Trump Keeps Watching Shooting Clip: ‘May Legit Have PTSD’
www.thedailybeast.com
Sources close to the ex-president’s campaign have said he’s particularly fixated on a single seven-second clip.

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.

  • eestileib@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    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.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      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@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        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@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          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@lemmy.world
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            3 months ago

            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@lemmy.world
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              3 months ago

              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.