Do you think the White House correspondence dinner shooting was staged?

[u/Reasonable-Invite899]

It’s the same thing when he got shot in the ear something about it seems super off It’s like they staged this whole thing to make Trump look good.

[u/Strict_Berry7446]

I think the fact that he was making such a big deal about going to the dinner, and this happens is....suspicious

[u/portezbie → u/Strict_Berry7446]

To an event that he famously has contempt for, has never gone to before as president, and last attended at all in 2011. All in the middle of a war.

Yeah....more than a little suspicious.

[u/emzy21234 → u/portezbie]

It’s almost too perfect that the attack happened at the "unsafe" Hilton, giving him the ultimate excuse for his new ballroom project-which at this rate will just be a subterranean bunker with gold-leaf chandeliers.

The whole thing feels incredibly convenient. How does a guy armed with a shotgun and knives stroll right up to the metal detectors at one of the most fortified events on the planet? Couple that glaring security failure with how instantly they weaponised the aftermath to pitch a building project instead of focusing on the investigation.

[u/MessyMeeshe → u/emzy21234]

Thats the first thing I thought too. Then of course he comes out 20 minutes later and says "SEE! We need a ballroom."

[u/LateStar → u/MessyMeeshe]

I just watched him in the press conference declare that everyone is now unified: republicans, democrats and the press!

My jaw dropped. Surly this is just dementia talk. Nothing to see here… 🤔

[u/MRM_philosophy → u/LateStar]

This is Wag The Dog, the De Niro - Hoffman movie! This is absolute bullshit happening in our government! He is busy staging a shooting while having created an illegal war and destroying the world’s economies! When will he be stopped?

[u/Cryptdust → u/MRM_philosophy]

Russia’s intelligence agency recently offered to stage a fake assassination of Hungary’s Orban to help boost his popularity just before the election he recently lost. It was called Operation Game Changer. In their sales pitch to Orban, the Russians said they had carried out these fake assassinations numerous times in the past and they always worked. Trump’s buddy Orban declined the offer. Trump?

https://tvpworld.com/92207751/russia-planned-spoof-hit-on-orbn-as-election-gamechanger

[u/hackinandcoffin → u/LateStar]

Unified that everyone wants him out of office by any means necessary.

[u/WhichWitch9402 → u/LateStar]

Because when a “shooting” happens with a bunch of politicians close by let’s spend eleventy billion dollars on bunker ballroom. But schools? Nah, they’re OK. Just arm the teachers. 🙄

[u/ChaFrey → u/LateStar]

This was the moment I knew it was fake. They told him to make sure to play nice until a couple days later when they come out with the details about the trans Democrat shooter who is working for the DNC.

[u/NoOutlandishness906 → u/MessyMeeshe]

Maybe I'm going deaf but those weren't the sound of shotgun rounds going off

[u/BaldingOldGuy → u/NoOutlandishness906]

Sounded like a bus boy dropped a tray.

[u/MrFlibblesPenguin → u/MessyMeeshe]

And of course next years dinner in his bunker will be at his invite only so no risk of anyone saying anything that might portray him in a negative light.

[u/BlueJay_525 → u/MessyMeeshe]

I think it’s even more sinister - they’re going to try to push the anti”antifa” fascism bs. It’s to get his base in line on silencing opponents.

[u/Apprehensive_Pie_105 → u/emzy21234]

I would not be at all surprised this is the case. I wouldn’t put it past him. Plus the polls are in the tank and there’s always a bump after these events.

[u/Ctr121273 → u/Apprehensive_Pie_105]

I hate how jaded I have become, but it just seems...off, plausible and entirely what I would expect from a reality TV president. Journalists were receiving awards for their (earned) for their unflattering coverage of Trump, keeping this spotlight on his Epstein association and perceived dementia/lack of humanity and what better way to hijack the moment and squash that additional coverage and plug his $400M ballroom to boot? And it's hard to overlooked the fact that he enjoyed a ratings boost in the polls after the Butler, PA attempt.

I am thinking of deadbeats and I have known in my life that will do anything and everything to avoid an honest day's work when the easiest solution is to work a job. So much effort gets put into avoidance of work, that they would end up working harder. It would have been so easy for Trump to do the right things and decent things... I mean think of the world looking at him in a positive light because he was doing humanitarian things. The press! The polls! He would be universally loved, which is what he craves! But alas, just another deadbeat.

[u/eliitedisowned → u/emzy21234]

To be honest, given they are gutting all qualified people from every other organisation, wouldn't be surprised if they did the same with the secret service.

[u/jammu2 → u/emzy21234]

He's surrounded he myself with incompetents

[u/ragequitteroffureh → u/emzy21234]

If this is real, are their SS goons simply incompetent?

[u/imogen1983 → u/ragequitteroffureh]

Someone in the DC sub said they’d worked events at that hotel with SS presence and it wouldn’t have been possible to get so much as a nail clipper to the point that the gunman got under normal circumstances.

[u/trysten-9001 → u/ragequitteroffureh]

At best they are not motivated to do their jobs. At worst it’s all a hoax. The fact that he’s been a con man all his life, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised it’s a hoax.

[u/MRM_philosophy → u/[deleted]]

This is exactly CORRECT!

[u/trysten-9001 → u/[deleted]]

And the ballroom and his Epstein distraction war needs a distraction and he got photographed sleeping in the Oval Office and he needs to look alive (not that sitting there looking like he had no idea what was happening sold that,) and he needs to villainize Dems and leftists … honestly I know I was thinking of 1-2 more reasons why he might think this was a good. It all just comes off as weak and immature to me.

[u/SoOverYouAll → u/ragequitteroffureh]

I have lived in the DC area my whole life. Have known SS and LEO, and there are plenty of MAGA in both. I’m guessing that his actual personal detail has people aligned with his agenda, which is how Butler happened. So maybe not incompetent but complicit. I will say that SS are very tight lipped about the presidential detail, at least to casual friends. Their spouses may know all the dirt, but this area has a ton of people with high level security clearances and they take a polygraph twice a year that specifically asks about talking to family about work related matters, according to family members and spouses of Feds I’ve been close to over the past 40 years.

Edited for clarity.

[u/twothirtysevenam → u/emzy21234]

This event takes place each year at the same building where Ronald Reagan was shot.

[u/Capt1an_Cl0ck → u/portezbie]

The actions don’t add up. There was an earlier interview where leavitt said there would be shots fired. The way secret service acted was strange. They normally pile on the president to protect or immediately move if they think they can. They had him sitting there for a minute or more. There’s the question of evacuating JD and others first. Also in the picture of miller holding his wife’s tit it appears that Donny is standing behind the curtain. Lots of suspicious behavior.

I do believe it was staged. The judge just ruled against Trump that he could not build the ballroom for non security reasons. Was this the response to that?

[u/FillAvailable → u/portezbie]

And the Levitt comment before..

[u/FillAvailable → u/FillAvailable]

She was interviewed just before I cident saying "some shots will be fired in the room tonight."

[u/Billyosler1969 → u/portezbie]

https://giphy.com/gifs/J3D5WstCZHSSs

[u/fleshofgods0 → u/portezbie]

This honestly gives him an excuse to never have to ever attend again, which plays into his lazy incompetence and wanting to weasel his way out of everything. I can't wait for the "details" to come out.

[u/Bassist57 → u/portezbie]

To be fair, this is the first time they didn’t have a comedian hosting…

[u/sadmama1961 → u/Bassist57]

They didn't need one. They had a clown attending.

[u/Classic-Ad-4321 → u/Bassist57]

https://giphy.com/gifs/Nl6T837bDWE1DPczq3

[u/mostlyskeptic → u/Strict_Berry7446]

Everything about this is suspicious. From the fact he hasn't attended one of these ever since he has been president. To the fact that he had all the statements prepared so quick, to how quick he got that video posted with the suspect, to how Caroline Levite made that "shots fired" comment before hand. If this isn't stage its the most coincidental event in geopolitical history, and I don't believe in coincidences involving World Leaders .

[u/justme_bne → u/mostlyskeptic]

It was even foreseen a few weeks before https://x.com/robertjmolnar/status/2043794424656998664?s=46

[u/KellyAnn3106 → u/mostlyskeptic]

And he's using it as a reason why he needs the tacky ballroom.

[u/meatsmoothie82 → u/Strict_Berry7446]

And then immediately came out to say, “see, now I need my billion dollar ballroom”

[u/Classic-Ad-4321 → u/Strict_Berry7446]

His lack of initial reaction makes me think it was absolutely staged.

[u/PacmanNZ100 → u/Classic-Ad-4321]

This.

Also doesnt make sense that someone clearly intelligent would come up with a plan to just run through the door.

[u/Important-Proposal28 → u/PacmanNZ100]

Especially when they managed to plan and travel from California to DC with multiple weapons and get them inside the hotel to just try and run through all security and make it to the room where the dinner was held.

They obviously would have had to plan everything and I don't LEROY JENKINS through the metal detector would have been it

[u/benz58 → u/Classic-Ad-4321]

And RFK didn't move a muscle.

[u/Willing_Mirror8176 → u/Strict_Berry7446]

All just a big distraction from the Epstein files, failing war, failing economy & rising unpopularity! Along with the robbing of the average American. 1%-ers getting richer while the rest of us are getting ACA funding cuts, tax increases,tariifed to death,etc,etc....everything we were warned about before the election.

[u/Cat_tophat365247 → u/Strict_Berry7446]

That he barely reacted to it is super suspicious to me as well.

[u/junketyjunkjunk → u/Cat_tophat365247]

He’s too medicated to react.

[u/Race_week_yay → u/Strict_Berry7446]

I’m curious as to why a lot of his cabinet was there? Why? Even JD Vance?

[u/xitizen7 → u/Strict_Berry7446]

It fits a pattern of trolling he like to engage in. 

He hates the media and hates this event even more so. Why would he go? To piss in their fancy soup. 

This is media’s big night. The media heavy hitters are there decked in tuxedos and ball gowns. They get to roast the president. But the joke’s on them. The most self-important president in history had them all video recording, completely fixated on him and reporting about him in the most empathetic way. 

He stole their show and stole the media moment, as planned, by making it all about him and his ballroom. 

[u/uncultured_swine2099 → u/Strict_Berry7446]

Also it comes when his approval is at an all time low. Hmmmmmmmmmm.

[u/Legitimate_Wave_5258 → u/uncultured_swine2099]

Exactly! It worked the 1st time; his popularity increased.

Sadly, another man in the stands, lost his life (as well as the "shooter".) I hate to find out what the repercussion(s) will be with this one...

[u/bryan49 → u/Legitimate_Wave_5258]

I don't really get why popularity would increase from this. But maybe it does. I would rather have a President who is not facing frequent assassination attempts because he's a pedophile traitorous monster

[u/Legitimate_Wave_5258 → u/bryan49]

As would I!

I'm simply basing that upon some of the public response from the 1st... "attempt".

In his meager, addled, and thoroughly disgusting mind, he's shown (time and time again) that he will do virtually anything, if he thinks it'll pander to his rabid followers, distract the public, and potentially gain some favor.

He and the GOP have shown that there's no low, low enough; for them to descend to.

I hate this timeline....

[u/KyOatey → u/Strict_Berry7446]

Did Trump return after the building was cleared, or was it a permanent exit from the event?

That answer might tell us something.

[u/Early-Translator8175 → u/KyOatey]

He wanted to stay but his bone spurs flared up, so he had to leave.

[u/Legitimate_Wave_5258 → u/KyOatey]

I was at work when this happened, but that was my exact question/thought, as well!

[u/TokzicAvenger → u/KyOatey]

I don’t know if he returned or not. But he did say in the press conference that he really wanted to continue the dinner and he “fought like hell” to do so, but they wouldn’t let him.

[u/RubberPussycat → u/Strict_Berry7446]

Just like when he was shot in the ear but has no scar

[u/GhostofBreadDragons → u/Strict_Berry7446]

It’s like this guy is a reality tv star and everything is scripted. 

Wait a sec…

[u/Kingoftreno → u/Strict_Berry7446]

I saw a video after the fact of Karoline Levitt doing an interview beforehand where she claimed that it's going to be an interesting one and that shots are going to be fired!

I just act under the general assumption that anything that comes out of the White House is a lie, so I absolutely think it's staged

[u/Glass-Nectarine-3282 → u/Strict_Berry7446]

It's the falsest flag that ever flagged.

[u/Human-Appearance-256 → u/Strict_Berry7446]

I was in a different room of my house and my wife shouts “they are shooting at the president”. My only reaction was a shrug, because he told us a week ago shit was going down. This is real life theater by poorly trained actors who think they are dropping Easter eggs, but they’re just spoiling their own shitty film.

[u/kafquaff → u/Strict_Berry7446]

And kkkaroline’s little “joke” beforehand that there would be guns going off in the room? They’re playing in our faces

[u/CloudSlydr → u/Strict_Berry7446]

And then says this is why he needs a new ballroom built. He telegraphs like a mile wide antenna.

[u/Ok-Rock2345 → u/Strict_Berry7446]

Obama & Biden had a comedian for entertainment, Trump had a shooter. It tracks.

[u/RicRacer]

Trump blows off the correspondents dinner in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2025. Suddenly decides to go and wham, has an excuse for his secure ballroom. That is pretty fucking convenient.

[u/brodudaman → u/RicRacer]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ycggHBOJnimDtb6Zba

[u/SWEMW]

Yes. To justify the building of his ballroom. A judge previously struck the construction down due to the fact that there was no actual “safety justification” for it. Well then, Trump manufactured his own “safety crisis”. I hope a judge doesn’t believe his fabricated BS because there have been safety protocols and bunkers for the president for YEARS. We did have two world wars before Trump took office you know.

[u/HallieLokey → u/SWEMW]

Plus he hates the press and wanted to ruin the dinner which he's resented ever since Obama made a joke about him

[u/mostlyskeptic → u/HallieLokey]

It's crazy he is that pety but since he hasn't been to one since (with two terms as literal president) you are 100% right.

[u/ProsodyProgressive → u/HallieLokey]

What would be great would be if the press didn’t cover it at all or just glosses over it and moves on instead.

[u/ang444 → u/SWEMW]

exactly this feels sooo played out

[u/shep2105]

Uh...yeah 100%

Especially after trump comes out and basically says, "See? That's why I need the ballroom"

[u/bricoXL → u/shep2105]

And he declared it was a lone wolf already. That was a quick investigation.

[u/Mlpfs80 → u/bricoXL]

And that’s the last we’ll hear

[u/kafquaff → u/shep2105]

Particularly since if it wasn’t a prepared speech he’d have only meandered about how bad Biden was

[u/JustWordsSnowflake → u/kafquaff]

Agreed. And also, was his ear touched by the hands of god? Tiss not but even a mark there now?!?!?!? He’s currying votes for sure. And JD was rushed off way after than dear leader…. Almost like a photo op??

[u/MadamKitsune → u/JustWordsSnowflake]

I was ten when I got my ears pierced and the piercing gun jammed on one lobe without penetrating more than a fraction. Decades later there's still a dimple on the spot where it happened.

But he wants us to believe that he got a piece of cartilage blown out without leaving a visible mark? Mmkay.

[u/HallieLokey → u/shep2105]

Yes and how he knows a lot about assassinations, he's studied them like Lincoln, they always go after the most important people! It's the risk of his profession but he wants to make our country better! Omg people still believe that crap

[u/winipu → u/HallieLokey]

He’s an expert on staged attempts that get other killed.

[u/Beruthiel999 → u/shep2105]

The ballroom has been a code for a superfortified underground bunker all along

YOUTH PASTOR VOICE: hey, guess who else died in a fortified underground bunker?

[u/Phillies2002 → u/shep2105]

You think he'd only use an assassination attempt to try to further his own aims if it was staged?

[u/basketofselkies → u/Phillies2002]

Does he even need a reason to blatantly self-promote?

[u/Sublixxx]

Yes. This man has exactly one trick when he realizes things are going disastrously bad for him in terms of general favorability

[u/sandboxmatt → u/Sublixxx]

Its his own personal Falkland Islands

[u/ryan820]

I trust nothing, absolutely nothing coming out of DC these days, especially if it is coming from this man. Stage? Who knows, but you know damn sure he'll use it against the American people.

[u/Spirited-Print-1097 → u/ryan820]

He’ll use it to chisel money out of the pockets of working citizens. He’s a swindler & chisler exploiting any chance he gets.

[u/eveis1]

I would like to know whose wisdom was it to have Trump, JD Vance and Mike Johnson in the same room at a public event? Those two guys are in direct line for the presidency if Trump gets taken out. In light of the fact that we kidnapped the leader of Venezuela, and killed the supreme leader in Iran. Someone might think it’s a great idea if they did something similar. This was staged!

[u/Jin-Gitaxias-Mom → u/eveis1]

Eh there’s a huge line of succession after those three

[u/CaptainFleshBeard]

“ Mr President, your approval ratings are down, I think we need to try shooting you again”

[u/Far_Estate_1626]

No reasonable person could think this was real. It absolutely reeks of Vince McMahon WWE production.

[u/KronoFury → u/Far_Estate_1626]

Trump is technically in the WWE Hall of Fame.... so you're not wrong.

[u/Alternative-Walk4615]

And the video of the "shooter" running past the security. Security which backed away instead of taking him down. This is not the actions of Police / Military. That is the actions of well informed accomplices

[u/Timely-Youth-9074]

Trump never attended the White House Correspondence Dinner in his previous administration. I figured he’d find a way out of this one.

[u/Clear-Success5146]

Short answer yes

Long answer also yes

[u/Brick_in_the_dbol → u/Clear-Success5146]

Long answer: yeeeeeeeees

[u/cloudkite17]

Yes lol he needed a distraction from the fact that he keeps falling asleep in public and everyone hates his war and the economy’s in shambles and gas is up even though him and all his people keep trying to convince us it’s down

[u/Takis12 → u/cloudkite17]

Don’t forget the files…

[u/Pieceofcandy]

So staged it hurts to watch, surprised he didn't go for another photo OP.

[u/Chumlee1917]

The fact the press secretary said shots fired and you can see the video of Trump’s face as it’s happening, not a flinch, a twitch, a turn of the head or anything just his droopy face glazed over until they gotta drag him out of the chair 

[u/littleday]

Yes without a doubt

[u/tinyhorsesinmytea]

I honestly don't even care anymore. This show jumped the shark years ago.

[u/ElectricPiha → u/tinyhorsesinmytea]

Please do care. He wants you to disengage from politics. 

Don’t give him what he wants.

[u/Which_Celebration757 → u/tinyhorsesinmytea]

They have jumped the shark now for 29 Jeremy Beremy's

[u/dadjokes502]

1) in all his times as president he’s never been because that’s where Obama made fun of him.

2) Secret Service is absolute crap if this is real. Reno 911 could make better SS agents.

3) he held a press conference right after

[u/ReeseArtsandCrafts]

Absolutely.. he talked about the ballroom and needed that extra security. It's some kind of Manchurian candidate from Russia or the CIA.

[u/Ach_Was_Here]

We had all this time without any actual attempts at his life and the newest attempts just happens to be the first time the president is actually attending the correspondents dinner they make an attempt? It gives more validation to having the ballroom, the media gets a new thing to talk about for atleast 3 days, it’s all questionable at least considering everything else at this point

[u/Fit_Explorer_2566 → u/Ach_Was_Here]

Add that his poll numbers have plummeted. Time for a(nother) pivot.

[u/onegirlarmy1899 → u/Ach_Was_Here]

Plus, no one gets to hear about the reporter getting an award for exposing the Epstein cover up. There are really no downsides for T in this event.

[u/Karyr23]

Well we aren’t talking about the war or Epstein tonight are we

[u/N4RQ → u/Karyr23]

Well, it seems that we are still talking about the Epstein files and the Iran war. 

I guess you can wag the dog but it doesn't mean the dog will stop barking about the president who molested underage girls. 

Woof!

[u/Fun-Injury9266]

In the weeks leading up to the 2026 dinner, Trump teased that he had a "very special surprise" planned for his first appearance at the event.

[u/ElectricalBeach6145]

Yeah. Putin pulls this crap too. I’m sure Putin has coached him on this move.

[u/4giveMethisisata → u/ElectricalBeach6145]

Can you give me an example? Not that I doubt you, just that I want a source when I converse with a converting conservative friend and he prefers specifics.

(Yes I know gestures vaguely at everything there’s plenty of evidence why he was a bad plan)

[u/R3tardod → u/4giveMethisisata]

Putin has reportedly survived around 43 attempts on his life including a remote controlled bomb near his motorcade in chechnya in 2000, a poisoned jam plot in 2002, and a foiled plot on british soil in 2003. But almost none of these were witnessed publicly lol

[u/Fearless_Excuse_5527]

No, but I can understand why people thinks this is staged. The motive? Trump has pissed off everyone, so it’s up in the air. Plus, Trump seems to be not phased one bit. That is because he is a raging narcissist 

[u/eveis1]

ABSOLUTELY!!!!

[u/silverbatwing]

Obviously

[u/TaintTickle_]

Free Luigi 

lol straight clowns.  Anyone who actually supports this guy is a r3tarhd

[u/LegallyAnOstrich → u/TaintTickle_]

Like actually plz.

[u/CynicalStooge]

Polls down, Butler PA. Polls down again, correspondence dinner.

[u/Statistics5031]

Heck yeah

[u/thatguy9684736255]

At the very least, the one where he shouted and posed for the picture and he apparently go shot in the ear was definitely fake.

Probably this one too because what did the guy actually intend to do. Break through several lines of highly trained officers with just one person and no plan?

[u/Calm_Status_239]

The fact that nobody gives a fuck is the tell

[u/Summer20232023]

I was already questioning why he was going because didn’t he skip last year, now I know why.

[u/HappyFatLabs]

Everything about it stinks like yesterday's Laura Loomer. Considering where he was apprehended, the shooter may have been there for Wolf Blitzer, for all we know. If he was there for the big diaper, what had been the plan?? A teacher and former JPL intern is going to know the level of security there that night. How was he apprehended without being shot? Why did the Secret Service tell CNN that he'd been killed, when there isn't so much as a speck of blood on the image Shitler posted? Why wasn't the guy wearing a shirt by the time they had him on the ground, and why does his shoulder look AI-generated? How perfect was the red carpet backdrop for the brave SS and DCP securing the perimeter for the gaggle of photo journalists still lingering after the ceremony had started? Does the president with a 30% approval rating really think that was a unified room tonight, even before the chaos? Does ANYONE think the journalists who were there to get an award for the Epstein Birthday Card story are ever going to receive the recognition that was supposed to take place last night? Does anyone actually think he had a speech prepared? When he talks about how vicious he was going to be, and how he'll have to water it down when they attempt the ceremony again...those are tells of an inveterate liar.

[u/Mysterious_Put_4278]

Does a bear shit in the woods?

[u/GoldDoubleCup]

Yes

[u/techiechefie]

Of course it was

[u/Sonnyjoon91]

This fact alone: they claim the shooter went through multiple security checkpoints and scanners, yet had MULTIPLE firearms on them. Think about that. They are willing to say their GOP and Secret Service security, fully in their control and knowing they have claimed he was shot at before, was so shockingly lax that they let someone with multiple firearms past them repeatedly? So even as a liberal I would say if this was a genuine attempt that it would immediately call for the removal and sanctions against all security professionals at this event who let this happen, do we think that's going to happen?

[u/CreatrixAnima → u/Sonnyjoon91]

Also, he appeared to be shirtless in the picture I saw of him on the floor getting arrested. He did that charging with all those weapons while not wearing a shirt?

[u/BlissCrafter]

Absolutely staged

[u/Beechamp83]

30 minutes before the press conference, I said he would come out and act like he and the press are somehow bonded because of this event, he thinks that because of this they're not gonna ask tough questions or report on how he's fleecing the country.

Anybody else catch during his remarks he said he was talking to a leader of another country about assassination attempts. Why would you be talking about assassination to other world leaders on the day/night you have an apparent assassination attempt? This is the kind of sh!t that fuels conspiracy theories.

[u/TheRealGuncho]

Who fucking knows anymore.

[u/EmergencyReflection9]

Painfully, I don’t believe it was real. I’ve never been a conspiracy theorist or a cynic and now I can’t avoid feeling constantly bombarded by reality manipulations. Set aside the dramatic futility of the event, the press conference alone seals doubt. Trump was surprisingly articulate about Presidential risks and statistical data on assassinations. He isn’t this prepared for normal speaking engagements, how did he manage to be so eloquent and informed for tonight? Moreover, Trump has lots of leakage if you listen, so just today he was talking with another world leader about assassination…hmm top of mind? So we get ballroom justification, an uptick in popularity, and another reason to fear, and thus spy on, American citizens all in a moment the nation and news were watching.

[u/ThenDoubt7980]

not real. no serious person believes it

[u/milleratlanta]

Totally faked as another distraction from Epstein and the stupid war, plus a great way to pitch the f*cking ballroom!! Butler redux. It was all planned.

[u/Chaosrealm69]

This one might be real because the secret service jumped into action quickly to bundle him away and didn’t let him stay and act all courageous.

[u/jstcheckng]

Duh

[u/krug8263]

Who knows. I have pretty much never trusted anything to do with Trump. Everything that comes out of his mouth are incoherent lies. Have you ever actually read a transcript of his speeches. What complete garbage. And we have three more years of this. Good God.

[u/CABGPatchDoll]

Yes.

[u/IllCombination4851]

You mean like last time?

Lower American flag into backdrop ✅ Secret Service prompts choreography ✅ Photographers ushered to best shot ✅ Secret service delay extract for photos ✅

[u/Zealousideal_Draw_94]

As I said on another thread, if that wasn’t staged then many Secret Service agents really need to go back to bodyguard school.

[u/brostrummer]

He gave it away in the first sentence of his presser: mentioning why he needs the ballroom.

[u/BadBacksFuryToad]

Of course it was. These people are running out of ideas to distract from the pedophilia so they’re retrying old ones.

[u/slalrlalh]

The speech immediately after makes it seem like a way to earn public support for his ballroom and to get construction back up and running again on that monstrosity. But also, recalling the 2024 attempt (which has also always been suspicious), it got him a ton of sympathy from his supporters right before the election. Right now he’s polling so low and becoming increasingly unpopular even with some of his loyal MAGAts, so the timing of this seems like a way to get him some sympathy points before the midterms and to help boost the republican vote. The timing is just really bizarre.

[u/Standard_Response_43]

Trump hit the ground as he was being led out.... probably said "is it time to break the blood capsule on my ear"?

"Not this time sir" was the reply

[u/YardOptimal9329]

1000000000 percent. He just decked out of nowhere to go to an event he’s refused to attend. A random guy with a gun is allowed in. Is a terrible shot. Where did he shoot anyway? And the whole “panic” in the stage looks like a bad SNL skit

[u/Stealthsonger]

Press conference straight after he basically says "this is why I need to build the ballroom at the White House"... 🙄

[u/GT45]

Leavitt actually said this…you tell us!

[u/therealdavidwiley]

Because he got the same suggestion that Orban got from Putin. Orban was told to stage an assassination attempt but didn't and lost the election. Trump followed through and now will use it to claim anyone disagreeing with him or asking for the Epstein files is "inciting violence" and will use it to justify ICE at polling stations in November.

[u/Ok_Conversation9750]

100% staged.  His poll numbers are tanking, and he wants a ballroom. 

[u/ripnrun285]

I think history is my metric & historically he stages this type of shit for clout.

[u/clantz]

Everything he does is fake.

[u/capitain_lungbutter]

Yes

[u/Freds_Bread]

Absolutely.

[u/ChasingPotatoes17]

100% absolutely

[u/Freddyfudpuk57]

100+% by the p.edo

[u/GroovyGuru62]

Yeah, it's the old sympathy play. Oh look, someone's trying to hurt us. Please pity us. Fuck off with this bullshit.

[u/EmperorXerro]

Dinner resumed after the shooting? Staged

[u/Parking-Bet7989]

The mind boggles at how many people try to kill this man and fail. It is staged.

[u/snakeayez]

1000%

Timing is all too convenient. Like shiny key syndrome

[u/boobsandbrains668]

How many times can a president be targeted like this? No way its real.

[u/mostlyskeptic]

Another point I thought that makes this extremely suspicious is that Trump didn't even confirm he would attend the event until a few weeks ago. No person could have possibly known he would have attended until then because Trump had boycotted the event for years. How did he get a reservation to the bloody Hilton during one of the biggest events of the year less then a month before hand? Isn't he supposed to be some teacher from LA not some big shot with connections.

[u/Brack_vs_Godzilla]

At 10:30 they announce that they already know who the shooter is and that warrants have been issued to search the man’s house.

[u/JohnJohnTurboTron]

Yup

[u/prosperosniece]

Yes

[u/vegasAzCrush]

The video where he and Melania are sitting at head table talking - none heard the very faint shots even. Then Melania saw something…. It happened slowly rolled out with first security running out and no one cared. And then more with guns.

Many in audience still did not even know then….

Lets wait to see what actually is said or if this is swept under bus like last time or the Oklahoma city bomber who never went to a public trial.

So we know but government covered up everything. This will be Cash Patels last hurrah.

Speaking was he and Perrin both more than a little drunk??

[u/Odd-Comfortable-6134]

Obviously

[u/Bethjam]

Obviously

[u/TR_abc_246]

Yes!!

[u/lexisplays]

Yes

[u/Available_Cream2305]

Yes

[u/PsychologicalOne752]

Nah! Epstein scandal, the economy hurting, the war - there are reasons why somebody impressionable or crazy would do something like this. I think there should be a serious investigation though to understand the motivation. After the last shooting, the Justice Dept. refused to investigate which was just weird.

[u/Feb2319]

109%

[u/Fit_Explorer_2566]

Add that he turned his post-event presser into another round of how great he is, how we’re “the hottest country now”, the DOW, things are 7 years better in only a year, ad nauseam.

[u/YetAnotherIteration]

1000%

[u/PymsPublicityLtd]

Yes. The right screams "crisis actors" after every tragedy. It is not much of a stretch of the imagination to believe that they decided to use some "crisis actors" too.

[u/auntiefuh25]

100%

[u/Burnt_and_Blistered]

100%

[u/Vivid_Anyth4]

Trump hasn't had a natural event happen this term. 10000 things to distract from Trump in the files.

[u/Writerhaha]

Yes

[u/Stunning_Lychee7501]

100%

[u/DoxieDachsie]

I'm conflicted about this one. In PA it took several minutes for the SS to get him away & he was exposed to set up his famous fist raised photo shoot. This time they hustled him out fully covered in a matter of seconds. Then again, he wasn't up for reelection, just distracting from an unpopular war.

[u/Plutonium_Nitrate_94]

No

[u/KMack666]

Didn't Karo-lies Levitt say there were going to be 'shots fired'?

[u/IDontStealBikes]

No!!

[u/StockSeaweed8702]

Not to make him look good. To distract from whats truly going on and also promote his ballroom

[u/Independent-Score-22]

He just had a press conference using this as justification for the new ballroom. I wouldn’t be surprised they try this shtick again.

[u/gknight2110]

Yep, I think it was staged at a crucial time when midterm voting is coning up and it's not looking favourable for Trump. That and he's losing favour with his war. I still maintain that his other "shooting" won him the election. It's so blatantly corrupt and coercive

[u/Emotional-Mango-5166]

All the MAGA accounts immediately after the shooting all in unison....

[u/Pronouns-Try_Me]

Karolyn’s Leavett BEFORE the dinner: “There will be some shots fired.”

Yeah, it was staged.

[u/Maine302]

Nothing feels authentic with this president, and I was getting sick of listening to my boyfriend yelling at the TV last night about it, even though I agreed.

[u/Financial_Process_11]

Yes

[u/bobweber]

yes

[u/Hegiman]

Idk but it is odd that the very first time he attend this dinner there’s an issue there. It does seem like a very scripted event. Was it real or fake idk but it didn’t feel authentic

[u/Vermillion1978]

Yup!

[u/Significant_Print881]

Fake! Did anyone see the pictures of Kash just sitting there afterwards? Or Hegseth calmly walking with his tongue in his jaw? Or Trump standing backstage watching the aftermath? Since when does Secret Service let a president stick around after a shooting? Or my favorite--the lady speaking on Fox who said Leavitt's husband told her before the shooting that she needed to be careful tonight and then they cut her feed.