Here are photos from Day 1 of the Republican National Convention. Donald Trump showed up for the first day and let me tell you, he does not trust his newly-announced running mate. I feel like a Daily Mail body-language expert, but Trump is definitely showing his supporters that he trusts JD Vance about as far as he can throw him. Considering his supporters were sent to hang Trump’s last vice president, JD Vance should sleep with one eye open.
But the real story is Trump’s new ear bandage, which he was not wearing on Sunday when he went golfing at Mar-a-Lago, just hours after the shooting at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. He wants us to know that his ear has an ouchie, so someone smacked half a Kotex pad on this man’s ear. People online were clowning on him so hard, “Kotex” was trending. As for Trump’s ear situation, people have noted how weird it is that no one from the hospital has briefed the media about Trump’s condition or how they treated him.
Neither the Trump campaign nor the hospital where he was treated on Saturday in Butler, Pa., have released any information on the former president’s treatment, diagnosis or condition. A spokesman for Butler Memorial Hospital, Tom Chakurda, told the Daily Beast Monday, “We’re deferring any comment to the Trump team.” The Trump campaign declined to respond to questions about Trump’s condition and treatment.
Trump has told well wishers and conservative media that he cannot believe he’s alive. He indicated in an interview with Byron York of the Washington Examiner that he was grazed by a bullet, which could have been a fatal blow to the skull had the former president not turned his head.
On stage at his rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, Trump’s right ear filled with blood after 20-year-old gunman Thomas Crooks opened fire in the direction of the president, killing a Trump supporter in the crowd and seriously wounding two others. It was the first assassination attempt on a president, current or former, since 1981.
ABC News reported that Trump underwent a precautionary CT scan. It came back clear, according to the network, which cited anonymous sources.
The fact that the hospital, so far, is not providing information publicly suggests that the medical facility, which is part of Independence Health Systems in Pennsylvania, is protecting consent and confidentiality agreements with Trump, making it up to him to waive it if he wanted to.
On Saturday evening, after the failed attempt on his life, Trump was rushed to Butler Memorial. At 6:42 p.m. that evening, Trump’s security detail described Trump as “fine.”
Yeah… I’m going to zip it. There was confusion initially about whether an actual bullet struck any part of Trump’s body… I believe the current theory is that a bullet whizzed past his head and struck the teleprompter, and glass from the teleprompter struck Trump. But again, we don’t actually know for sure because the Trump campaign and the hospital’s failure to disclose. Just days ago, the national media was clamoring for President Biden to release all of his medical records, but for Trump? They’re just going on vibes and whatever he says.
Update: Trump’s doctor Ronny Jackson – the same guy who was his White House doctor – has now given an update on the condition of Trump’s ear. Basically, the doctor says that Trump lost a small part of the top of his ear and that it bled a lot.
Also: Sleepy Don couldn’t even stay awake throughout his appearance at the RNC on Monday.
If Trump can't stay awake at his own convention, how is he going to stay awake for America, I think it's time he should step down and let someone much younger take his place and who is not a convicted felon take his place.pic.twitter.com/Hxkd9Voj06
— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) July 16, 2024
Wait a minute…. I was under the impression that only FEMALES wear Kotex??? This guy LITERALLY changed overnight? Yesterday, not even sportin' a Snoopy bandage while on the golf course? Today, he's wearing feminine hygiene on his head?? Strange times, indeed… https://t.co/1ABCveB1Ro pic.twitter.com/07ZoVmeEfZ
— GrouchyGramma (@lindamiller83) July 16, 2024
Photos courtesy of Cover Images.
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- Former US President Donald J Trump makes an early appearance on the first night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the Fiserv Forum This is Trump’s first appearance since a rally in Pennsylvania, where he sustained injuries from an alleged bullet grazing his ear. Trump also named United States Senator JD Vance (Republican of Ohio) as his Vice Presidential running mate. Featuring: former US President Donald J Trump, United States Senator J.D. Vance (Republican of Ohio) Where: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States When: 15 Jul 2024 Credit: CNP/INSTARimages
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- Former US President Donald J Trump makes an early appearance on the first night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the Fiserv Forum This is Trump’s first appearance since a rally in Pennsylvania, where he sustained injuries from an alleged bullet grazing his ear. Trump also named United States Senator JD Vance (Republican of Ohio) as his Vice Presidential running mate. Featuring: former US President Donald J Trump Where: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States When: 15 Jul 2024 Credit: CNP/INSTARimages
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- Former US President Donald J Trump makes an early appearance on the first night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the Fiserv Forum This is Trump’s first appearance since a rally in Pennsylvania, where he sustained injuries from an alleged bullet grazing his ear. Trump also named United States Senator JD Vance (Republican of Ohio) as his Vice Presidential running mate. Featuring: former US President Donald J Trump Where: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States When: 15 Jul 2024 Credit: CNP/INSTARimages
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- Former US President Donald J Trump makes an early appearance on the first night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the Fiserv Forum This is Trump’s first appearance since a rally in Pennsylvania, where he sustained injuries from an alleged bullet grazing his ear. Trump also named United States Senator JD Vance (Republican of Ohio) as his Vice Presidential running mate. Featuring: former US President Donald J Trumpformer US President Donald J Trump, United States Senator J.D. Vance (Republican of Ohio) Where: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States When: 15 Jul 2024 Credit: CNP/INSTARimages
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- Former US President Donald J Trump shakes hands with Speaker of the US House of Representatives Mike Johnson (Republican of Louisiana) on the first night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the Fiserv Forum This is Trump’s first appearance since a rally in Pennsylvania, where he sustained injuries from an alleged bullet grazing his ear. Trump also named United States Senator JD Vance (Republican of Ohio) as his Vice Presidential running mate. Featuring: former US President Donald J Trump, Speaker of the US House of Representatives Mike Johnson (Republican of Louisiana) Where: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States When: 15 Jul 2024 Credit: CNP/INSTARimages
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- Former US President Donald J Trump makes an early appearance on the first night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the Fiserv Forum This is Trump’s first appearance since a rally in Pennsylvania, where he sustained injuries from an alleged bullet grazing his ear. Trump also named United States Senator JD Vance (Republican of Ohio) as his Vice Presidential running mate. Featuring: former US President Donald J Trump Where: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States When: 15 Jul 2024 Credit: CNP/INSTARimages
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- Former US President Donald J Trump makes an early appearance on the first night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the Fiserv Forum This is Trump’s first appearance since a rally in Pennsylvania, where he sustained injuries from an alleged bullet grazing his ear. Trump also named United States Senator JD Vance (Republican of Ohio) as his Vice Presidential running mate. Featuring: former US President Donald J Trump Where: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States When: 15 Jul 2024 Credit: CNP/INSTARimages
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- Former US President Donald J Trump makes an early appearance on the first night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the Fiserv Forum This is Trump’s first appearance since a rally in Pennsylvania, where he sustained injuries from an alleged bullet grazing his ear. Trump also named United States Senator J.D. Vance (Republican of Ohio) as his Vice Presidential running mate. Featuring: former US President Donald J Trump, United States Senator J.D. Vance (Republican of Ohio), Speaker of the US House of Representatives Mike Johnson (Republican of Louisiana) Where: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States When: 15 Jul 2024 Credit: CNP/INSTARimages
Secret service said that it was the glass from the Teleprompter so I believe them before I believe Trump. He was playing golf on Sunday the day after withoutt a bandage on his ear. What I don’t understand is the constant grifting because they were selling T-shirts maybe an hour after that shooting. I don’t believe anything that Donald Trump says ever people go out and vote this year, please
If it had been a bullet his ear would have been gone, and most likely a portion of his head. If the blood was real it was from a small piece of glass, that didn’t require medical attention because there have been no reports from doctors or where he was treated so I assume he wasn’t. The photos and videos from the day after the incident and before he entered the convention floor his ear was uncovered and fine.
Do you have a link? Because I don’t think SS confirmed or denied the glass theory….
From what I’ve seen, when asked if Trump was grazed by a bullet, they refused to comment. Refusing to comment is kinda strange…why not just conclusively confirm what happened and put an end to the speculation?
But it’s a theory that makes a whole helluva lot of sense because it’s really hard to believe that Bonespurs would stay that calm if he’d been grazed by a bullet. I saw the supposed photo of the bullet sailing through the air and IMO it’s hard to tell whether it’s a bullet, a chemtrail, or just some weird effect on a photo.
There is a photo of his ear right after it happened and you see “blood” but the ear is fully intact.
I am an old and recall how the media reported on Reagan’s surgery after the assassination attempt with some level of detail.
The fact that we have heard nothing about this only confirms that at best this was a minor injury that has more than likely already healed.
That’s not what The New York Times reported. There was no mention of a teleprompter.
When I was a kid I liked a massive bandage for the smallest injury, but even I never looked this ridiculous.
Staged theatre 🎭 that is what that massive bandage was all about.. he didn’t play golf yesterday with any bandage and was photographed before the convention without one also. They are trying to make him a victim.. I expect more violence with the way they keep talking.
That bandage looks totally legit. Nothing to see there.
That bandage is going to end up a Halloween costume. Some will slap a bandage on their ear and call it a costume and some will be the bandage.
I had about .001% sympathy for him for a half a second.
“Trump underwent a precautionary CT scan. It came back clear” so no sign of a brain then?
😂😂😂
Haaaaa
The one thing I believe about the medical report is that the CT scan found nothing.
It is very weird that his ear looked fine on Sunday, but, by Monday, he needed a bandage that made it look like his ear had been shot off. 🤔
😂😂😂
Please people, don’t drink the kool-aid, not only is the bandage …. milking the situation. The slithery piece of work is milking the sympathy vote. Why did he jump right up without knowing the all clear? Could it be that young Mr. Cooper was paid to shoot but not wound “numb nut”….. the secret service did their job . They didn’t get the memo it was staged. Unfortunately an innocent, apparently Awesome Mr. Cory’s life was taken, definite Prayers for him, his family and all who were harmed in this staged theatrical miasma.
Hopefully the truth will come out before November elections!!!!!
Milk the blood baby loser…. milk the blood.
Please please please let him squander all the goodwill he’s gained with the raised fist and his ouchie … by falling asleep every night at the convention.
…just need a little drool.
He using it to coverup the fact that it’s a tiny nick from some kind of shrapnel. We all saw the pix Donny.
What a farce
I read Trump went to Ronny Jackson who bandaged him up.
Is he wearing a baseball cap while golfing? Why, as that would aggravate the “wound”. Second, the shooter is either super good or super bad at hitting his target. If he were truly aiming at Trump, it was an easy target to hit. Not that I’m saying it’s okay for anyone to be shot at.
I’m beginning to think this was more a mass shooting attempt than an assassination attempt.
He fits the profile of a school shooter. This may have been more of a suicide by cop while immortalizing his own name type of crime, rather than a politically motivated assassination as we usually think of it.
I also thought mass shooter at first too but I think Rnot nailed it with their description. I know the kid was a registered Republican but from what we know thus far, he seems mostly apolitical or at the very least politically confused. I think it was less about targeting Trump and more about going out in infamy…
@Rnot That makes so much sense.
I don’t know whether this will duplicate. Hope not. I was trying to do two things at once and lost my original comment. I thought he registered Republican as a possible insider voter position against Trump. He’d donated to Biden. There seems to be a feeling he was actually Dem. Have I got this wrong? Also, and this is a reach. I wonder whether the young man had an undiagnosed neurological condition. The Texas campus shooter in the 60s was in his early 20s. At autopsy they found a small brain tutor. I know age rules this out by and large, but just thinking to myself. Brain tumours are a factor in older shooters.
@Sparrow1, the donation was originally reported as being from the shooter but it turned out to be from a much older man with a similar name. This young man was not allowed to join a shooting club because he made them nervous, so that might have been a factor.
This adulation makes me think of John McCain. A man who endured five years of torture as a prisoner of war, for Trump to say McCain isn’t any kind of hero because he was captured. But sure, let’s pretend Donald Trump did something otherworldly by not getting shot during a 15-second spree.
Agree. This is the guy who called those injured or killed in battle ‘losers’. Dude’s a loser.
To be fair a lot of people that say this also called soldiers during the Vietnam and Iraq Wars baby killers. I’m just saying they aughta pick a lane
Not the same, @MickMak, not the same.
I watched about three seconds of that crap, and had a good belly laugh after I heard something about him defending the Constitution. The RNC definitely attracts a “diverse” crowd🙄
I’m no medical examiner but I would think that kind of bullet would rip the whole ear off.
My sister has been a nurse for 20+ years – in the ER of a huge city, so she has seen it all – and said there is no way he was shot in the ear.
Exactly! Most of my family is law enforcement of some kind.. my father was also on the protection team for Presidents when they came to our state. Every single one says there is something seriously off with this entire thing.
Trump could make a few extra bucks by advertising on that giant billboard that’s glued to the side of his head.
I’m honestly shocked that “bandage” (that wasn’t necessary the day before when he went golfing) doesn’t have Trump branding.
Did they give him a sticker and lollipop to go with the plaster.
😂😂😂 thanks for the belly laugh @digital unicorn, and so spot-on. All I can picture is the scene in Elf when Buddy is on the exam table at the pediatrician’s office 😆
I detest conspiracy theories but the cynicism and disbelief expressed in the comments here and yesterday just prove that Trump will never have the trust or goodwill from a huge faction of the voting populous. That *should* be incredibly alarming and it *should* be something that is covered by the media but they’d rather do an endless news cycle detailing every insignificant aspect of what happened on Saturday.
As far as the “incident” goes: well, I was in a midwestern state when it happened so it was an interesting contrast between myself, my husb, and my SIL feeling a whole lotta nothing and several grown men coming close to tears. And I will NEVER apologize for feeling unmoved because that man is an absolute monster.
Here is what I find interesting…
I’m a rideshare driver in Texas. On Saturday, I started my shift about an hour after the shooting and I did 19 rides. Not a single person mentioned the shooting. None of them. Not liberals, not right wingers, no one.
In fact, I still haven’t heard anything from any riders since then about the shooting. And I drive (mostly) in Austin which is a political city and people are not shy about speaking up about politics or elected officials/candidates or just big/breaking news in general.
For context: I was at our airport and read about Kobe Bryant’s death about 15 minutes before I caught a ride. His death was ALL anyone could talk about for the rest of my shift (approx 8 hours).
I don’t know what it means but I keep thinking about that.
What part of Texas? Or if you don’t want to be specific, are you in a city or more rural area?
Because the guy that I was with who was MOST upset was from Texas. And I have NEVER seen him show any kind of strong emotion–certainly not about Jan 6th, which he doesn’t think was a big deal.
I drive in Austin and the surrounding rural and very red counties/towns. So a mix of politics. Even the carload of 5 drunk white Republican frat dudes who spouted racism, homophobia, and misogyny didn’t mention it.
I think that firefighter’s daughter who felt him die while he covered her body with his own would be relieved to know it wasn’t real.
Alex Jones isn’t someone we should be getting inspiration from.
No one is saying the shooting wasn’t real.
What’s in doubt is if Trump got hit by a bullet or glass
Khat, does it matter?
Chez Sparrow. We are still in shock at the fist pumping and “fight fight”. We thought he was swearing in some kind of pain, sort of **** ****. I know I’d be swearing the air blue if it had happened to me. We are so dumb. Trump’s like some maverick politician from decades and decades gone by, riding on the febrile crest of the the lowest common denominator.
I honestly don’t know what to think about the shooting and whether or not it was an attempted assassination.
One of the things that confuses me is why Trump tried to get up. I’m sure he has received training on what to do and the SS agents were trying to keep him down. So why did he try to stand back up?
I think it was real. But, like you, I don’t know what the hell he was doing getting back up, and, more important, why they were letting him. There could’ve been multiple shooters.
AND he yelled that he needed his shoes. Couldn’t be seen without his lifts!! Even amid chaos, his ego takes over.
@Victoria Haha I would yell for my shoes, too, because I have sensitive feet. Maybe Big Boy Trump has delicate feetsies. 🦶🏻🦶🏻
Let’s make sure this traitor and all his rats NEVER get back in the White House again. We will lose our freedom along with the Bill of Rights.
Trump went on “Truth” Social claiming a bullet caused that wound. If the SS reports to Congress that the would was caused by shattered glass Trump will dragged for filth for over dramatizing his near death experience (yes it was serious) , but not to talk to the widow to convey condolences for the lost is reprehensible. Same for those that are injured.
Not to sound like a conspiracy theorist but does anyone believe that it is beneath Trump to stage an assassination attempt like a WWE spectacle? The timing was perfect for political reasons, the ‘damage’ was less than minimal, the USSS looked like Keystone cops and the ‘iconic’ photo after the ‘shooting’ looked rehearsed. All for maximum drama and the appearance of divine intervention.
Agree Karen! It is all so suss. I believe what Tr*mp’s team tells us about as much as I’d believe Kensington or Buckingham Palace. My husband and I watched it happen and we both immediately thought it was staged. Who knows… “I don’t really care, do u?”
Well, if you discount the dead guy, in the stands…
They’re just “collateral damage”. Trump throws people under the bus all the time. He didn’t care Mike Pence was in real danger on Jan 6th because he only cares about power. He’ll probably use the victims family as a campaign prop by the election. Considering his long history with manipulating the news cycle there is no bottom for this tabloid stunt queen.
In terms of Donald’s distant demeanor around his new VP, I was wondering if he was aware that Usha Vance was Indian ( maybe he imagined a Swede) . Anyway, I bet his MAGAS and he will be uncomfortable with brown people in the presumptive Second family. So shallow of them, but I am for anything that deprives the ticket of votes.
If he needed something that absorbent on his actively-bleeding wound two days later, maybe he should have been in a hospital getting a blood transfusion.
He has not called, contacted or spoken to the dead man’s family or the 2 seriously injured. No one from his campaign has reached out either. And curious, who are the 2 people we were told were seriously injured? No media contacting them? Curious. He is, however, grifting away on Saturday’s “incident”: selling another pair of f*cking sneakers (must have a sweet deal with a Chinese sneaker making sweat shop) w/his oh so perfect photo-op from Saturday-the picture the SService paused to let him rise up, pump his fist and yell fight x 3 with the American flag perfectly positioned in the background. And the opening of the convention featured those MAGA cult freaks pumping their fists, yelling fight, fight, fight. So much for toned down rhetoric and unity. That only applies to the democrats, who must not say a word against this violent, rapist, pedophile, convicted felon, con artist, Hitler wannabe now that he “almost died”. I’ve run out of English words to describe how despicable he is – any commenters from other countries want to lend me some words?
My prediction: he will wear the puffy ear bandage for months, maybe years to come. I don’t believe his ear was grazed by a bullet, as he claims, but that the glass from the teleprompter cut his ear. He probably thinks of himself now as a war hero now and that he “almost died for the American people.” I could vomit. He and his MAGATS have do not GAF about the thousands of people in this country who have been slaughtered by guns in mass shootings in movie theaters, malls, schools, you name it. I’m sorry the firefighter who lost his life protecting his family. I am also sorry if this would-be assassination attempt unifies the Rethugs around their Chief Cretin. And said Cretin would have NO PROBLEM if the same thing happened to President Biden. We all know this.
I guarantee you he will be wearing the puffy bandage for months, even years to come. Fraud, fraud, fraud. He was never shot in the ear. It was the glass from the teleprompter. The news reported it was the glass, but the lying liar wanted to “take one for the American people.” At this point, I can honestly not despise him more. My head is going to explode.