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Trump keeps watching shooting clip: ‘May legit have PTSD’

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Trump keeps watching shooting clip: ‘May legit have PTSD’ - Lemmy.World

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 [https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/trump-allies-fear-sabotaging-campaign] 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.

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TransplantedSconie Aug 15, 2024

Load him up on mushrooms before the debate. That should help with the PTSD.

Tiefling IRL Aug 15, 2024

Give him 8 grams of penis envy, I guarantee he’ll go for it

TropicalDingdong Aug 15, 2024

Instructions unclear.

Have reverted back to a state where the world is all The Flintstones and have identified “dabba dabba doo” as the universal tone that initiated the cosmos.

Viking_Hippie Aug 15, 2024

…there’s a drug called penis envy? 🤨

swab148 Aug 15, 2024

It’s a strain of mushrooms

Tiefling IRL Aug 15, 2024

A potent one at that

Viking_Hippie Aug 15, 2024

Nice lol, are they especially phallically shaped, or is it just a name?

Juniper (she/her) 🫐Aug 15, 2024

Phallic shaped

Viking_Hippie Aug 15, 2024

Lovely 😄

Maeve Aug 15, 2024

I always heard being in a fearful state before doing hallucinogenics caused a bad trip?

thesporkeffect Aug 15, 2024

Noooooo

It builds character

hohoho Aug 15, 2024

I mean, wouldn’t that be something. He takes a heroic dose, comes out the other side with a soul and a conscience, quits the race and preaches the power of the mushroom to all his followers. Can you imagine all them having an inner dialogue and waking up from the fever dream? Almost brings a tear to my eye.

TropicalDingdong Aug 15, 2024

gravitas_deficiency Aug 15, 2024

To shreds, you say?

TransplantedSconie Aug 15, 2024

Are you insinuating that the God Emperor is scared of a woman?!

Because you’d be correct.

He is absolutely terrified, will be completely screwed when that happens, and mushrooms would make it extremely entertaining for the rest of us. The VA is also conducting research into it.

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hate2bme Aug 15, 2024

I wouldn’t call it a bad trip, was great after I stopped thinking about what happened. That just took a while.

hate2bme Aug 15, 2024

I ate 5 grams of mushrooms 2 weeks after I was shot. Was not a good idea.

arefx Aug 15, 2024

Homie all you needed was like 1 or 2

gravitas_deficiency Aug 15, 2024

echo Aug 15, 2024

Well, they did try to kill the one person in the world that he cares about…

DogPeePoo Aug 15, 2024

His new “personal Vietnam”

pyre Aug 15, 2024

to be fair to him he kinda dodged this one too.

eestileib Aug 15, 2024

Too bad for him that he will refuse to see a therapist or psychiatrist because he thinks it’s a sign of weakness.

I’d certainly be fucked up if it had happened to me.

Fester Aug 15, 2024

He might get counseling from some evangelical pastor though, and come out of it even more terrible than he already is.

QuincyPeck Aug 15, 2024

Isn’t Trump a little old to be sexually assaulted by a pastor?

Lost_My_Mind Aug 15, 2024

I don’t know man…he still wears a diaper.

TransplantedSconie Aug 15, 2024

It’s so so sad that he’s bound for a nervous breakdown and potentially Harris slamming her hand on the podium with the right force and angle could potentially be a trigger for it.

subignition Aug 15, 2024

please let us have a real life ace attorney moment

ArxCyberwolf Aug 15, 2024

Dude is Redd White but somehow even more of a cartoonish parody of a rich man.

Archer Aug 15, 2024

Who would be a better female clown murderer, Boebert or MTG?

NegativeInf Aug 15, 2024

Not unprecedented. Even doing so intentionally isn’t new. Just look at Admiral James Stockdale in the 1992 election. Dude was a decorated Vietnam vet and former POW, but before a debate, someone thought it’d be a great idea to jingle some keys. Apparently, that was something his captors did to mess with him in Vietnam. Cue the PTSD flashback, and suddenly Stockdale’s looking disoriented on stage. So yeah, a well-placed podium slam? Could totally set off a meltdown.

vga Aug 15, 2024

I hope she brutally takes advantage of that.

Lost_My_Mind Aug 15, 2024

Well…would you have spent the last 8 years of your life spreading views of hate and racism?

Because I think thats what got him shot at.

Dkarma Aug 15, 2024

There is zero fucking chance he’s having an “am I the baddie?” Moment while watching this clip. He’s probably thinking how bad ass his hair looks or something about manliness blah blah.

Trump is a one trick pony.

TropicalDingdong Aug 15, 2024

Or he’s finally been confronted with his own mortality and its fucking with him in ways a life empty of any kind of introspection would.

abigscaryhobo Aug 15, 2024

Yeah I’m not giving him credit at all but there’s definitely a very real undeniable difference between talking smack and being threatened and all that and actually getting shot at, hit (even if barely) and nearly killed. Trump is an ego inflated asshole, but the sight of your own blood, especially at his age when death is already a daily thought I’m sure, can seriously fuck you up mentally.

TropicalDingdong Aug 15, 2024

Its funny right. If he could have just shut the fuck up and let the convention happen around him, and then not been a total fucking cunt, he probably could have coasted on that into November. He could have been a “changed man” like they were trying to set him up as and just stepped a bit back, been a bit more reserved and honestly, he would be much harder to beat.

Idk man. I have PTSD from my time in military service where I get woken up at night and have to do something. And that shit was a long ass time ago. It doesn’t really get better. I mean you can do drugs about it. Finding the company of others with a shared experience helps. But it doesn’t go away.

cuerdo Aug 15, 2024

Completely unqualified suggestion here but,

have you tried going for a run when you wake up at the middle of the night?

I was having the problem of waking up at 3am and unable to fall sleep, I started to embrace it, prepare some coffee, stretch a bit and then get out to run to a completely deserted city.

Running is very therapeutic, when you get intrussive thoughts, you just squeeze further running until your brain cannot focus on other thing than breathing.

I found a time-frame of therapy that only belongs to me and it has also helped me with the sleeping problems.

I am not qualified or anything and I don’t want to diminish your problem, but if it could help I just wanted to let it out.

Cheers.

Shelena Aug 15, 2024

Sorry to hear that. I have PTSD as well (but from other causes). For me EMDR, imagery rescripting and psychosomatic physiotherapy helped. It did not completely solve it, but it made it much better. Maybe some things to try if you have not done so, and you want to.

Burn_The_Right Aug 15, 2024

A conservative, especially a sociopathic narcissistic one, is incapable of introspection.

dexa_scantron Aug 15, 2024

It sounded like, from the shooter’s web searches, that if it had been Biden holding a rally hear the shooter’s house, Biden would have been shot at. It was less anything about Trump and more that the shooter wanted to shoot someone famous/important, from what I’ve seen.

eestileib Aug 15, 2024

I think that’s irrelevant. Nearly getting your brains blown out will fuck with your head regardless of anybody’s judgement of whether you deserved it.

TrickDacy Aug 15, 2024

I’m not sure the mindset of the person getting shot at is “heroes”

Thebeardedsinglemalt Aug 15, 2024

No, he’ll think he knows how to handle it better than a trained licensed therapist

gearheart Aug 15, 2024

Watching a clip of a firefighter getting murdered over and over again.

Dude is more worried about the shrapnel cut to his ear.

TropicalDingdong Aug 15, 2024

I mean, do you think an attempt on your life might fuck you up?

Dkarma Aug 15, 2024

Mature adults go to therapy. This is bonkers.

TropicalDingdong Aug 15, 2024

I mean he was bonkers before hand.

gearheart Aug 15, 2024

I agree It would…

Reality is more like… Someone else died.

Crowd went nuts. Ear hurt.

Secret service rushes you off stage.

Secret service tells you what happened.

Never actually experienced an actual threat.

Was not presented with fight or flight.

He just… basically heard about it and walked away with a cut.

TropicalDingdong Aug 15, 2024

I mean, he was present, fully. He recognized the moment and his positional within it to create one of the most iconic presidential images of all time.

So I dont know if I really agree with your framing.

Sterile_Technique Aug 15, 2024

firefighter

Nazi peon doesn’t become special because of his job or because he took a bullet intended for Nazi leader. Nothing of value was lost, except the opportunity to take out a larger pile of trash.

gearheart Aug 15, 2024

I’m trying hard to understand your point of view… It’s easy to be angry.

The problem I see is that the way you feel about the “peon” is probably the same way trump feels about him too. Trump feels everyone else as insignificant.

Unfortunately this means you and trump have very much in common.

Let that sink in…

Now… If that previous comment has not completely closed your mind…

Let’s try to be better humans together.

Orbituary Aug 15, 2024

I am not a Trump supporter or sympathizer. In fact, I hate that I have to qualify this at all, but nuance is dead on the internet.

You are speaking with a voice of logic. Trump should not have been shot at, nor should he have been killed. He was targeted unlawfully.

No person should die at the hands of another. We can’t judge each other effectively or objectively.

I may wish for trauma, pain, or more on someone, but I don’t earnestly believe anybody deserves it nor should we be the arbiters of death. Especially if it’s because of ideological differences.

Jiggle_Physics Aug 15, 2024

Trump would commonly pull a scam with his property development business where the company would high a bunch of local, small and medium, businesses in order to do most of the work. Then, in the days leading to the project being finished, would put forth a large amount of false complaints of things they did wrong. He would then refuse to pay, and sue. He would hold them up in court and bankrupt them if they didn’t just drop it, and walk away. He did this for decades. He destroyed hundreds, if not thousands, of small businesses this way. That is to say, he destroyed those people’s lives. He destroyed their families. There is a long list of contractors who killed themselves in the fall-out, left in the wake of his fraudulent business practices.

A man once slipped and fell in some event Trump was having. The guy’s head split open, and he was dying. Trump says he was mad that the blood was ruining his beautiful floor. He is a rapist, a pedophile, a con man. He definitely has bought any violence coming to him. Fuck him.

Orbituary Aug 15, 2024

Yes, fuck him.

But what are you advocating for? We all know he’s trash. So is our justice system. Are you angry with him? Or are you angry that our justice system is rigged in a way that lets him get away with this shit behavior repeatedly?

We would not know his deplorable name if it wasn’t for the him getting away with shitty behavior and flaunting that he didn’t get punished. He literally got convicted before our own eyes for something his own lawyer went to prison for, but remains largely unaffected.

THAT makes me angry and feel cheated. Do I hate him? Yes. Do I wish terrible things on him? Absolutely. Should I be his judge? Probably not.

Jiggle_Physics Aug 15, 2024

I am advocating for not giving a shit when someone murders him. Someone should have done that a long time ago.

Orbituary Aug 15, 2024

I basically said this. I know this is difficult because we’re on the internet, but I asked some nuanced questions that require a little more than key slapping. I’m genuinely curious if they matter at all.

For me, it’s our financial system that created this piece of shit and our judicial system that failed to keep him in check. He’s working and acting the way he does because he had a broken, corrupt family and was never taught moral code or an ethical framework. Yet our electoral system put him into power despite him not getting the majority. Our corporate media keeps airing him for the views. Our digital and print media keep covering him for the clicks…

WE are to blame because we the people cannot unfuck this country.

Jiggle_Physics Aug 15, 2024

That explains, but does not excuse. You can judge, it’s not some grey area, he did these things, he had the education to know better. The corrupt system explains how it came to be, but neither get off because of it. Trump is guilty, the system is guilty. Just because it is a lot easier to throw away Trump doesn’t mean we shouldn’t. While more, and more, draconic penalties do not continue to produce more, and more, deterrence, infinitely, the fact that there are serious penalties for your actions does have a major deterrence factor. Billionaires have had zero serious consequences to their actions. So giving them serious consequences is a first step towards systemic reform.

Orbituary Aug 15, 2024

The thing is, he’s not the only one. He just happens to be the most obnoxious and openly dangerous one.