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Chasstev365

(8,197 posts)
Sun Apr 26, 2026, 07:50 AM Apr 26

Real or Fake:

I still despise the treasonous, blackmailed, billions of dollar grifting, egotistical, sexual predator, narcissist, fraud of a president.

And you know what? I doubt many will be swayed or suddenly feel sympathy becuase of this event.

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Real or Fake: (Original Post) Chasstev365 Apr 26 OP
Real or fake? vishnura Apr 26 #1
Real or fake? vishnura Apr 26 #2
Fake news SallyHemmings Apr 26 #3
I think it was staged so he can demand his bulletproof ballroom. sinkingfeeling Apr 26 #4
Totally agree! Emile Apr 26 #9
Playing upon the "Sympathy Factor" to the hilt. magicarpet Apr 26 #5
Is this the 4th attempt? Brunett43 Apr 26 #6
How many times can the little boy cry wolf? BattleRow Apr 26 #18
Putin said it would boost popularity. Blue Full Moon Apr 26 #7
Did she Rebl2 Apr 26 #23
I think she said there would be shots fired, same same but different. Bev54 Apr 26 #24
I saw that, makes one wonder about her choice of words vapor2 Apr 26 #31
Totally fake, scripted, things just don't add up ashredux Apr 26 #8
It's fake Farmer-Rick Apr 26 #10
I think The Fascist Grifter wanted to deliver his speech Martin Eden Apr 26 #11
It doesn't matter whether it's real or fake at this point, because ms liberty Apr 26 #12
As a Canadian, I really don't care, it is another shrug and a call me he is gone. Bev54 Apr 26 #25
I can't believe it really matters. Xavier Breath Apr 26 #13
Real kooky CT nonsense . Nt Fiendish Thingy Apr 26 #14
Depends ... follow the fate of the shooter Auggie Apr 26 #15
Yeah... radical noodle Apr 26 #21
It really doesn't matter... Hugin Apr 26 #16
The narcissistic wanker want to think it's about him. May not be at all. paleotn Apr 26 #17
This is too good malaise Apr 26 #19
Run Mikey run vapor2 Apr 26 #32
250 years without a Ball Room! homegirl Apr 26 #20
Why was security so lax? Makes no sense to me. yardwork Apr 26 #22
Perfectly choreographed spectacle Clouds Passing Apr 26 #26
No, not perfectly choregraphed. mwmisses4289 Apr 26 #27
Just like a Broadway play, many people believe those are perfectly choreographed yet not real life events Clouds Passing Apr 26 #28
I am once again puzzled.... GopherGal Apr 26 #30
When everything out of his mouth Mr. Evil Apr 26 #29

vishnura

(362 posts)
1. Real or fake?
Sun Apr 26, 2026, 07:58 AM
Apr 26

Fake to cover up his dismal failure on all fronts. Release the Butler, PA files now! It might add some credibility to the WHCD fiasco.

vishnura

(362 posts)
2. Real or fake?
Sun Apr 26, 2026, 07:58 AM
Apr 26

Fake to cover up his dismal failure on all fronts. Release the Butler, PA files now! It might add some credibility to the WHCD fiasco.

magicarpet

(19,477 posts)
5. Playing upon the "Sympathy Factor" to the hilt.
Sun Apr 26, 2026, 08:26 AM
Apr 26

Poor,... Poor donnie. He is such a good president that everyone wants to gun him down.

Blue Full Moon

(3,672 posts)
7. Putin said it would boost popularity.
Sun Apr 26, 2026, 08:45 AM
Apr 26

Trump's popularity has cratered. Karoline Leavitt said there would be bullets flying.

vapor2

(4,991 posts)
31. I saw that, makes one wonder about her choice of words
Sun Apr 26, 2026, 08:01 PM
Apr 26

Inclined to think it was staged since he is SO SO desperate for poll numbers and losing the war

Farmer-Rick

(12,792 posts)
10. It's fake
Sun Apr 26, 2026, 09:10 AM
Apr 26

Pedo Trump hated those correspondent dinners. He can now claim they aren't safe.

Also he can now up his demand to destroy the remains of the grounds of the white house by building a huge pedo house/ballroom-with-bedrooms next to the historical building.

Martin Eden

(15,921 posts)
11. I think The Fascist Grifter wanted to deliver his speech
Sun Apr 26, 2026, 09:21 AM
Apr 26

The "fake news" press corps would be a captive audience as he told them to their face what a pack of disgraceful liars they are who hate America.

ms liberty

(11,400 posts)
12. It doesn't matter whether it's real or fake at this point, because
Sun Apr 26, 2026, 09:46 AM
Apr 26

Almost everyone thinks it's fake. The general consensus that I'm seeing is disbelief by everyone except the hard core magats. Memes abound. Many involving tin foil and eyerolls.
I find it hilarious.

Auggie

(33,330 posts)
15. Depends ... follow the fate of the shooter
Sun Apr 26, 2026, 09:56 AM
Apr 26

Will they be silenced? Sentenced with a slap on the wrist? "Disappeared?"

I think that will tell a lot.

radical noodle

(10,699 posts)
21. Yeah...
Sun Apr 26, 2026, 10:24 AM
Apr 26

This guy seems different from the other two "attempts." He's a teacher, seems to be very bright and successful. Why and how could they recruit him to do such a thing unless something has happened in his life that made him want to commit suicide?

Hugin

(38,033 posts)
16. It really doesn't matter...
Sun Apr 26, 2026, 10:04 AM
Apr 26

The event has been touched by shit midas. The ball will grow as the obliging media tumblebugs roll it incessantly ad nauseam.

Pathetic.

paleotn

(22,820 posts)
17. The narcissistic wanker want to think it's about him. May not be at all.
Sun Apr 26, 2026, 10:11 AM
Apr 26

Maybe the gunman wanted to shoot the journalists.

Really, though, I think this was way to convenient. I lean heavily towards fake. Guess he figured the fake ear wound was too over the top to do twice.

homegirl

(1,995 posts)
20. 250 years without a Ball Room!
Sun Apr 26, 2026, 10:18 AM
Apr 26

Any ideas on how many days it will be before Iran and the Epstein Files make it back to coverage on TV and the media?

mwmisses4289

(4,804 posts)
27. No, not perfectly choregraphed.
Sun Apr 26, 2026, 10:47 AM
Apr 26

If it had been, more people would believe it was real. As it is most are saying staged.

Clouds Passing

(8,214 posts)
28. Just like a Broadway play, many people believe those are perfectly choreographed yet not real life events
Sun Apr 26, 2026, 11:00 AM
Apr 26

GopherGal

(2,960 posts)
30. I am once again puzzled....
Sun Apr 26, 2026, 04:27 PM
Apr 26

this time by the timing. Why deliver Act 2 in the sympathy play just as the MAGAts are finally figuring out that Butler was a sham? A few months ago most of them still would have believed this was happening again. It might have been a "see, there really are crazed Antifa zealots that want to kill our Savior Donald" situation. At least this time they don't have any unfortunate collateral casualties among those unfortunate enough to be seated behind the oaf.

Mr. Evil

(3,472 posts)
29. When everything out of his mouth
Sun Apr 26, 2026, 11:05 AM
Apr 26

and his administration is a lie, who could accept anything said about this latest event as truth? The shooter was probably one of Alex Jones unemployed "crisis actors."

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