# The Assassination of Donald Trump **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [December 9, 2015, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934 "2015-12-09T12:28:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/21 "2015-12-09T19:30:08Z")
I fear the coming day when I walk into my aunt’s house and see Killing Trump by Bill O’Reilly on her coffee table. Perhaps more probable still though is an attack of some sort on Trump Tower or another of the Donald’s properties. I wouldn’t want to office, live or vacation at any of them, for a variety of reasons actually. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/22 "2015-12-09T19:50:23Z")
As much as I can’t stand what he stands for, I could never accept that there was a reason to assassinate him. Lobotomize him perhaps, but not assassinate. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/23 "2015-12-09T20:14:36Z")
I’d fear that nuts with guns (aka the Republican base) would take it out on the group the shooter came from - or the group they assumed the shooter came from even if he didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/24 "2015-12-09T20:17:50Z")
I for one do not want to see Trump off’d this year because I do not have him in my 2015 [SDMB Dead Pool.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=742233) Please wait until 2016. I have cookies… ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/25 "2015-12-09T20:40:15Z")
IMO, the type of personality likely to become a deranged political assassin is the same type of personality likely to support Trump. Thus, if there is a psycho somewhere practicing his sniper rifle accuracy, I don’t think Trump is his intended target. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/26 "2015-12-09T20:48:16Z")
But if there is a psycho somewhere practicing his sniper rifle accuracy, please wait until 2016. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/27 "2015-12-09T21:00:08Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I could see some worried Democrat or some fed-up Republican official wanting to Rid Us of this Troublesome Blowhard. It would be like Howard Beale\* in reverse – he wouldn’t be the first man shot because he got Low Ratings, but because they were high. > Whaddaya think? I think it’s just as likely a Trump supporter takes a shot at Hilary. More likely, even. To me, the big question is are they going to do it because Hilary is an “ISIS lover”, “gun taker-awayer”, or “BENGHAZIIIIIIII!!!”. I wouldn’t be surprised to see someone take a shot at the President because of his “Muslim-loving ways”. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/28 "2015-12-09T22:12:26Z")
The suicide-bombing Muslin from ISIS, with the bomb hidden under clothing, finally gets almost close enough to President-elect Trump to trigger the bomb – only to be cut down by a stray bullet from the AK-47 fired by an illegal alien rapist in the pay of a Mexican drug lord, who was not sober enough to aim carefully at the Donald. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2015, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/29 "2015-12-10T01:50:17Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I was thinking that I wouldn’t be surprised if someone took a shot at him for any number of reasons. But I wouldn’t expect it from within either party - more likely, it would be someone from one of the many groups he’s gone out of his way to offend. You’d think so, but since assassination is an insane act in a democracy, in practice assassins have almost never been from groups that were offended by a President, at least not in the sense that mainstream members of their group would be offended. The last Trump-like candidate was George Wallace, and he was shot by a guy for pretty much no reason at all. Other famous Presidents or Presidential candidates in recent years were also shot pretty randomly. Hinckley did it for Jodie Foster, RFK was shot by a Palestinian, and JFK was shot by a communist. While the KEnnedy murders were overtly political, they were also senseless because why would a sensible political activist kill the lesser of the two evils are far as your cause goes? It would seem that Obama is more likely to be murdered by a Latino or Muslim activist than Trump if history is any judge. ---
**Author:** ![Sputnikkk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Sputnikkk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sputnikkk)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2015, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/30 "2015-12-10T03:25:19Z")
I thought for sure Obama would get shot my some crazy skinhead and if that didn’t happen I don’t think Trump will get shot either, but it is interesting to think what if… The US is so crazy and paranoid right now and so many groups of them are armed with guns, so if Trump was assassinated I think people would jump up grab their guns and go out and shoot each other. …it would be mass hysteria shootings all across America. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2015, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/31 "2015-12-10T03:47:31Z")
It’s always the threat you don’t anticipate. It’ll be an environmentalist or anti-war activist who gets Obama if anybody does. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2015, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/32 "2015-12-10T10:57:04Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > It’s always the threat you don’t anticipate. It’ll be an environmentalist or anti-war activist who gets Obama if anybody does. That’s a good point, and it pretty much makes everyone on the left guilty already! I mean, just look at John Hinkley, Jr. A well-known conservative economist who didn’t think Reagan cut taxes enough. Well, that and Jodie Foster… ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2015, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/33 "2015-12-10T11:04:36Z")
Yes, there’s also the totally random ones, like the guy who shot George Wallace. Weren’t Ford’s would be assassins also non-political? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2015, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/34 "2015-12-10T11:45:32Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Yes, there’s also the totally random ones, like the guy who shot George Wallace. > > Weren’t Ford’s would be assassins also non-political? Sara Jane Moore was a left-wing political extremist. Lynette Fromme was just nuts. ETA: To be fair, Moore was a left-wing political extremist AND nuts. Her political stance was not exactly rational in itself; she was obsessed with Patty Hearst and the SLA. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2015, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/35 "2015-12-10T11:52:56Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I mean, just look at John Hinkley, Jr. A well-known conservative economist who didn’t think Reagan cut taxes enough. Well, that and Jodie Foster… I thought it was Robert DeNiro who assassinated for Jodie Foster. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2015, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/36 "2015-12-10T12:26:14Z")
Yes, but in real life Hinkley tried to be a real life Travis Bickle, so he took a shot at Reagan to impress Ms. Foster. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2015, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/37 "2015-12-10T12:37:27Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Lynette Fromme was just nuts. Show some respect and call her by her preferred name. Got your back, Squeaky. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2015, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/38 "2015-12-10T13:58:49Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > I thought it was Robert DeNiro who assassinated for Jodie Foster. You talkin’ to ME? ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2015, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/39 "2015-12-10T14:01:26Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Show some respect and call her by her preferred name. > > Got your back, Squeaky. This post motivated me to read a bit about her. It turns out she is a much worse person than I thought. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2015, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/40 "2015-12-10T15:41:51Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Lobotomize him perhaps, but not assassinate. Who would be able to tell the difference? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934.md?page=3)