worst thing he'd ever dealt with before that was like intense diarrhea or maybe a coke hangover

I think you're right.

I think it's something that would be traumatic regardless, but he has never truly been in danger before, and he knows he's not getting any younger – The IDEA that it really could happen to him Any Fucking Time is probably totally foreign and utterly terrifying.

Adding on that he's retraumatizing himself with the video repeatedly is a recipe for psychological disaster, which couldn't happen to a nicer person. Hopefully it's enough to keep him out of office, because The IDEA that someone with that level of unaddressed damage being in charge is pretty fuckin scary.

jfc

SHOTS FIRED,

惊弓之鸟

It's one of those assassinations where due to multiple factors, it failing actually ended up being the more successful outcome.

Maybe it worked as character assassination, which, good?

In the eyes of maga chuds anyway. In any case, good. All of these bastard politicians deserve to suffer. Dying quickly is too good for them. I won't be the one to do it, but they are the enemies of humanity.

Without a doubt most average hexbear posters could tweet better Trump speak than whoever they might have hired

Dubya, the shoe wasn't enough.

I'm not going to expand on this because it's too much to type here, way off topic, etc. but I experienced an attempted murder of myself (one of many people shot directly at by someone- I wasn't struck, but it was a mass casualty event including deaths). I have diagnosed PTSD from that event. I suspect almost everyone there that day including first responders afterwards probably have it PTSD.

Dealing with friends, family, etc. asking a billion times what happened right after (some for caring reasons, a lot for morbid curiosity which I don't totally fault people for) was really tiring. "Oh you're so lucky" and other such sentiments constantly expressed. "God was with you!" Like literally just a normal person version of all the stuff people say about Trump's shooting. I cannot imagine feeling compelled to immediately speak about it publicly every day basically with such specificity and allusions to "wow! Just a few inches, huh?!" all the time.

All that said, couldn't happen to a worse person. I recognize Trump has humanity as we all do, but he doesn't recognize that about millions if not billions of others on this planet. So, I hope they keep asking him questions about it.

If it were me personally, a question that would suck to keep hearing would be like "how do you feel that others died that day while you hid and then ran away?" If someone from CBS or something could just pepper that one in, I think we might legitimately see a crying Trump on TV. Or maybe he'd go silent in disbelief and internal emotions. Maybe he'd be fine. I dunno. I wanna see it though.

Particularly when you watch the majority of the entire country that you live in react by going "damn sucks he missed"

xd

I argue it's both in a way.

I think that he wanted that to be the definitive LE EPIC moment of US history, that he'd get an easy landslide electoral victory against , that he could ramble for hours about that LE EPIC moment on LE EPIC X DOT COM with without any attempts for to try to have a more focused apartheid-flavored fascist agenda for their planned upcoming new regime, and what devastated him was that his electoral opponent changed and just about no one fucking cares about the shooting anymore which is by design because Burgerland is that trained to "thoughts and prayers" such shootings away, especially if they're done by right wing groyper incels.

He is a narcissistic sociopath. The narcissist in my family can't stop looking at videos of themself, listening to their own off tune horrid singing. Super obsessed with their own looks and how they look to themselves in a mirror. Any minor scratch, pimple, single hair being off a few millimeters sends them into mania until it's just right.

I have a relative that's like that. He frets about having exactly perfect hair and it has to be styled pretty much exactly like and if for any reason it falls out of place (or if anyone points out how it's thinning out over time) he gets really upset, like shrieking levels of upset.

And yeah, he was punched once in his life by someone that he pushed too far (by trying to assault that person's girlfriend) and he never, ever let that go and wishes death and annihilation on everyone that vaguely resembles the guy that punched him.