I’m seeing a bunch of posts insinuating that this most recent assassination attempt was fake. Why do people think this? I’m out of the loop.

  • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip
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    6 days ago

    Isn’t it weird that it leaked that this correspondents dinner was going to be all about revenge and then this happens?

    are you talking about this? you do understand these remarks about shots fired are about his speech, not literal bullets, right?

    whole trump’s presidency is a revenge for being humiliated by obama at correspondents dinner. it created his narcissistic political ptsd, and he will never get over it, so no, it is not weird at all that his first attendance of correspondent’s dinner at the office would be about that. it would be weird for normal mentally balanced adult person, but it is absolutely in character for trump.

    • [object Object]@lemmy.ca
      2·
      6 days ago

      No, I don’t think using a common figure of speech means it was staged. That’s silly.

      I’m sure this news has wholly buried it but last week there was a report leaked that said this correspondents dinner was going to be all about getting revenge on the people who wronged Trump

      The specific language used was weird, but I can’t say one way or the other yet.

      “Donald Trump will launch a ‘revenge’ attack on the White House media when he confronts them in person at a Washington dinner on Saturday night,” an outletrevealed on Wednesday, April 22.

      “He is expected to target publications that he has accused of writing negatively about his administration and his war with Iran, in particular, according to sources,” the Daily Beast reported.

      https://okmagazine.com/p/donald-trump-planning-revenge-attack-media-white-house-correspondents-dinner/

    • Fedegenerate@fedinsfw.appEnglish
      12·
      6 days ago

      If the shooting was faked, I have no opinion whether or not it is, those statements would be something called a “double entendre”.

      Whether or not it was faked, she knew it would happen, could think of the double, or just overheard someone else making the joke… All up for debate.