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'Trump rushed from White House correspondents' dinner after suspected gunshots heard'

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 26/04/2026 01:52

Surely he's not pulling this trick again?

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Tinytimmy123 · 26/04/2026 17:33

RingoJuice · 26/04/2026 16:10

Ringojuice has been carping on about the threat from the gun totting left when Kirk and trumps shooters ( present one i have no idea) have all been maga

These are vile lies. We know Crook donated to leftist organizations and we also know a lot more about Kirk’s shooter, who is a hicklib if I ever saw one.

Funny you celebrate a man being shot at, or wish for a good leftie assassin,

… but oh no, jk we didn’t do it. LOL.

Not one tweet about the ear clipper. She fears for her own existence its so bad....while living elsewhere...China, likely the middle east and the UK by the sound of things...while simultaneously belittling immigrants who dont speaky de lingo in the USA...im sure she is fluent in Chinese and Arabic

I actually am fluent in Chinese. I know you want to paint me as some uncultured rube. How inconvenient for you.

I have gone through immigration systems in a number of countries and literally know people who’ve been deported for this or that reason. So I have zero respect for people that do it illegally.

So yes, I have a dim view of migrants who can’t speak the local language.

Then there is her insistence we butt out of having an opinion on trump because we're from europe

Never said you can’t have an opinion. But I draw the line at wishing death on him.

while this American is tenaciously populating a UK based website pontificating about how the UK needs to be improved

I am allowed to have an opinion on this, having experienced it and married in.

As ive said before if there was any truth that Crook was a lefty trump would never have shut up about it.

I havent celebrated anything, a/ he is still alive, b/ he wasnt actually shot at c/ the general consensus is that its all bunkum

You support a regime that throws everyone out based on the colour of their skin, or their accent, irregardless of their status, all of which has been well documented. You even seem quite proud of it. 🤮Even to the point of supporting the murder of Pretti and Good, who were exercising their right to freedom of speech and protest despite your constitution.

As already stated you will inevitably have an accent be it in England China or the Middle East which qualifies for ICE detention at the very least by the government you support. After all you dont even have to have broken the law to be arrested by ICE.

You did actually say we should not be focusing on the Potus and stick with having an opinion on the UK .

I dont wish death on him, I fervently hope he ends up in jail but the sycophants and invertebrates in the usa are ignoring the constitution and the law. However having a laugh at his expense is what is keeping most of us sane. As for the very opportune shootings..well until proven otherwise I will continue to enjoy the wicked dry humour that the brits and the Irish are famous for, at trumps expense. If you have such a visceral aversion and reaction to hate speech it appears incongruous with your support for the man whose whole life is about hate speech, laughing at others misfortune, wallowing in it and instigating it.

I didnt say you couldn't have an opinion about the UK, merely pointing out your hypocrisy in telling this primarily UK site to stick to UK politics, and although you married a brit but didnt live here you were perfectly entitled to lecture us on our politics while living out of the UK as an immigrant elsewhere. I think in the USA that wouldnt really go down too well somehow...you know...if the shoe were on the other foot.

EasternStandard · 26/04/2026 17:31

LiviaDrusillaAugusta · 26/04/2026 17:25

So if you believe that this is legit (and that the secret service presumably didn’t do their jobs - seems unlikely) do you believe he was shot at the other times?

Each time he has had more to gain and it helped him sew up the election.

In other words, do you think the elite trained operatives in the secret service screwed up three times?

Because (fortunately) Obama didn’t get shot during his presidency and I’m sure a lot of Trump supporting good ol’ boys would have done it, given the opportunity.

Its just odd that this happened when he has so much to gain as a result of it

What does the person who will go to jail for a long time get out of it? and the other one shot dead.

LiviaDrusillaAugusta · 26/04/2026 17:26

Catpuss66 · 26/04/2026 17:19

Just posted a thread about this, I find it weird that JD Vance was rescued before Trump. Glad I am not the only one who thinks these are suspect.

Exactly, how can this happen when the secret service aren’t some keystone cops. Trump had so much to gain by this

LiviaDrusillaAugusta · 26/04/2026 17:25

dottiehens · 26/04/2026 16:59

Ok read the news after the incident and see if this really was a self inflicted or staged attempt. As mad and awful Trump may be. There are some people who seem as mad in the stuff they come up with. May be they are bots as someone said.

So if you believe that this is legit (and that the secret service presumably didn’t do their jobs - seems unlikely) do you believe he was shot at the other times?

Each time he has had more to gain and it helped him sew up the election.

In other words, do you think the elite trained operatives in the secret service screwed up three times?

Because (fortunately) Obama didn’t get shot during his presidency and I’m sure a lot of Trump supporting good ol’ boys would have done it, given the opportunity.

Its just odd that this happened when he has so much to gain as a result of it

Catpuss66 · 26/04/2026 17:19

mumofoneAloneandwell · 26/04/2026 01:52

Surely he's not pulling this trick again?

Just posted a thread about this, I find it weird that JD Vance was rescued before Trump. Glad I am not the only one who thinks these are suspect.

TopPocketFind · 26/04/2026 17:17

RingoJuice · 26/04/2026 16:58

They never tell the full story. Like she went there on a B2 visa (very telling) and she tried to take a rental car across the Canadian border (which means she lied to the rental agency, because otherwise she’d have had the right paperwork). Canadian border agents rightly copped on what she was planning to do, which was turn around and go back to the US.

Oh and she overstayed a prior visa. Do you ever tire of these stories? So gullible

There are many more stories like that.

Do you ever tire of defending Trump? So gullible

juldan · 26/04/2026 17:16

RingoJuice · 26/04/2026 16:52

They insist on taxing me wherever I am, so I participate in the political process.

And I don’t want leftists to destroy my country (because their father’s country is a total disaster show and looks determined to do a managed decline sadly).

Tbh the Gulf countries will never, ever give an immigrant actual citizenship (ie family books). Which is so funny to me, because their nationalities are, what, maybe created 100 years ago at most?

But they protect it far more than, say, America with a 250-year-old pedigree and England, which is almost 1,000 years old and nowadays you all pretend to not know what an English person is 😆

@RingoJuice
Why aren’t you in living in USA now? You voted for Trump to make American great again and he has. So why not go back?

What do you mean we pretend to not know what an English person is?
Who is an English person according to you?

TopPocketFind · 26/04/2026 17:15

dottiehens · 26/04/2026 16:53

So I take you agree with the dictators Trump has taken down?

That is quite the leap Hmm

You can celebrate the death of the Iranian leader and condemn Trump's war

Should we assume that you agree with Trump threatening genocide?

dottiehens · 26/04/2026 16:59

LiviaDrusillaAugusta · 26/04/2026 14:33

It’s only a conspiracy theory if it has no basis.

Believe what you like, if it really happened then it’s quite a series of events.

And Trump is an unhinged motherfucker - it’s hard to discount anything when it comes to him

Ok read the news after the incident and see if this really was a self inflicted or staged attempt. As mad and awful Trump may be. There are some people who seem as mad in the stuff they come up with. May be they are bots as someone said.

RingoJuice · 26/04/2026 16:58

LakieLady · 26/04/2026 16:47

This poor woman was held for around 6 weeks, despite having a valid visa:

They never tell the full story. Like she went there on a B2 visa (very telling) and she tried to take a rental car across the Canadian border (which means she lied to the rental agency, because otherwise she’d have had the right paperwork). Canadian border agents rightly copped on what she was planning to do, which was turn around and go back to the US.

Oh and she overstayed a prior visa. Do you ever tire of these stories? So gullible

LakieLady · 26/04/2026 16:54

worriedmumofgirls · 26/04/2026 13:41

Jesus wept I’m no fan of Trump but the comments on here are disgusting.

Im pretty centre when it comes to politics but what I have noticed is the left, especially on this site are awful people.

You've not been round the internet much then. There are UK forums that make this thread look as shocking as a WI knitting circle.

dottiehens · 26/04/2026 16:53

maftaz · 26/04/2026 15:28

I'd be happy enough if he was taken out..... by his own party supporters, by Congress, by the Senate, you know - by the normal democratic means of ousting a tyrannical, mad, dictatorial Leader. Why that's not happening is beyond me quite frankly. No one has to die or be killed in the process.

So I take you agree with the dictators Trump has taken down?

RingoJuice · 26/04/2026 16:52

juldan · 26/04/2026 16:43

@RingoJuice
That about the language of the Middle Eastern country you live in now? Are you fluent in that as well? Do you speak the local dialect with no accent? If not, you should be packing your bags right now.
What are you even doing there? As a staunch Trump supporter shouldn’t you be in the US campaigning 24/7 to make sure the mid terms go the right way?

They insist on taxing me wherever I am, so I participate in the political process.

And I don’t want leftists to destroy my country (because their father’s country is a total disaster show and looks determined to do a managed decline sadly).

Tbh the Gulf countries will never, ever give an immigrant actual citizenship (ie family books). Which is so funny to me, because their nationalities are, what, maybe created 100 years ago at most?

But they protect it far more than, say, America with a 250-year-old pedigree and England, which is almost 1,000 years old and nowadays you all pretend to not know what an English person is 😆

Tinytimmy123 · 26/04/2026 16:48

Thought he had demolished all their nuclear plants and armaments last year...a roaring success apparently...now he has done it again...but still threatening their civilisation...no wonder noone trusts anything he says or does.

LakieLady · 26/04/2026 16:47

juldan · 26/04/2026 13:24

@RingoJuice

And yet you have no problem with ICE. They have detained multiple American citizens including indigenous people as well as people with American visas.

I suppose you would have no problem if the local equivalent of ICE detained you “by mistake “ , treated you inhumanly and then revoked your right to stay there without any reason.

This poor woman was held for around 6 weeks, despite having a valid visa:

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks

Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice

juldan · 26/04/2026 16:43

RingoJuice · 26/04/2026 16:10

Ringojuice has been carping on about the threat from the gun totting left when Kirk and trumps shooters ( present one i have no idea) have all been maga

These are vile lies. We know Crook donated to leftist organizations and we also know a lot more about Kirk’s shooter, who is a hicklib if I ever saw one.

Funny you celebrate a man being shot at, or wish for a good leftie assassin,

… but oh no, jk we didn’t do it. LOL.

Not one tweet about the ear clipper. She fears for her own existence its so bad....while living elsewhere...China, likely the middle east and the UK by the sound of things...while simultaneously belittling immigrants who dont speaky de lingo in the USA...im sure she is fluent in Chinese and Arabic

I actually am fluent in Chinese. I know you want to paint me as some uncultured rube. How inconvenient for you.

I have gone through immigration systems in a number of countries and literally know people who’ve been deported for this or that reason. So I have zero respect for people that do it illegally.

So yes, I have a dim view of migrants who can’t speak the local language.

Then there is her insistence we butt out of having an opinion on trump because we're from europe

Never said you can’t have an opinion. But I draw the line at wishing death on him.

while this American is tenaciously populating a UK based website pontificating about how the UK needs to be improved

I am allowed to have an opinion on this, having experienced it and married in.

@RingoJuice
That about the language of the Middle Eastern country you live in now? Are you fluent in that as well? Do you speak the local dialect with no accent? If not, you should be packing your bags right now.
What are you even doing there? As a staunch Trump supporter shouldn’t you be in the US campaigning 24/7 to make sure the mid terms go the right way?

Wearenotborg · 26/04/2026 16:39

ElenOfTheWays · 26/04/2026 15:25

Except Trump is more Darth Vader than Luke Skywalker

Definitely. Or emperor palpetine

TopPocketFind · 26/04/2026 16:18

The news reports say that Trump wasn't the target.

Locutus2000 · 26/04/2026 16:18

Christ, the standard of discourse on these threads. Half of it might as well be bots arguing with each other.

RingoJuice · 26/04/2026 16:10

Ringojuice has been carping on about the threat from the gun totting left when Kirk and trumps shooters ( present one i have no idea) have all been maga

These are vile lies. We know Crook donated to leftist organizations and we also know a lot more about Kirk’s shooter, who is a hicklib if I ever saw one.

Funny you celebrate a man being shot at, or wish for a good leftie assassin,

… but oh no, jk we didn’t do it. LOL.

Not one tweet about the ear clipper. She fears for her own existence its so bad....while living elsewhere...China, likely the middle east and the UK by the sound of things...while simultaneously belittling immigrants who dont speaky de lingo in the USA...im sure she is fluent in Chinese and Arabic

I actually am fluent in Chinese. I know you want to paint me as some uncultured rube. How inconvenient for you.

I have gone through immigration systems in a number of countries and literally know people who’ve been deported for this or that reason. So I have zero respect for people that do it illegally.

So yes, I have a dim view of migrants who can’t speak the local language.

Then there is her insistence we butt out of having an opinion on trump because we're from europe

Never said you can’t have an opinion. But I draw the line at wishing death on him.

while this American is tenaciously populating a UK based website pontificating about how the UK needs to be improved

I am allowed to have an opinion on this, having experienced it and married in.

Tinytimmy123 · 26/04/2026 16:05

Puzzledandpissedoff · 26/04/2026 15:17

Ain't that the truth Sad

And no I can't stand the man either, but I don't express hope that he'll be killed and if this concerned anyone else the thread would almost certainly have been pulled. Looks like the mods are okay with calls for murder as long as it's someone disliked, which seems a shame

I havent called for anyone to be killed. Unlike trump who seems to encourage it, endorse it and gloat on it when it happens.

Would I be sorry if he died, yes, because he would have evaded real justice for all the evil he has injected into this world. If I had a wish it would be that the name trump would go down in perpetuity as a sullied name that no-one would want to be aligned with ( akin to the German dictator) because he and his family( kushners included) have filled their pockets, and continue to do so, on the back of abused women and children, cancer stricken children, the disadvantaged, the sick and needy just so they can have generational wealth.

Will I be glad when he is no longer here? Absolutely! But my greatest hope is that he gets his just desserts before he leaves this world. He deserves no respect of any kind and although those sycophants around him are trying to hide underneath his skirts, they are as sullied and have the same blood on their hands as him.

As for finding humour in the likely fake Butler episode, the golf course man and now this ...he is the maker of his own narrative....why else would the consensus immediately ( i was awake and saw it all roll in) assume/conclude its a bs assassination attempt. No-one did it for Kennedy, Reagan, Pope John Paul the second......just trump.

TemperanceWest · 26/04/2026 15:39

Aluna · 26/04/2026 15:33

Darth Vader has a dark gravitas. Trump is more like Basil Brush.

What a terrible thing to say. Poor Basil 🦊.

Aluna · 26/04/2026 15:33

ElenOfTheWays · 26/04/2026 15:25

Except Trump is more Darth Vader than Luke Skywalker

Darth Vader has a dark gravitas. Trump is more like Basil Brush.

maftaz · 26/04/2026 15:28

I'd be happy enough if he was taken out..... by his own party supporters, by Congress, by the Senate, you know - by the normal democratic means of ousting a tyrannical, mad, dictatorial Leader. Why that's not happening is beyond me quite frankly. No one has to die or be killed in the process.

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