Trump keeps watching shooting clip: ‘May legit have PTSD’

Well, they did try to kill the one person in the world that he cares about...
- His new “personal Vietnam”
  
  to be fair to him he kinda dodged this one too.

That's not PTSD. He's a narcissist and that was the last moment where he was the center of national attention and it looked like there was no way he could lose. Then Biden stepped down.
- Legit kinda hilarious how an actual assassination attempt completely got drown out by "new competition lol"
  
  I'm genuinely thrilled with just how little attention that got.
  
  It’s cause the shooter was conservative so they realized focusing on it would only end up making them look bad.
- Right on target. Self-obsessed...
- Idk, he has a history of obsession with being killed. Supposedly his fast food habits were formed because he could be anonymous, he'd send someone to get the food so he doesn't have to worry about being poisoned.
- I think I'd be traumatized by being an inch from a bullet to my brain. I also think Trump is mainlining toxic traits into his persona like "men don't cry" and "mental health is for pussies" so I wouldn't ever expect him to actually publicly admit to having feelings about it or getting support.
  Come to think of it, him not bringing up the shooting in every sentence out of his mouth for martyrdom points, seems really out of character. All we got subjected to was a comically large, stark white bandage at the GOP convention. The lack of milking it for sympathy ad nauseum makes me think he really is affected by it.
- Yup, nailed it

Too bad for him that he will refuse to see a therapist or psychiatrist because he thinks it's a sign of weakness.
I'd certainly be fucked up if it had happened to me.
- It's so so sad that he's bound for a nervous breakdown and potentially Harris slamming her hand on the podium with the right force and angle could potentially be a trigger for it.
  
  please let us have a real life ace attorney moment
  
  Not unprecedented. Even doing so intentionally isn’t new. Just look at Admiral James Stockdale in the 1992 election. Dude was a decorated Vietnam vet and former POW, but before a debate, someone thought it’d be a great idea to jingle some keys. Apparently, that was something his captors did to mess with him in Vietnam. Cue the PTSD flashback, and suddenly Stockdale’s looking disoriented on stage. So yeah, a well-placed podium slam? Could totally set off a meltdown.
  
  I hope she brutally takes advantage of that.
- He might get counseling from some evangelical pastor though, and come out of it even more terrible than he already is.
  
  Isn’t Trump a little old to be sexually assaulted by a pastor?
- Well....would you have spent the last 8 years of your life spreading views of hate and racism?
  Because I think thats what got him shot at.
  
  There is zero fucking chance he's having an "am I the baddie?" Moment while watching this clip. He's probably thinking how bad ass his hair looks or something about manliness blah blah.
  Trump is a one trick pony.
  
  It sounded like, from the shooter's web searches, that if it had been Biden holding a rally hear the shooter's house, Biden would have been shot at. It was less anything about Trump and more that the shooter wanted to shoot someone famous/important, from what I've seen.
  
  I think that's irrelevant. Nearly getting your brains blown out will fuck with your head regardless of anybody's judgement of whether you deserved it.
- No, he'll think he knows how to handle it better than a trained licensed therapist

Load him up on mushrooms before the debate. That should help with the PTSD.
- Give him 8 grams of penis envy, I guarantee he'll go for it on the name alone
  
  Instructions unclear.
  Have reverted back to a state where the world is all The Flintstones and have identified "dabba dabba doo" as the universal tone that initiated the cosmos.
  
  ..there's a drug called penis envy? 🤨
- I always heard being in a fearful state before doing hallucinogenics caused a bad trip?
  
  Are you insinuating that the God Emperor is scared of a woman?!
  Because you'd be correct.
  He is absolutely terrified, will be completely screwed when that happens, and mushrooms would make it extremely entertaining for the rest of us. The VA is also conducting research into it.
  
  Noooooo
  It builds character
  
  I wouldn't call it a bad trip, was great after I stopped thinking about what happened. That just took a while.
- I ate 5 grams of mushrooms 2 weeks after I was shot. Was not a good idea.
  
  Homie all you needed was like 1 or 2

May he spend the rest of his life in a degree of suffering to that which he caused.
- I hope it wakes him up in a cold sweat every night until the day his soul leaves his greasy orange carcass

Look, Donnie, PTSD sucks. Unlike your cult, those of us working against you do want you to seek treatment. Like legitimately. We want you to get better.
But also like fuck off while you're doing that.
Thaaanks.
Signed,
Everyone Else
- God... Imagine having to be his therapist... Anyone who's able to make even a little progress with him would deserve a Nobel prize
  
  Sisyphus would look on and thank his good fortune.
  
  Lol, therapy (and just the act of starting therapy) requires the ability to self-reflect and be self-critical.
  He's not capable of either.

That's not PTSD. That's a fixation, maybe an epiphany on his mortality. There's a whole range of symptoms he'd need to be displaying at least some of. Calling that PTSD is problematic on so many levels.
- I can't stand the guy, but PTSD can manifest in several different ways. I'm willing to bet obsessing over the event is one of those ways
  Edit: it could also just be "post traumatic stress" without it being a disorder. I'm not a professional and I don't know trump personally, but I would like to warn against telling people this isn't what PTSD looks like because someone might not seek treatment due to misunderstanding their affliction
  
  It is but what other symptoms does he have? And will he have them months from now? It's absolutely normal to obsess over a near death experience in the short term.
- hate to be that guy, but you haven't cited any sources, so:
  Are you qualified to make that statement?
  
  Maggoty is a licensed clinical psychologist with 30 years experience in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders and trauma. He co-authored the most widely used academic textbook on the subject and served as an adviser to the Obama administration for 4 years.
  
  More qualified than some random campaign staffer. For now let's just say I came by this name honestly.
- Ain’t no way. They are putting this in the media because no one cares about someone shooting at him and they are desperate to explain why he’s only don’t small indoor rally’s now. They don’t want people to notice he has no supporters anymore.
- I would think if it were PTSD he would have a hard time speaking to a crowd again but that is definitely not the case.
  
  He is having trouble speaking in front of crowds. Not because of that, mind you. But because the crowds aren't showing up.
  
  It’s just Trump watching himself and internalizing about how brave and wonderful he is.

Is it PTSD or is he fixated on the last moment he thought he'd win before Biden dropped out and everything fell apart for him?

Watching a clip of a firefighter getting murdered over and over again.
Dude is more worried about the shrapnel cut to his ear.
- I mean, do you think an attempt on your life might fuck you up?
  
  I agree It would...
  Reality is more like... Someone else died.
  Crowd went nuts. Ear hurt.
  Secret service rushes you off stage.
  Secret service tells you what happened.
  Never actually experienced an actual threat.
  Was not presented with fight or flight.
  He just.. basically heard about it and walked away with a cut.
  
  Mature adults go to therapy. This is bonkers.
- firefighter
  Nazi peon doesn't become special because of his job or because he took a bullet intended for Nazi leader. Nothing of value was lost, except the opportunity to take out a larger pile of trash.
  
  I'm trying hard to understand your point of view... It's easy to be angry.
  The problem I see is that the way you feel about the "peon" is probably the same way trump feels about him too. Trump feels everyone else as insignificant.
  Unfortunately this means you and trump have very much in common.
  Let that sink in...
  Now... If that previous comment has not completely closed your mind...
  Let's try to be better humans together.

We all know what else in this vid. The cinematographic rise of Trump from under security agents with a fist. He is nutting over how great he is at that moment.
- Let's be real, that Pic is going in textbooks.
  
  Yes, hopefully in the section on how he, possibly the worst president in U.S. history, tried to destroy American democracy.
  Just because that picture looks "strong" doesn't mean he'll be remembered that way.
  
  Yeah, but, like, he didn't do anything for such a legacy, he happened into his own Triumph of the Will moment by a coincidence of so much mistakes. There's though no wonder why he's seen as a messiah by his cultists and he sees it as a personal gift from the god, the recognition he didn't have in his family as per biographies.
  
  It's already been wrapped around a cyber truck. It can't get any more important than that.
- Yeah, who knows what's going on in that head of his. In a moment when most people would be in momentary shock unable to process what just happened quickly enough, Trump knew immediately that he needed his shoes. Then stood triumphantly with blood running down his face and a dead body behind him.
  Edit: when the transcript of the secret service communications was released i was shocked that Trump would be so concerned about his shoes. I immediately assumed, set up, he's trying to move on to the next part of the act in full costume.
  Now after posting this and thinking about it more, I can see someone, in that moment, being disoriented, noticing they're bare footed, and focus on that. I still know that Trump is a pos.

If this was anyone but Trump, I'd probably feel bad for him.
However, since it's Donnie, all I can say is that I like Presidential candidates who don't get shot.
- Man, u boutta make the monkey paw curl. Can u not?
  
  If Trump starts campaining in a army combat helmet, ala Dukakis, it will be worth it.

It was a lesson and he learned all the wrong things.
I hope it tears him up inside and he suffers as much as he's hurt others.

Add it to the list of dangerous qualities for the President of the United States to have. Cool stuff.
- Paranoia is what got to Nixon.

I care about as much as he cares of all the people, especially kids, killed in mass shootings.

Thoughts and prayers

In his shoes, I'd be traumatized by the huge percentage of people that are disappointed by the poor aim. I'm one of those people. Only good Nazi is a dead one.
- Just 4 more inches to the right and I could have told my uncle it's fake and trump's coming back with JFK at the plaza.

Fuck his PTSD, how about what he inflicted on America.

I imagine most people would have some form of PTSD even being at the same event, never mind being the target.
Donnie should seriously seek mental help if he's not getting it already - unlike many Americans, he can afford it.

To be fair, who wouldn't?
- I think what makes it worse for Trump is that it was a registered Republican that was the shooter, aka, his own "side".

Could it be the geriatric orange infant has never considered his own mortality?
- He has to go on stages and still doesn't know why the protection detail was so lacking in ... execution.
  He has no reason to think they will be up to the challenge if another attempt is made.
  I could see that messing up someone's mind.
  
  He got shot bc he couldn't get indoor venues to rent to him due to his long history of not paying his bills. Karma finally almost came calling.
- This will change nothing. This is quite possibly the most narcissistic human in at least a century, the only thing PTSD would do is make his behavior worse and more erratic.
  
  Yeah. He will just have to have the longest table. You know a table with two zip codes. After all putin is his role model. .
- If he can't sell it in cheap gold I don't see how he can have ever considered anything

That sucks, maybe he should take some time off and get his shit together? I think we'd all understand if he dropped out and thought about retirement.

he could just not run and avoid the risk
- No. GOP should have him for every office for as long as he can rally.

As a person he presents as such a terrible person.
But as a human being, I feel for him and don't think anyone - even the worst of us - deserves PTSD.
Mr Trump deserves a long life in a very thick-walled cell, and needs to think on the terrible things he's done and how it affects others. This isn't possible if he's dead.
- He isn't capable of self reflection or remorse. He's a sociopathic narcissist. I do hope he ends up in prison long enough to suffer the humiliation and degradation he so richly deserves while he witnesses the world slowly forget all about him
- Not endorsing violence, but I don't think he deserves a long life. He's done plenty of harm, and him thinking about it doesn't help anything. It only allows him to continue to be a threat. However, I think an assassination would be the worst possible outcome. It'd give power to all of those using him. Power that they don't have as long as he's alive. He'd become a symbol, and all the horrible things he's done would be forgotten. He's better alive and losing the election and all credibility and support.
  
  Well, the violence came from his side. That's how they roll. Expect more of it. They can't stop. Be prepared.
- No, he doesn't.

Yeah I still can't get over how a couple of days later his right ear didn't have a mark on it. At his age, even with the best of plastic surgery, he wouldn't have clean skin on an ear for at least a week if he'd actually had a bullet pass through any part of it. I don't believe things he has to say about his health- he has a pretty solid track record when it comes to not telling the truth about his height, weight, bone spurs, being a stable genius, etc
- Okay, but what's the alternative? Trump faked the whole thing in some sort of false flag? He planted a fake gunman to get killed by the secret service, and put two of his close supporters in the hospital in critical condition, for a bump in the polls, when he was already confident that he could beat Biden? Is that really a more plausible explanation than "someone decided to kill Trump over the Epstein files, missed, and was killed"? I absolutely hate the guy, buy I just don't buy it. I can accept "he got hit by a shard of glass instead of a bullet" or "he got grazed elsewhere and it just looks like he was hit in the ear" but claiming the whole thing was faked is just a bridge too far.
  We're supposed to be above this type of shaky conspiracy theory level thinking.
  
  FWIW, I didn't read anything in BM's post that made me think he was arguing the incident was fake. I interpreted that (s)he was saying it probably was other debris or shrapnel, and he's insisting it was an actual slug to look like a tough guy.
- Are you suggesting that Trump is a supe with superhuman healing abilities?
  
  If he had adamantium claws he would have shown them off by now

Is he still crying about the ear thing? What a snowflake.

This is a good opportunity to memorize the difference between empathy and sympathy, if you haven’t already.
- Also "shaudenfruede".

Tbh, are we sure he just doesn’t feel strong? Like. I know some jocks that like to watch their last best over and over again.
It maybe this will be good and get him to finally realize words have meanings and power and he’s choosing words of hate.
(Maybe this time if I do hold my breath.)
- Tbh, I think it's just the dementia.

I wish him everything he deserves.

PTSD is serious and difficult to live with and I feel sorry for anyone who has it. Not really something to joke about.
I would be freaked out too if I almost got assassinated. He is a human being.
I don't want him to be president. But that doesn't change my basic humanity for the victim of a crime.
- I have PTSD. I have zero sympathy for him. I hope he suffers even more than me.
  
  Well, you can have PTSD and be a dick, both are possible.
- Where is Trump's basic humanity for all the people he's hurt?
- nah, no sympathy. most people with ptsd probably didn't fuck around like there are no consequences for your actions. this fucker deserves every bad thing that is coming to him, including finding out that he is hated and people want him dead.
- Are we absolutely sure about that human thing? Color me skeptical.
- Agreed with what you said, but nah, fuck him.
- He is a human being.
  I have real trouble with this. He seems to lack any kind of human qualities - no empathy, no wit or warmth.
  If someone ripped his orange mask off, Scooby Doo style, and it revealed some kind of mindless racist/sexist slur and weak-insult spouting robot underneath, I think it would explain a lot.
  
  We see his public facing persona. It says things that are more or less within the realm of normal for most of society.
  I bet when he is with the wealthy follks the real Don comes out. Says things that rich and wealthy want to hear, akin to agenda 2025 but more focused on poors being confined while they still get to break laws.
- Nah, fuck him. I'm just worried it'll make him more erratic.
- I would be freaked out too if I almost got assassinated. He is a human being.
  Donald Dump is an especially self absorbed human being so he almost surely freaked out even more than a normal person would.

Good. Fuck Trump.

Not PTSD, a malignant narcissist obsessed with himself.

At least he is not shitposting while bingewatching. If it keeps him busy, off the road and off the net, fine with me.

It isn't PTSD. It is him being upset that it didn't get him more sympathy.

Has anybody considered an angel helped guide the shooter to nick trump's ear thus giving a new level of paranoia.
- I'm honestly not sure if this is a better outcome than him being dead. I think the new even more paranoid batshit Trump is doing way more damage than his literal death would have
  
  Well there's still time to find out if thats something you want to act on.

Good. Some might pay good money to see him in a fetal position sobbing with his thumb in his lying mouth

Don't worry, he's too much of a dumbass to go see a therapist about it. Instead he'll just bottle it up so fester into a new mental illness to add to the pile.

Yeah I do not like the man at all whatsoever, but I wish this didn't happen. Even for his own sake.
- I respect your opinion but cannot agree, and I don’t care if others see that as wrong. He is a vile human who deserves nothing.
  
  He deserves less than nothing.
- The first thing he did after getting shot was blame democrats instead of stopping the nazi rhetoric
  That's despite them laughing and joking that palosis husband got attacked. They supported Trump and still get blamed. He has no honour whatsoever. He's still a massive lier who has promised suffering to many who elect him and to impede justice
  The only reason I wish it didn't happen is because it puts other politicians at risk and further empowers right wing crazies
  Honestly, he deserved it. He deserves jail (he raped multiple women). He defamed the women he raped. He cheated his way through life and brags about screwing over the trades he hires ruining their lives. He's degrading the rights of everyone he isn't and marked a return of racism and bigotry. He makes jokes about other people getting injured. He's a bully
  He uses people, and abuses them and is following a mafia playbook.
  The only surprise is that it took so long honestly... Everyone expected it eventually (especially after he promised to be a dictator and free criminals).
  It's not a surprise it was a registered republican who did the shooting either, because many of them have probably felt screwed over by him too and there are some decent people on that side too who are likely sick of the extremism
  
  After getting shot AT* Theres no proof he was hit or even grazed by a round.
- It's the closest thing to justice we are likely to ever get.
- I wish it didn't happen, but I would have much rather it have been an assassination instead of an attempt.
  My current hope is that he lives long enough to see Harris win in a landslide. Then he can die.

Maybe he'll get access to a therapist once he's in prison. Group therapy once a month, individual sessions once a year or so, that's about how it goes for incarcerated folks I hear. It won't be a lot of help, but then again, he doesn't deserve any.

If he has PTSD, isn't he unqualified to be a president?
- It's pretty far down the list of reasons he already has
- No, you can have PTSD and be president.

I read that as “Trump keeps watching shooting clip: May legit have STD,” and it makes no difference

I think he loves it and gets off on it.

Trump: "Rage adrenaline doesn't do it for me anymore. Now only fear of death adrenaline is enough to focus me."
- Motherfucker would end up like David Carradine

Awww does he cry himself to sleep at night? Get cold sweats?

2 Legit 2 Quit
Also:
Do people not say “legitimate” anymore?
- Nah. It's not legit, so they quit.
- why would they, it's two extra syllables that add nothing to the meaning.
  
  why would they, it's two extra sylls that add noth to the meang.

He should leave the race and get therapy before he goes to prison, that is the best I can hope for him. Get out.

"a lot of people say I got a good ear. the best ear. they're smart people. this ear fooled that bullet from hitting this youthful head. let's see that stable genius moment again"
... is probably what he's thinking
but i am not a mind reader.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23cSs1rvbUQ

Convince me it wasn't their own false flag. #OperationConserve
- I have seen more evidence that it was a false flag than evidence supporting that he was shot in the ear.

He just wants to figure out how to use it to his advantage, like everything else.

Shot with a piece of glass? Where is the damage to his ear? What glass object was broken, and why have no pictures of it surfaced ever?

I wonder why it’s a 7 second clip and not the whole thing?

This is insulting to people who really suffer with PTSD, and shows an ignorance of our modern understanding of trauma.
- I don't know man.....I don't like trump, at all, but getting intentionally targeted by an assasin, and only surviving because you unknowingly turned your head just the right way to make the bullet miss by inches seems like a legit reason to develop actual PTSD.
  Theres lots of reasons to hate trump, but if you dehumanize him you run the same risk that 1940s had with hitler. If you think of him as a monster, you stop thinking of him as human. If you stop thinking of him as human, it's easy to dismiss his behavior and actions as being not something a human would do. And once you do that you open the door for it to happen in the future.
  Everything trump and hitler have done are fully able to be done by someone else. As terrible as they are, they're still human.
  
  You could have a decent thought here if it weren't for his response to BLM movement, trying to call in the national guard to crowd control with live ammo, the border and war crimes, as well his assault on the court system and attack on reproductive/women's rights. That among many other things no one remembers. The sheer volume of trauma he's generated in the world easily negates any sympathy in my mind.
  As a human he deserves medical and psychological treatment like anyone else as that's a human right imo. One which he's happy to ignore for others. By no means would i ever feel a shred of sympathy for the fleshpile.
  Complex PTSD needs to be in the DSM...
  
  That's not at all how PTSD works. Bad things happen to people all the time and they don't develop PTSD. It's insulting to people who really deal with it.
  
  This sounds like you don't have an understanding of how PTSD works.
- PTSD is not "something bad happened and now I have feelings". It does not automatically happen after a major event. It's a lot more complicated, and y'all are not psychiatrists. It's insulting to throw the word around and use it for politics.
  Reminds me of people saying "omg 'm so OCD!" Because they like a clean house. That's not what OCD is, and getting shot is not what PTSD is.

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