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.
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.
Fuck his PTSD, how about what he inflicted on America.
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”.
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?
he could just not run and avoid the risk
No. GOP should have him for every office for as long as he can rally.
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.
I don’t think it’s normal to seek it out and relive it, though.
It is. Like the other symptoms it’s a problem if it persists or gets in the way of other things.
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.
That would be hilarious and true to the nature of the Internet but no.
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.
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.
I wish him everything he deserves.
Good. Fuck Trump.
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.
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.
Right on target. Self-obsessed…
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Sisyphus would look on and thank his good fortune.
Pretty sure the rock would roll uphill on its own if Drumph came calling.
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?
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.
I personally did read it that way, but I will concede that perhaps I was being uncharitable.
Regardless, I have seen people explicitly questioning whether it was faked elsewhere, and it makes me cringe every time. Talking about this serves literally zero purpose–it makes the left look crazy, any alternative explanations that make Trump look bad fall apart under the barest scrutiny, and it just serves to keep the assassination attempt in peoples’ minds. There are literally hundreds of other things to complain about Trump over, talking about this doesn’t help.
Agreed 105%, plus it’s also just plain stupid. Nobody within half a mile of Trump’s inner circle has any real competence, so the idea that any/all of them could successfully pull off a faked assassination is probably more absurd than flat earthers telling us the moon landing was rigged.
The only way I could buy it is if it came out that it was faked, but their plan involved keeping the gunman alive so he could spout fake-leftist buzzwords and they either didn’t realize that the secret service shoots to kill, or forgot to clue them into the plan ahead of time.
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
