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Trump keeps watching shooting clip: ‘May legit have PTSD’
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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.
Just shows that empathy is reciprocative. He never showed empathy towards another human being, so now nobody feels it for him.
I remember people in various places talking/writing about how they were in public places when it was being televised on cable news, and almost no one was really paying that close of attention.
I won't say that couldn't have happened, but that shit was everywhere around me for like... 2 days
I don't have a whole lot of redhats in my every day activities, thankfully. But at one point, I thought they'd all be slapping bumper stickers and other stupid regalia all over their possessions and their bodies and I'd see it nearly everywhere.
I did see one parent that had their very young child wearing some shirt based on his photo-op after the shooting, I will say. That's some grade-A parenting right there, egad.
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.
When you screw over as many people as Trump has in his career, that's a legitimate worry.
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