#what happened to trump today

[davidwarner3]

FBI investigating apparent assassination attempt on Trump in Florida

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[usa-tnews]

FBI investigating apparent assassination attempt on Trump in Florida

The FBI said it “is investigating what appears to be an attempted assassination” of Donald Trump at his Florida golf club. Trump was not harmed in the incident.

The Secret Service had spotted a rifle barrel sticking out of a fence and agents fired at a man who was in the bushes along the perimeter, according to Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw. The suspect fled in a car and was detained after being stopped on the highway.

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[endlesslycoffee]

today I lost my country

medio pais voto al olvido, el odio y la locura

lamentablemente, "nunca más" no se entendió

ahora a luchar

[bluefox4]

Hey, figured I'd just mention this. At the time that Trump was shot, I was at work and couldn't check my phone. No information was known about the shooter. But I heard several people say that the Democrats were evil and clearly behind trying to kill Trump.

The Right is going to use this as an opportunity to rally people to Trump's side. After all, someone just tried to kill him. Clearly he is the victim in all of this. Clearly he should win the election because he nearly died.

I don't care about the memes at the moment because the Right is going to use that to say that the Left is violent and were clearly behind it. It won't matter if this was a lone actor. There are many people that are already convinced that this was the work of Democrats with zero information.

So, please remember go vote Blue all the way down. There are going to be a rush of people voting for Trump out of a sympathy for him.

[pollyanna-nana]

Look. All I’m saying is maybe if they used the Splatoon gun things would be different,

[sortanonymous]

Just so you know, I'm on the good side with y'all. I do not want this presidency, this tyranny, and I'm ashamed that the Republican running mate is from Ohio.

[cheddertm]

Today in the afterlife:

The eggs got to go to the QSMP as ghosts and just haunt around! Mumza lets them go every once in a while since it can get boring in their little house with the TV.

Bobby went to his castle while Trump went to try and find Maximus. Tilin and Juanaflippa stayed together for most of their trip, but split up halfway since Tilin wanted to see how Quackity was holding up. So Juanaflippa just wandered around the place looking for something interesting or fun happening.

She sees Missa and Chayanne and decides to follow them since they’re fuckin far from spawn. Then she sees the sign Chayanne put about them, and something kinda connects that for all Chayanne knows, they’re never seeing each other again.

Juanaflippa tries to give him a hug and then leaves back to the house, she doesn’t feel like exploring anymore.

[fly-sky-high-09]

"I didn't teach you to wish someone no matter how bad of a person they are to be dead"

Yeah, thanks for that, genuinely, but I also learned those same people wouldn't give a crap about us in '99 if we were just "mistakingly" bombed as casualty so. Yeah. Some bad people with so much power and no sense or care about regular people should not exist and I will not care for their lives if they don't care for thousands of others while even something as court or justice can't touch them. So fuck them. You thought me differently but the world doesn't share that viewpoint, unfortunately.

[sylvies-kablooie]

important moments in history scorecard, in chronological order: or, where was tumblr user sylvies-kablooie when things went down?

announcement of covid lockdown: at a friend's house. we laughed nervously.

jan 6th: taking a nap. woke up to a lot of confusion.

queen died: in class. we were broken up for group work, so i told my professor. he thought i was speaking in some sort of code. no sir.

trump assassination attempt: scrolling reddit aita posts because my tummy hurt too bad to think real thoughts. i was then forced to think real thoughts.

[aimless-passerby]

Да заебался уже отца слушать. Каждый день негатив, какие человеки тупые, плохие. Этот идиот, та идиотка, учёные какие-то не такие, верующие не такие. Один он самый умный. Бля.

[sherlock-is-ace]

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[shinobicyrus]

In a craven, pathetic, cynical, and transparently desperate ploy to energize his torpid 2024 campaign and match his rival Desantis, Twice-Impeached Ex-President Trump has shuffled out of his Florida tanning tank to join the gibbering chorus of Far-Right trans-panic by releasing a video on Truth Social. The full statement amounts to a hate-ridden, incendiary rant that proposes nationwide federal action that would threaten the health and well-being of trans people, in particular trans children, and will use the law to enforce a rigid, hetero-normative, cisgender social order.

You can watch the full video here on Forbes  if you choose to. I advise against it, personally. The years since his removal from public office and most social media seems to have had atrophied my tolerance. It’s probably why I was somehow shocked at how a video less than four minutes long can cram so much ignorance, falsehoods, hateful invective, and unhinged demagoguery in such a short period of time.

Pages of ink could be spilled breaking down every ranting tangent, from threats to prosecute doctors and hospitals providing gender affirming care, the distasteful novelty of calling trans children mutants,  inventing a conspiracy of pharmaceutical companies selling unsafe hormones and puberty blockers to children, and proposes using the federal government to “promote” aka enforce “positive education of the nuclear family” and the “role of mothers and fathers,” sprinkled with some good old fashioned sex-based bio-essentialism.

The crescendo, the real red meat dripping with bloody doctrine, is at the end:

“I will ask congress to pass a bill establishing that the only genders recognized by the United States Government are male and female and they are assigned at birth.”

“The Bill will also make clear that Title 9 prohibits men from participating in womens’ sports and we will protect the rights of parents from being forced to allow their minor child to assume a gender which is new and an identity without the parents’ consent. The identity will not be new and it will not be without parental consent.”

“No serious country should be telling its children that they were born with the wrong gender, a concept that was never heard of in all of human history - nobody’s ever heard of this, what’s happening today - it was all when the radical left invented it just a few years ago.”

He ends it all with a chilling conclusion. “Under my leadership, this madness will end.”

I’ve done my best since his departure from office to avoid talking about this sad orange failure puttering around his private golf course while lawsuits and legal investigations pile around him. But I’ve heard little mainstream discussion of this announcement; how Far-Right transphobic rhetoric is being elevated to the level of presidential politics.

While Trump was never friendly to the LGBTQ community, he was also prone to mocking the likes of Pence for his desire of wanting to “hang the gays.” Did his Administration do harm to the queer community? Yes, undeniably so. But to me it felt obligatory, with little energy or drive behind it, as Trump ultimately didn’t care. The callous apathy of an incurious narcissist.

Now, whether he believes the nonsense he’s spewing or not, Trump sees that the Republican base has been driven to a mad fervor over the existence of trans folks. So, like the cynical, amoral opportunist he is, he will regurgitate the vile hateful garbage his speechwriters feed him for political and financial gain.

Whether he gets the nomination or not, this announcement will set the tone for the entire Republican presidential primary of 2024.

[azurecanary]

I legitimately feel insane rn

[milo-is-rambling]

Sometimes this -> :)))) is just not strong enough for what I mean

[xinanigans]

Being alive to witness New York v. Trump is insane

Photo is up for satirical reasons (I don’t like trump guys)

[wilwheaton]

For some odd reason, moderator Jake Tapper told Trump in the beginning that he didn't need to answer the questions and that he could use the time however he wanted. Trump ran with that, essentially giving a rally speech whenever he had the floor and was unresponsive to the vast majority of the questions. He made faces and insulted Biden to his face, at one point calling him a criminal and a Manchurian candidate. If anyone had said 10 years ago that this would happen at a presidential debate they would have been laughed out of the room. After the debate when most of the country had turned off cable news or gone to bed, CNN aired its fact check. [...] Even had Joe Biden been at the top of his game, he would not have been able to parry all those lies and he shouldn't have been put in the role of being Donald Trump's fact checker. His choice was to either ignore the lies and let them stand so he could use his time to make his own case or spend the entire debate correcting the record. It was not a fair fight. It's obvious that Biden's terrible performance has caused panic among Democrats and liberal pundits and analysts. The calls for him to withdraw are loud and meaningful and it's going to be a very rough period in this campaign whatever happens. For me, this isn't really a question. As long as Donald Trump is on the ballot, I will vote for the Democratic nominee. If it's Biden or someone else, the calculation remains the same. Nothing is worse than another Trump administration and I suspect that at the end of the day Democratic voters will agree with that. So it's still a matter of those undecided voters in swing states, just like it was on Thursday morning.

CNN's debate was no fair fight

CNN, yet again, gave Trump a national stage to vomit an endless stream of unchecked lies, and today, CNN is telling itself and anyone who will listen that the network and its moderators did a great job. That’s just plainly false, and America is paying the price for their failure.

That doesn’t let Biden off the hook. Biden had a terrible night. He was so bad, it’s allowed the political press to completely ignore not just how much Trump lied, but what he lied about: January 6, all his indictments, his Covid response, and on and on. President Biden was a disaster, and his campaign should be at DefCon 1 to try and repair all the damage. I am terrified that his awful performance will obscure his surprisingly good record and leadership in the post-insurrection era, and give the political press an excuse to run with “Biden is old” in the face of Trump’s endless lies, his felony convictions, his pending trials, and all of his criminality. Someone at Salon said that Trump didn’t win, but Biden absolutely lost. I can’t argue with that, even if the facts are all on Biden’s side.

I’ve seen President Biden on TV today, and even last night after the debate, where he didn’t come across as an ancient dude who needs a walker on his way to some Matlock reruns. He looks and sounds like the SOTU Biden we all expected would show up last night. I have no idea why he was so awful for 99% of the debate (the campaign says he has a cold), and I have no idea why the guy who is showing up to speak to supporters today, and who delivered the SOTU didn’t show up last night to save America from Trump, again.

But we have to live with this reality now, and I hope like hell that the Biden campaign, the candidate, and the entire Democratic party apparatus scrambles like fucking crazy to get all hands on deck to fix this, and remind voters that

This isn’t about BIden vs. Trump. This is about America vs. Project 2025.

There will be no second debate where Biden can try to salvage something out of the wreckage of this one. Trump has everything to lose and nothing to gain. Trump will crow about how he won, and declare he has no reason to debate again, and he’s right. Biden had one shot and he absolutely blew it. The moderators did not help, but the campaign had to have known they wouldn’t, and it sure looks like they didn’t prepare Biden for what we all knew was coming. I don’t know how those same people stop the bleeding, and if they can’t, America and the world are in real, real trouble.

But we all have to remember that we have a choice to make in just a few months. Right now, and probably on election day, the choice is between Joe Biden and Democracy, or Donald Trump and Fascism. It’s stark, it’s clear, it’s binary, and I can not believe that it is even a question. I just hope that there are enough voters out there who will understand that we do have a choice. The options suck, but we do have a choice.

Please choose Democracy. Please choose America. Please choose the future world our children will inherit from us.