To have grudging respect for how Trump styled it out

Similar sentiments in a viral X post by Stepdanie Tyler:

“graduated in 2012 w a degree in Women's Studies

cried in 2016 when Trump got elected

lost touch w the dems somewhere around MeToo

discovered entrepreneurship

updated my voter registration in 2018 but didn't tell anyone

told myself i was a 'single-issue-voting Centrist'

the last 6-12 months i've believed i was going to abstain from voting in the upcoming election because the options are equally terrible

but watching Trump survive an assassination attempt and act like a total fucking savage just shifted me into some strange, patriotic gear that my fancy-feminism-white-men-bad infected brain never showed me

like, the dude took a bullet and stood up with blood dripping down his face, and rallied a fucking crowd while fist pumping, yelling "FIGHT!"

sorry, but i'm voting for that.

and saying it out loud feels so freeing

(2012 stepfanie would be so pissed but that's okay because 2012 stepfanie didn't know shit)”

Trump is known to be excellent at instinctively reading the room and he even managed to when just being shot at

This will absolutely increase his appeal, I can's say I admire him but his resilience can't be ignored

Well you are not coming across as a very good person. Also, speculating about stuff if he gets in. I get it you are a Democrat. Take it with them to get a viable candidate and problem solved.

Can any Americans answer whether this is remotely possible? When I studied politics A million years ago we learnt that the US constitution is so powerful that the POTUS has less power than the British PM. I know lots of things have happened that were previously thought could not happen and the Supreme Court is stuffed with his cronies, but even Mike Pence, after excusing him for so long didn't put Trump before the Constitition in the end.

Well obviously. None of that is particularly necessary or useful (and could be quite dangerous) for the job of potus.

It might be said that Trump is a great one for showmanship and courts publicity in whatever way might bring him the most into the limelight.

Who isn't! (I'm sure you're lovely though, obviously)

Wishing people bad things is Trump's way.
And yes I am a better person than Trump. Frankly it's not difficult, the bar is pretty low

@BruceAndNosh Nah, I don’t think that Trump intends to seize power and become a dictator. He wants a second term to prove that he can do it and then he’ll bow out.

He’d have started his political career decades ago if that was his goal.

Oh Trump’s trauma. Forget it. He is resilient and a fighter. Wishing people bad things says more about the person really. Are you really much better than Trump?

Yes but Biden's case wasn't thrown out as such. They couldn't take it forward because he was deemed not compos mentis enough to be a credible witness.

I do think that might have swung the section for him though which is not quite the outcome the shooter was hoping for I am sure.

He’s a flipping barm pot and his political views are just madness however he just nearly got shot in the head so I will give him a nod for keeping his head ( no pun intended)!

It was much more stupid than brave. He needed to get the fuck into that car as fast as possible and forget about his ego for a few minutes. But he's not even capable of that.

It's possible to disagree with his views but also consider his response brave.

It's going to be very interesting few years I think 🤔

If Trump wins in November, there might not be an election in 2028

Well, I suppose if Biden can keep documents in his garage for years, Trump can do the same.

Ffs, what a pair they are, can we please have some better candidates in 2028?! 😂

And now the case about his trove of highly-classified documents he was accused of stashing in Mar-a-lago has been tossed out by a judge.

I was thinking about that. It could have been catastrophic.

I don't think there would have been any. Him dying makes him a martyr. Regardless, he's going to be the 47th POTUS in January 2025, the election is merely a formality now.

If trump had died I dread to think of the rioting that would have ensued

I genuinely don't agree. I think he's not capable of that sort of depth of thought. All he wanted was attention from his adoring public. A normal person wouldn't have been dicking about waving/ fist pumping having just been shot. They'd get the fuck into the car out of further danger. I think he has some sort of mental issue/ condition.

The opposition have wanted to get rid of him for a long time. They always say "we don't mean kill". They went after him for his tax returns, they tried to make out that he's a rapist for a throwaway statement he made in the 1990s, they tried to get him on charges relating to Stormy Daniels, they convicted him, and then some scrawny little 20 year old with a history of political violence tried to murder him.

He needs new security detail, though. The response was pathetic, even after members of the public spotted the shooter and tried to get the police to react. Nothing sticks to him, which is why he's so deeply hated.

Anyone commiserating (there are many on Twitter) over the fact that Trump turned his head enough to avoid a kill shot is just a total psychopath.

Agreed. We had someone jump off our local bridge onto the dual carriageway this weekend. The other one who threatened to jump was talked down a few hours earlier.

We get train jumpers too
The bridge jumpers tend to walk out of our hospital onto the bridge a short walk away.

We've lost friends to the sea because we're coastal. Two jumped off a cliff into the sea,, one went out in his boat and jumped in. Another parked his car and entered the water his body found weeks later.

All the deaths were more traumatic for the family because there was hope for days and weeks . Every day their pictures were shared far and wide.