Trump Keeps Watching Shooting Clip: ‘May Legit Have PTSD’
www.thedailybeast.com
Sources close to the ex-president’s campaign have said he’s particularly fixated on a single seven-second clip.

Those close to Donald Trump fear the former president “may have legit PTSD” from the assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally last month.

That’s according to a Vanity Fair report published Wednesday that claimed those in Trump’s inner circle have noticed that he’s become fixated on a seven-second clip that shows the moment he nearly lost his life.

“He’s been watching that seven-second clip of how close he was to getting shot right in the head—over and over and over again,” said a Republican close to the campaign, reported Vanity Fair.

  • CitizenKong@lemmy.world
    1474·
    4 months ago

    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.

    • Asafum@feddit.nl
      10·
      4 months ago

      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.

    • Hazzia@infosec.pub
      451·
      4 months ago

      Legit kinda hilarious how an actual assassination attempt completely got drown out by “new competition lol”

      • null@slrpnk.net
        341·
        4 months ago

        I’m genuinely thrilled with just how little attention that got.

        • CitizenKong@lemmy.world
          26·
          4 months ago

          Just shows that empathy is reciprocative. He never showed empathy towards another human being, so now nobody feels it for him.

          • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            4 months ago

            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.

            • Soulg@sh.itjust.works
              4·
              4 months ago

              I won’t say that couldn’t have happened, but that shit was everywhere around me for like… 2 days

              • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
                3·
                4 months ago

                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.

    • littlewonder@lemmy.world
      5·
      4 months ago

      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.