinner and Trump’s first instinct was to sell America a bulletproof ballroom. That is not leadership. That is QVC for authoritarian panic. Blessed are the Secret Service agents doing cardio while the nation waits for one adult to say maybe fewer randos with guns would be nice.
Yes. Totes, Ron. I believe we’re gonna see many more of these before November. And I don’t think anyone among us feels safe with this particular FBI roaming.
There will most likely be some commemorative merch, some praying and praising for protection of the chosen one, a new crypto offering, and perhaps a T-shirt for sale.
Exactly what I said. My 26 year-old daughter and I were watching that same clip and I googled Keystone Cops to show her what it reminded me of and we laughed and laughed. Is that not the appropriate reaction to an assassination attempt on the president? It felt right.
It was staged. At least this time no one got killed. And regardless of whether or not it was staged. Some facts caught on video - they got Vance out before Trump. Trump couldn't walk without assistance. They got Miller out before Hegseth. Macho man Hegseth ran from, not toward to gunfire. Patel stood around looking like he was waiting for an Uber. The was a clusterfuck of the first degree.
sorry, I'm not on Team It Was Staged.
feel free to try to convince me it was
Whether this was staged or not, the fact that it was the first thought people had, tells us how little credibility this administration has.
ABSOLUTELY, ONE HUNDRED PERCENT
Trump has made a career of assuming that he will get the benefit of the doubt with every stunt and every lie.
After all these years you’d think the burden of proof should be placed on him.
It may not have been staged, but it shows the complete incompetence of Donny, his Secret Service ( really, 3 attempts?), the FBI & anyone else responsible for security in that hotel
April Ryan was saying this morning that everything was off about the security. She was able to move from floor to floor without using her room key, which she's never been able to do in previous years, even the ones Trump didn't attend. Much less ID checking.
The main feeling I had was, “ it’s interesting how little I care about this event, whether it was staged or not.”
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Sunny! THIS, THIS THIS, THIS and FUCK yeah THIS! He nails it to the fucking WALL!
... and hundreds of millions of citizens shrugged and turned away...
I didn't immediately think it was staged, but after reading the bizarre nothing accounts by the major media I became more and more suspicious. But then that subsided and I realized I didn't care. If Trump was still stumbling around with both his ears, then nah. Did the would-be shooter talk about precious bodily fluids? Just wondering.
"Precious bodily fluids!"
BAHAHAAHAAHAA ‼️‼️
My first thought was that it might have been staged. The fact this was my first thought shows just how pathetic the current administration is.
especially since the clown vowed never to attend this dog and pony show but shows up when there is a shooter
Exactly. I'm in the 'it was staged' camp, which is never my go-to, but something smells incredibly fishy about this one. Incredibly fishy.
I didn't turn my tv on until about 1.5 hrs after it happened. But when I saw the footage & commentary on BBC News, it took me about TEN MIN to see the major HOLES:
1- The footage we're seeing of the "shooter" running past that checkpoint? That was the SECOND checkpoint. Which means he ALREADY MADE IT through the FIRST checkpoint....w/ what? - A LONG GUN, A PISTOL, SEVERAL KNIVES, & NO TICKET? Did he bum-rush the FIRST checkpoint, too? And if so....WHY DIDN'T THEY INFORM THE *SECOND* CHECKPOINT IMMEDIATELY?
2- The people who were IN the ballroom stated that they heard "THREE shots". CNN's Wolf Blitzer was STANDING AT THAT SECOND CHECKPOINT (he'd left the ballroom to go to the restroom, & was on his way back, where he WITNESSED EVERYTHING before eventually being thrown to the floor w/ an officer on top of him). Blitzer said HE heard "FIVE TO EIGHT" shots. WHY THE DIFFERENCE?
3- In light of that ☝️, we know that ONE of those shots hit an officer in his bulletproof vest. WHERE DID THE REST OF THOSE "SHOTS" GO?
4- AND, in light of THAT ☝️, WHY WASN'T THE GUY HIT? Aren't these SecServ & other officers CRACK SHOTS?* UP TO SEVEN OTHER SHOTS were directed at him....& EVERYONE MISSED???
5- While MOST of the attendees were diving under their tables upon hearing those "shots", what was #Bumblefuck doing? TALKING TO THE EVENING'S ENTERTAINMENT, SOME THIRD RATE "MENTALIST"....who HIMSELF ducked under the dias, leaving #Bumblefuck SITTING THERE, *STARING AT THE DUDE'S EMPTY SPACE*, before being PULLED under the dias himself. What's w/ THAT? Is he DEAF? Or did he KNOW HE WAS IN NO DANGER, because it was ALL ARRANGED IN ADVANCE....just like BUTLER, PA WAS? He said over & over, that he was NOT going to attend....then, suddenly, he decided he WAS going. WHY THE LAST MIN CHANGE?
All of that tells me that IT WAS YET ANOTHER PUBLICITY STUNT, to be performed IN FRONT OF AN AUDIENCE HE HATES - THE PRESS. What BETTER way of making himself "A VICTIM, AGAIN"?
And, didn’t he say prior to the event that there was going to be something really special in the event? I don’t remember the exact wording of his comment.
My thought is, Fuckwit is a huge coward. Now, no idea what drugs he was on last night, and no idea how his narcissism plays into it, but 30 minutes after a genuine assassination attempt, I'd think he'd still be hiding under his bed, not giving a speech. But then, his grip on reality IS slipping....
Attribute incompetence and stupidity before conspiracy.
Thank you. THIS.
And it was widely reported it was going to a dramatic mic drop.
Yeah, but - that works in reverse as well. . .
I smell a rat not only for this latest hoax but the Butler fiasco was definitely a setup with the WWE asshat standing next to him and probably gave him the blood capsule when they yelled action
One of these things is not like the other .
Oh please. Just stop.
Both Dumpty and Couchfuck. In the same place. WTF?
Don't beat yourself up over it. Look at what they are actually ARE doing to people....the concentration camps, the foul immigrant camp conditions, ICE not being prosecuted for outright murder, insider trading in our faces, illegal war, all of the contributing factors. Plenty of people have been injured and killed. Funding cut to needy children out of being pissed at the Pope.Suddenly we are supposed to apologize for being suspicious ? Not me.
For me, the problem with another staged assassination attempt isn’t the lie (that’s perfectly normal for him, and expected). No, it’s the fact that this will rile up the magats and other gullible, ignorant voters, who will rally to support their poor, beleagured president, and show up at the polls to support him and his minions.
Except November is a long ways away, and Americans have the collective memory span of goldfish
🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼
Good point... you're right....that's could be the unfortunate secondary gain for him...no matter how the event is percieved.
My first thought was, "AGAIN, it's a 'liberal' who can't aim."
I don't think it has been established that he even fired his gun, the security agent may have been hit by cross fire from otjer agents. Ballistics will discern that.
But perhaps neglect to publicize the results. Geez, I’m starting to sound like. Russian conspiracy believer friend of mine. 🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻
Allen used his shot gun, agents fired bullets, very easy for ballistics to tell the difference between BB type projectiles and bullets , even deformed ones.
Same, till I came to the conclusion that we will never get the true story from the lie house 🏠. Frankly this make me want the Epstein files more to end this regime, period.
It was like an ESP broadcast to all American citizens.
I know. I can't believe I am thinking this. I've been arguing against conspiracy theories since Lee Harvey Oswald. And I find myself thinking there was SOMETHING staged about this, even if it was just post-event stories about something that was actually meaningless, like a hotel guest's gun going off accidentally. (It's possible in this "guns for everyone everywhere" country.)
How did he even get a gun in there if they had metal detectors & the heightened security they claim they had? I’m not into conspiracy theories at all, but things about these attempts, 3 now, just aren’t adding up.
The fact that Todd Blanche, a total Trump toadie, is making premature pronouncements is highly suspicious.
KKKAROLYING too, she's always full of shit.
She said there would be shots fired. It was a staged event to give the rubes a thrill and something to tell their readers.
Anything he says is highly suspicious. He a board-certified pathological liar and copper-riveted gas-lighter.
Given all of their past shenanigans, especially his miraculous ear regrowth, i can't help but think this was staged too. A # of motivations that come to mind include the promotion of his wasteful, hideous new ballroom , a distraction from his low declining poll numbers and all of his other fuck ups, an excuse not get roasted at the dinner, etc. etc. We have sociopaths running the country, why wouldn't we put this past them.
Wait. So he uses his Reichstag moment to get his ballroom?
sociopaths and morons.
Never assume malice when stupidity and incompetence will suffice.
we will never know since the fox is watching the investigative hen house
And there stands Kash Patel, head of the FBI, looking like he fell out of someone's ass. No clue and worse than useless.
Blind drunk?
How does this guy get a room in the place?
On a teacher’s salary none the less!
He was a mechanical engineer, might have savied up.
If your talking about the shooter....he arrived a few days before and checked in like any other guests....he came by train where there are no checks for guns.
Thank you. That makes sense.
He paid for it.
Put it on his credit card.
credit card. What's wrong with these comments below? Are none of these people Californians? Californians usually have multiple interests, activities. Yes, customer service person, bird watcher, diagnosing and fixing computer glitches, gardener, tutoring.
April Ryan, who's been to a ton of these, said this morning that the security was unusually lax.
When he's protected by Murc's Law and the deference to the unreconstructed, he can paradoxically benefit from incompetence.
Not just " a gun. I read that the guy had several guns and a knife! Did they not have a screening machine set up near the hotel entrance.?
Gee, maybe the mentalist they hired as an entertainer could have predicted the whole thing!
His manifesto is online. I just googled it. Check it out,
Sounds made up to me!
It sounds perfectly genuine to me.
He sprinted past the MAGS.
When you have a leader who openly lies about everything, including things that don't need to be lied about, or are easily proven as lies - you start developing your own "truths"
I think they’re (his puppet masters) might be getting ready to bump the moron off. He’s too far down the dementia road
the CIA are experts at these as evidenced by the JFK killings which in my opinion were done by our own government
Most woman today carry lady pistols in their designer evening bags.
Oh please. That's ridiculous
Sorry its true maybe you out much. I have never held a gun, but I have seen them in lots of colors and designs.
MOST? Where are you hang out? ‘A lot’ or ‘many’ would be more accurate but even that’s a stretch. And isn't it illegal to carry in DC?
Same
The fact that that was the FIRST thing most normal people thought shows that NOBODY would it past this WH to pull a stunt a like that.
EXACTLY
Yep. Everything is a show for this mad carnival barker. And he's fully protected by Murc's Law.
It suggests that when political outcomes are unfavorable, the blame is directed entirely at Democrats for failing to stop it, rather than at Republicans for initiating it.
Yup. Our entire political landscape is predicated on the idea that everyone else is responsible for Republicans' actions.
This was the clever premise pushed by William F. Buckley as a pioneer of the neocon movement in the '60's. Republicans, the GOP of personal responsibility, loved it.
I agree with you 100%!
That first attempt before the election was definitely staged. The saying “fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me” seems fitting. A lot of people are skeptical about this second attempt. Maybe the third time will be the charm. The Benny Hill theme song playing to the Keystone cops video was great!!
There was also a failed attempt at one of his golf courses in Fla. prior to the election.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that one. I guess it didn’t make an impression because the guy never got a shot off.
That guy actually is NUTZO.
I think that is the "second one" and I feel like it shouldn't count. He was just a dude with a gun near Trump when he wasn't president in Florida. I think every man is required by law to have a gun in Florida. He didn't take a shot or anything.
This was the third time. The other was outside hidden in the bushes outside his golf course. The guy is in jail now
I think that he received a life sentence without parole for that. Plus an extra 5 years for the gun charge
Stephanie, I agree with you.
This video was posted in Der Spiegel in an article my friend posted today. It also tells us how little credibility this administration has with Iran and I would say with Germany too.
https://youtu.be/5G9DNx7xIIc?si=KqP_gWELdp8966qb
Even my son, who was a submarine officer in the Navy turned investment banker, was entertaining that it was staged. JD Vance and an assortment of sewer clowns were at the office building he works at in downtown Dallas a few weeks ago and there were swat teams everywhere and the secret service had the building locked down tighter than a tick. And this guy waltzes in the Hilton like it’s nothing?
The Russians offered to stage an assassination attempt on orban, why not with trump? It's not like the idiots in the white house would refuse their help. Besides, they already did it once at Butler and it won them the election.
Also was that full investigation quietly closed… (so hard to keep the bingo card straight)
was never investigated
Yes, it was, and there's an exhaustive amount of investigative journalism piecing together the facts just in the NY Times alone. It was not fucking staged.
But if Drumpf wasn’t injured or slain, what would be the point of a staged attempt? Sympathy? only MAGAs would beg for that.
Laying groundwork for cancelling the midterms. And they already pulled this card once in Butler, and it worked like a goddamn charm. Now the press is even more pro trump than it already was.
Yes.
Almost the first words out of his piehole were "See? This proves I NEED my Big Beautiful Ballroom!"
Ballroom propaganda. We heard that immediately after he thanked his SS detail.
Higher poll ratings
He’s losing the magats. Maybe this is his way to bring them back.
The POINT would be for #Bumblefuck to be "a victim" IN FRONT OF A ROOMFULL OF THE PEOPLE HE HATES THE MOST - THE PRESS.
He said MANY TIMES that he had NO INTENTION OF ATTENDING. Why did he SUDDENLY CHANGE HIS MIND?
Because, w/ #Bumblefuck, EVERYTHING IS A DOG & PONY SHOW, W/ HIM AS THE STAR ATTRACTION....NO MATTER *HOW* FAKE IT IS.
Yes.
Not even sure that would work on magas as much anymore.
Yes.
Because if the Russians did it he would be dead.
Why would they kill their most valuable asset?
Maybe they are now seeing even more value in JD.
Yes.
Plus he is so damn proud of that "Fight Fight Fight" photo he had it blown up and framed, on a wall in the White House and shows it off to visitors.
If his babysitters told him about it ahead of time like they probably did at Butler he might have blurted it out on truth social.
Why is everyone incompetent, including the assassins?
Yeah, the universe actually had two jobs: it could let Jeff sleep, or it could rid us at last of the Dumb Antichrist. It failed to accomplish either.
Yes.
Cuz this is ‘Murika, where schoolin’ is stoopid, as is analytic thinking.
Because they aren't picked for their competence.
My thought too.
Faster than a speeding bullet!
Van Jones on CNN right now:
“Bullets are physical things…and they move past you faster than you can react.” So say you Van Jones.
Remember when Obama caught a fly that was trying to get closer to a real prez? He caught it, one try now that was some live action!
Look, it's hard to get a decent assassin these days. No one ever said it would be easy. It's as least as hard as negotiating with Iran.
Security got lucky, they're incompetent.
It's the EDUCATION SYSTEM FAILURE
Who heads that department now, oh yeah that’s ez Todd Blanche he is everywhere!
Incompetence and conspiracy look almost identical. Take your pick. So many lies we'll never parse the truth. Miller hiding behind his wife should be on the cover of Time
Yes. The look on his face, though. Not fear, but sort of triumphant at a plan that worked? 💁🏻
What? It's a split second of action. You can't possibly base an assumption that it was staged on THAT. 🙄
The boob you save, might be your wifes.
😂
There's a saying: never assume malice when incompetence will suffice.
Who’s the father of the upcoming little bundle of joy, Miller or Elon?
Ole!
I don’t know that it was actually staged, but KL’s comments 2 hours earlier are quite the coincidence https://youtu.be/tw9R4E--I2c?si=GZLqErfU4TV5ajmt
my take is she was speaking metaphorically about the speech Donny would have given. does anyone think Karoline would actually have spilled the beans like that, if she knew in advance about a shooting?
It may not have been staged but it certainly gave the MAGA morons their opportunity to shit post 5 million times "this is why we need a ballroom ffs". They got their marching orders and boy did they march.
I so wish they would take a long march off a short pier
trump should be KEEL HAULED.
There's a major flaw in this. The Washington Hilton Ballroom is about 5-10 times the size of the one Trump is proposing, depending on what figures you use for each. So is he proposing to expand its capacity by 10 times? That would be a space-swallowing monster.
Oh, he'll just bulldoze the rest of the WH and the Eisenhower Office Building. Then he'll build a tRump tower to replace it.
He likes monsters
I wonder how many of those 5 million were just bots and not real people. This is what they do.....god, how I hate them!
As I asked above, how would a ballroom prevent this?
It's the bunker underneath that he wants, the ballroom with stairs to nowhere is just a " disguise".
When she said ready to rumble, I thought she meant his diaper
OK Doc, I’m quietly drinking my coffee, trying to read and then…. And then after reading your quip…well… clean up on aisle 1… now I’ve got to brew another pot of coffee…🤪🤪🤪⚠️⚠️⚠️
Sanity requires mirth, which sometimes when unexpected is the best
Touche'!!
True, but the fact that everyone thinks its possible it was staged, says a lot in and of itself.
Yes. Dumb asses gonna dumb ass.
👍👍
Given that incompetence is a requirement to work for this regime, yes.
Yes, because she's a moron.
She also said she doesn't work for Trump but is only a government employee, this as she waddled out the door for maternity leave.
This
yes I think she is that dumb
Exactly, that makes no sense. Of course, she is about to bring a new little Republican voter into the world, and if the sitcoms are right, being pregnant makes you a scatterbrain who wants to gorge on pickles and ice cream.
She can use the pregnancy as an excuse for the strange food cravings, but she was a racist POS before, so no excuse for that
Lunchmeat & soft cheese ! 🤣
Oz Pearlman correctly came up with the name of her baby, VIVIAN. He's pretty amazing, I don't know how he does it.
But did you hear about what her husband said right before it all went down? Some lady was telling Fox “entertainment” what he said, & she was cut off. I’d love to know what else she was going to reveal!!
I read that he said "be careful".
you seem unfamiliar with the regime's lack of OPSEC.
I agree but only because she was trying to hype up we all know that speech would be a snooze-fest.
But then there’s this: Fox News Correspondent sitting next to Leavitt’s husband was warned to “be very careful tonight”and then was cut off as she described what he said:
https://substack.com/@ifloz/note/c-249429285?r=cbub3&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
I agree but only because she was trying to hype up we all know that speech would be a snooze-fest.
Her phrasing is indeed spooky and she's just dumb enough.....
Presumably. But which side is the party of violent rhetoric that stokes things like this? The MAGAts couldn't wait to blame Democrats and the media for the hate and divisiveness that their low IQ leader perpetrates.
" Coincidence takes a lot of planning"
Malcolm Nance
😳
if it was staged, it shows the contempt the orange asshat and his sycophants have for the american people to think they are easily fooled
Holy shit, she actually said "there will be shots fired" good god this make me ill
She knew that would be the "entertainment" for the evening.
😂
Like most folks here, my immediate thought was, “another staged assassination attempt. At least no innocent had to die.” My wife’s first words…”watch him plug his ballroom over this.” She nailed it! I think the fact he had a prepared speech to amplify the need for the Epstein ballroom 30 minutes after the “shooting” adds credence to a staged event. Just my humble, uneducated opinion of course.
Also, there was an early report that was widely amplified by the press that the shooter was killed... before they corrected it and said he wasn't even shot and shared a photo of him ziptied lying face down on the floor (shirtless).
Yep, saw that early report, and then when Rump announced that the shooter had been apprehended....WTAF??
Stephen Miller's wife couldn't use him as a human shield because he:
1. Doesn't meet the essential qualification of being a human
2. Isn't tall enough for the ride
3.Somehow is always behind her
4.Isn't large enough to be a target of opportunity.
No one in their right mind would think either of them is worth the cost of a bullet
Truth!😂😂
Chris Rock did a great routine where he said in order to reduce the amount of gun violence, each bullet should cost $10,000. Then you would hear things like, I wanna bust a cap in your ass but you ain't worth it. 😂
👏🏼
The Reuters photo of Hegseth grinning like a hyena after the press conference was pretty suss.
I’ll have to look that one up. I’m definately on team fake.
Here's a link to the Meidas Touch post on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/meidastouch.com/post/3mkfbpaenjs25
Thank you, Marian! Oh yes, a very normal reaction to an event like this . . .
He NEVER reacts normally to ANYTHING.
He did hawk his ballroom after without barely mentioning the shooting attempt
- @serrata.org
Answering a reporter’s question about why target him, Trump came up with a rather coherent reply that only or mostly it is Impactful people who are targeted. I wonder if that word came spontaneously from his pharmaceutically assisted brain. Or was that little speech prepared for him once back at the White House?
Of course, he added his own little touch by referring to himself as Impactful.
Always gotta compare himself to President Lincoln. There is only one way that could be true . . .
His bowels are definitely NOT IMPACTED.
Sorry Jeff, but I think it was another staged assassination to boost his sagging popularity numbers. The number of people who are reporting on lax security at the event increases my level of confidence in the legitimacy of the incidence.
I am curious to know how the security this time compares to previous presidents appearances. You can throw in the National Prayer Breakfast & Al Smith dinner for other examples too.
He was protected at Al Smith dinner by Dolan sitting in his lap
I dunno jeff just the fact that it got him outta sitting there for 3 hrs…
..in front of the so-called “press” whom he hates, even though they bend the knee to kiss his flabby ass.
I'm not on Team Anything, but it does seem like these things happen during times of significance to the Liar's political survivability. Then again, every day is of significance to the Liar's political survivability. Who knows. Who even cares at this point.
I’m on team “ secret service fucked up”
I was waiting for them to stand him up in plain view for the obligatory fist pump
They let him trip and fall, which was actually better.
Maybe one of them tripped him. That thought gives me great comfort and I'm going to hold onto it all day long.
Practice for Air Force One.......
😂
" I get the best ratings. Ratings like nobody has ever seen." Says the president who lives in his never ending reality show.
He's a legend in his own mind. The dichotomy of someone so delusionally egotistical and yet so immature and thinned skinned is a difficult paradox to assimilate.
Doc pulling out all of the big words- excellent post
Wasn’t Legend in his own mind, Timothy Leary? or was that a Moody Blues song I’m mixing up?
The Moody's song about Leary was called Legend of a Mind
Exactly why I don't think it was staged.
If it was not a completely staged-for-TV event, then the secret service is remarkably incompetent.
they haven't been the crack team they used to be for some time. Wasn't Jill Biden upset with them over not protecting Biden like they should at some event?
And as far as I know, the USSS is still under the Treasury Department, which means Scott Bessent. That boot licker (do I have the right bootlicker?) would go along with such a plan.
We know that Kash Patel & the FBI would.
Was that the time Joe tripped over some small but heavy object that was on the stage near the podium when he turned and started to walk away?
It was transfered from Treasury to Homeland Security long ago
So this was on Markwayne's beat? Hilarious.
Did the Space Nazi’s pimpled inept incel DOGEBAGS decimate the Secret Service too?
Vance's team was ON IT. They hustled him right the fuck out of there. OTOH, he's been out of the loop lately, so if there were any plans, nobody would have told him/them.
I'm also highly suspicious of the fact that you can see Trump just hanging around in the wings in the photo of Nosferatu et Ux. Why wouldn't they get him to safety?
We either have something really fishy going on or the Secret Service is letting Trump run their show, which is a terrible idea. If they say move, he moves. They don't let his tantrums and threats override their assessments of dangers. You do what Vance's team did.
Por que no los dos?
The security in place to protect the alleged President was unable to stop someone from dashing past them? I’ve seen more effective security at the county courthouse on a tuesday afternoon.
They were all busy scratching their balls in the ballroom
take a look at photos or videos of Patel sitting calmly at table while mayhem began and kegstand pete laughing about it....how in hell can secret service, fbi and rest of the security allow a person in with a weapon....I don't buy it
Some guests didn't hear the shots trump thought a server dropped a tray.
I think it was staged: rump had a cohearant "speech" promoting the room for his BALLS within half an hour. That's enough for me. But it has also bee pointed out, with video, that he never appeared suprised or frightened. Melanoma was. Do you think the Magic Ear incident was real?
It was staged as entertainment.
As a distraction.
Room for his BALLS.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
:-D In actual fact I think he has no balls, but I coupdn't resist the joke.
Whether it was staged or not the damage there had already been done as they got the public relations boost they wanted. Looks like his security detail had a hard time lifting Dumpty from the floor. How does he get so fucking lucky with these assassination attempts.
So far the perpetrators have been amateurish, apparently choosing underpowered firearms and suboptimal tactics. Kirk's assassin was way more competent.
Well, he wasn't available, so they found someone who would work cheap. Hey, whatever happened to Kirk's assassin anyway. We never heard another thing about him. Why?
Because trial preparations are going slowly and badly for the prosecution as the court mulls defense motions for exclusion of some dubiously obtained evidence.
Thanks!
Well, the government only hires the best shooters. This is the only “conspiracy theory” I have ever agreed with, truly. There is NO way that kid in custody in Utah shot Charlie Kirk with the precision and skill of a military trained sniper. Just sayin…………
He only needed one good shot and his target wasn't moving.
The ATF could not match the bullet from Kirks body to the gun the kid allegedly used.
We don't even know if they actually got into the ballroom.
He didn’t. He was in the lobby
Maybe. I think this is actually going to demonstrate how cynical we’ve all become.
We just want him to die already, not become a martyr. If someone hated Trump so much why didn’t he just let him die instead of running head first into the most secure venue in the world with a gun?
That's what makes it really hard to believe. Everyone in the room had gone through copious security checks but this guy was able to get all the way to the door with a gun? Even if he was staying at the hotel, that doesn't sound plausible. I'm not a conspiracy person either, but I read a question from someone this morning: In that picture of Miller and his wife, why does it look like Trump is standing in the wings watching the whole thing? Making sure everyone plays their part?
Agree, and if, as they say he had a shotgun and an officer took fire into his chest armor then why was he not dead with all that firepower. Does not pass the smell test for at least 50% of Americans but we need to wait and see how the narrative plays out.
And at the helm is Fox drenching “their base” with red meat and endless lies, gaslighting, just off the wall conspiracy theories, the fix is in.
Right, since when does a black man "open fire" and actually hit a secret service agent and not end up full of bullets (which was the initial report, that he had been killed). Like others have said, the fact that so many of us immediately called bullshit on the whole thing says it all.
Personally? I think ALL of the guns involved - on "both sides" - were shooting BLANKS. (And yes, blanks DO cause damage to bulletproof vests - they proved THAT on "Mythbusters", over a decade ago.)
According to several attendees, security was almost nonexistent.
It was another fake assassination attempt, staged as entertainment.
I'm wondering if its purpose was to get more support for his trashy ballroom.
Plus distract from the Iran war, distract from the Epstein files, boost his plummeting popularity. Where's that brilliant mentalist they had planned as the evening's entertainment?
No, it wasn't, and neither was Butler.
The gunman didn't get into the same room with Donnie. A second-grade teacher has wrecked his life for nothing. Unfortunately, he's a black man.
A second grade teacher spent quite a few bucks booking a room at that hotel, after flying from California. School is still in session, by the way. I wonder when he booked the room and his flight.
As with the Las Vegas shooter, it is curious how he could get those weapons from his room down the elevator without being noticed.
Reports this morning are saying the “gunman” traveled cross-country by train with a stop in Chicago.
Thanks for the update, Frank.
Guardian now reports that Cole Allen is a game developer, definitely not a second grade teacher. Rumors everywhere.
He was "Teacher of the Month" in the district he taught for, PART TIME, in Dec 2024. (Source: BBC)
He worked PART TIME at SEVERAL things.
A reporter attending the WHCD said no one was checked for weapons or ID. Just flashed their tickets
How do you know it wasn't noticed? Who would stop him besides security, of which there was very little and likely not stationed randomly all over the entire hotel?
I'm not seeing any public relations boost here. Frankly, people are way too concerned with things that actually impact their lives to care about shit going on at a fancy Washington D.C. dinner.
I think someone might have planned it, but we're past the point where we are shocked or even really care at all.
Right? Still got to buy gas and groceries this week. He wasn’t actually injured. This isn’t much different than when they stop some lunatic running onto the WH lawn.
The whole thing from start to finish is nauseating. It should be horrifying but it’s nauseating. The whole concept of the correspondent dinner where the incompetent reporters gather to do what? Celebrate their tremendous contribution to bringing orange turd to the presidency since before 2016 (eg but her emails right up to Jeff’s wondering why no one asks wtf 🤬 is the matter with you)? Then this year having turd there as a guest is like the Association of Rabbis having adolf hitler speak while various news organizations have oligarchs as guests absolutely flaunting the takeover of MSM by fascists. Then quotes and scenes of orange falling over and blabbing - my god. But the highlight was Nosferatu with his hand in Mrs Millers breast - god if she’s pregnant did she have THAT inside her? Oh, oh same with Usha Vance. Ok digressed a little.
The recipients of the Journalism scholarships were ROBBED, of their moment, unfortunately. The reporter who was to receive an honor for
uncovering the Epstein scandal was also robbed.
Very convenient for the presiDUNCE
Yes - this is the honorable part of the dinner isn’t it and yes they were robbed.
Plus Ali Velshi whom I like very much devoted a whole segment of his show (I listen to the podcast version) to this farce with breathless dramatic coverage showing its effectiveness as a distraction from a distraction from a distraction (how many distractions? I lost count.)
I had a father with dementia who fell. I'm a woman & not in shape like a USSS agent, but lifting dead weight that can't try to help get up is HARD. also, with dementia, the patient can reach a point that the reflex to break their fall disappears.
The incompetence of these would be assassins is staggering.
Hey, at least he TRIED.
Probably because the troglodytes making these attempts are even dumber and less prepared than he is.
Staged
That boost won’t last 3 days in this media environment
Well now, this makes three - guy sure is lucky? unlucky?
No, the American people are the unlucky ones.
Yeah, how?
I told my 28 year old son what had happened. He said “now he knows how school kids feel”.
Except school kids are trained to shelter in place IMMEDIATELY - not up and run outta the room… interesting
Totally different situations.
Nah. He's not capable empathy at all.
Now everyone in that room knows how it feels. Maybe a positive result will be that reporters have more urgency around school and other shootings.
One would’ve thought that after Jan 6. Nope we’re still the dumbass country with more guns than people.
More than two guns per person
400,000,000 of them!
Wow.
Just finished watching Meet The Press. The Press panel went on ad nauseum about the increase in political violence in this country and the need to turn down the temperature of the rhetoric. Not once mention the vitriol spewing out of Pumpkinhead's mouth on a daily basis as... oh, possibly being factor! The media is slowly morphing into what this administration wants, just a mouthpiece for their agenda.
Not so slowly.
I'm reminded that Matthew Dowd was instantly fired for saying something along those same lines Re: that Charlie Kirk's rhetoric might be a factor in his killing. None of the msm/political quislings want to stick their neck out or be shown the door.
I saw some journalists talking on a show saying people think they were in on the sham assassination attempt. They were really worried that people thought it wasn’t real. All of the comments were basically the same, it was real to them as they were in the room and felt the panic and fear, and at the same time it appeared to a LARGE number of people to be completely staged. There are just too many reasons for another boost for Trump to occur.
1. It worked last time.
2. His polls are way the fuck down.
3. He’s bored with the war and is stuck in it and can’t bully his way out.
4. People are starting to talk about the Epstein files again.
5. He needs evidence that there is danger out there and the elections may need to be cancelled.
By "it" working last time, if you're talking about the pile-on to take advantage of a tragedy, I agree.
Tragedy? Yes, for the people who were actually shot. For the one using the tragedy as a publicity stunt by posing for a pre-planned photo op or whining about needing a ginormous ballroom for his safety? Nah. The real tragedy is the number of school children killed and traumatized by constant shootings. No ballrooms for them.
Well of course not. We can't afford to build $400 million dollar schools where kids MAYBE won't get shot, unless one of the armed teachers goes apeshit. I think everyone in that room that had to hide under the tables should be made to tell us about the terror they felt, then paraded out onto the street at the Hilton so we can all throw tots and pears at them.
We can’t afford to build the malignant toad a ballroom either. For $400 million we could start building safe rooms for kids OR we could start gun law reform. Which would be easier and less costly?
Gun law reform would be less costly but more difficult. Safe rooms will be more costly but easily passed by the current administration. They're already on board with militarization of elementary schools. Clearly, none of them remember being in second grade. Yikes.
Fuck NBC - Nazi Broadcasting Corp
Gross
They all are incredibly ignorant. Your opening sentences with “just as our founders intended” is spot on! It is sickening to think how low this country has gotten. Jeff-you win the prize for best journalist, in my opinion as you tell it like it is. Thanks for putting into words what I (we) are all thinking!
Tess: Add injecting humor into the post to maintain ourselves…
There have been bad, dumb, corrupt presidents (Harding, Andrew Johnson, Buchanan) before. Im not a student of the history of the Executive branch, and Trump is probably the most corrupt, but I dont think he planned this one. But that doesn't mean someone else didn't. Did they kill the assassin?
No, which is being pointed at as proof it was staged. Which makes zero sense since the shooter WAS killed in Butler, which people ridiculously still think was staged.
👏👏👏👏👏Same
“Every President for the last 150 years, have been DEMANDING that a large, safe, and secure Ballroom be built ON THE GROUNDS OF THE WHITE HOUSE.”
Uhhh… we happen to have 3 living Presidents who have served in the last 150 years. Maybe, just maybe, someone should ask them if they DEMANDED that! 🤔🤷♂️
- @jpj262.bsky.social
Trump also claimed that the military demands the ballroom. I'm sure that the servicemen deployed to his war, floating around endlessly, deprived of decent nutrition are begging with tears in their eyes for a big beautiful ballroom. In your dreams, Donald.
But why would the correspondents dinner be held in the White House ballroom?
To make Combover Caligula happy.
Eeeeeexelent, Smithers! I like the cut of your jib!
They, well most of them, were too busy doing their jobs to think about demolishing parts of the White House.
It’s worth noting that Donny has told the story several times about how he offered to build a ballroom for Obama, and he was turned down. So, not every president..
Response to botched assassination attempt: "We're gonna need a bigger ballroom!"
😂🤣👌🦈
🏆
Ok - TEARS IN MY EYES 🥹😅😂
“why is Stephen Miller using his wife as a shield? shouldn’t it be the other way around?”
I think he was just copping a feel in case they didn’t make it out alive
In all fairness, maybe the shooter was behind him.
As an aside, who the fork would marry that guy?
Seeing her pregnant, my reaction is "eeewwww", because we all know how babies are made and....🤢🤮
Let's just all pretend she has a really sexy gardener.
With horrible taste in women.
😂
This is spawn number four. EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!
Is her name "Rosemary"??
Reference!! I see what you did there.
Evidently Oz Pearlman guessed, Vivian, & he was correct ! He blows my mind.Such a mild mannered genius of reading micro expressions.
I suspect Elon impregnated her with his turkey baster when she was AWOL from Miller several months ago to ‘work’ at Space X.
As he is known to do at an assembly line pace.
Oh, are you unfamiliar with the odious Mrs. Miller?
Yes, since this is the first I've heard he was married.
They've long been the Odious Power Couple Of Evil. They're working to populate the earth with their demon spawn.
The "shooter" wasn't even on the same floor of the hotel.
The woman who thinks liberal men are all unattractive.
Good one! It's probably Elon's kid anyway, so who cares?
Gag me!
That's exactly what I was thinking!
The "now you see why we need the ballroom" nonsense only makes sense if he and future presidents never leave the White House. There will always be heightened danger in public, rallies, golf course, etc. Try again, Cankles.
“So weird Donald didn't stand up, ask for his shoes, defiantly raise his fist, and say "Fight, fight, fight…”
-@maryltrump.bsky.social
He stumbled going out. That made him forget his lines.
They sure did take their sweet time even getting to him. And only two secret service guys were by him. Vance was already out of the room by that time. I saw a pic of trump standing behind the curtain watching what was going on. Not sure if that was for real. We just never know anymore what’s real and what’s bullshit. I am completely over it.
A gun scare at the Correspondents’ Dinner and Trump’s first instinct was to sell America a bulletproof ballroom. That is not leadership. That is QVC for authoritarian panic. Blessed are the Secret Service agents doing cardio while the nation waits for one adult to say maybe fewer randos with guns would be nice.
Yeah, QVC filed for bankruptcy this week. They couldn't compete.
I'm in the "Faked" brigade on this one...too big a coincidence. Next, they'll burn the Reichstag.
Yes. Totes, Ron. I believe we’re gonna see many more of these before November. And I don’t think anyone among us feels safe with this particular FBI roaming.
Especially where there's an open bar.
😂😂😂
With eyes on.
What coincidence?
He holds all the cards alright. The Jokers.
😂
Staged or not, get ready for Trump and team to milk the shit out of the narrative to fit their agenda.
There will most likely be some commemorative merch, some praying and praising for protection of the chosen one, a new crypto offering, and perhaps a T-shirt for sale.
For those of us old enough to know, The Keystone Cops come immediately to mind.
Exactly what I said. My 26 year-old daughter and I were watching that same clip and I googled Keystone Cops to show her what it reminded me of and we laughed and laughed. Is that not the appropriate reaction to an assassination attempt on the president? It felt right.
You said it before I did. Yep, yep, yep.
Me too !
It was staged. At least this time no one got killed. And regardless of whether or not it was staged. Some facts caught on video - they got Vance out before Trump. Trump couldn't walk without assistance. They got Miller out before Hegseth. Macho man Hegseth ran from, not toward to gunfire. Patel stood around looking like he was waiting for an Uber. The was a clusterfuck of the first degree.
The greasy-headed war fighter ran? I'm shocked!
And they were all smiling in a group photo afterwards. Like, good game.
Oh, c’mon. This was completely staged. I expect that the perps will be reassigned to DHS any day now.
Esp when you see the horrible poll numbers released prior… yeesh
I agree. And so do a bazillion other people.