# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2015, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/41 "2015-12-10T19:44:48Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > …Where did I get that everyone is being criticized by everyone? From the news. > > And, yeah, I’m not suggesting anything. This is observation. (post shortened) Yes, the news media has been trying to create the impression that “everyone” is objecting to the snippet of Trump’s remarks that the news media chooses to play. Especially CNN. It’s like CNN is trying to influence the election instead of reporting the news. :eek: The problem with using the term “everyone” is that it seldom actually means “everyone”. That’s just silly. Have you met everyone? Do the polls show a drop in Trump’s support? Do the polls show a drop in the credibility of the news media? A title of _The Assassination of Donald Trump_ seems to be more than just an observation, but I’ll accept your word that it’s only an observation. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2015, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/42 "2015-12-10T19:49:02Z")
> [@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. President Joe Biden insures that Obama is safe from harm. Joe, plus the whore-mongering drunks sworn to protect the POTUS. ---
**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, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/43 "2015-12-10T19:58:50Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > President Joe Biden insures that Obama is safe from harm. Joe, plus the whore-mongering drunks sworn to protect the POTUS. If someone is willing to potentially take a bullet meant for me, I have no problem if he gets wasted and mongers a few whores on his day off. But that’s me. ---
**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, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/44 "2015-12-10T20:02:18Z")
I’m going to have to stop drinking coffee while reading SDMB. I just spouted hot coffee all over my laptop again. > [@doorhinge](#): > > Especially CNN. It’s like CNN is trying to influence the election instead of reporting the news. :eek: As opposed to Fair and Balanced news channels? :dubious: I seriously doubt CNN is hoping to influence anything. They’re just hoping their tiny cadre of remaining viewers will stick around for the next commercial. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2015, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/45 "2015-12-10T20:02:27Z")
Considering that one of the drug lords allegedly put a $100 million bounty on his head over remarks he was making earlier this year, I’m actually kind of surprised there hasn’t been an attempt on his life. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2015, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/46 "2015-12-10T20:21:29Z")
You know I was thinking a great SNL sketch would be Christopher Walken returning to host and doing all kinds of press and he meets Donald Trump and shakes his hand and then like in the movie he starred in, The Dead Zone, see’s him being elected president and some apocalyptic, nuclear scenario taking place and assassinates him. 😃 ---
**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, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/47 "2015-12-10T20:56:16Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Considering that one of the drug lords allegedly put a $100 million bounty on his head over remarks he was making earlier this year, I’m actually kind of surprised there hasn’t been an attempt on his life. IMHO, anybody stupid enough to think a drug lord is actually going to fork over $100M is too stupid to plot an effective assassination. I’d like to see that conversation: “I’ve come to collect my reward!” :sounds of automatic gunfire: ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2015, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/48 "2015-12-10T21:15:23Z")
Obama didn’t even get a shoe thrown his way in his first term. I doubt anyone’s going to go after Trump. Maybe someone who thinks he betrayed the conservative cause – he’s espoused some lib ideas, but they seem to go under the radar for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2015, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/49 "2015-12-10T21:18:21Z")
Jeb might get one of his guys to do it since Trump stole [www.jebbush.com](http://www.jebbush.com). It redirects to Trumps website. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/50 "2015-12-10T21:21:46Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > Obama didn’t even get a shoe thrown his way in his first term. I doubt anyone’s going to go after Trump. Maybe someone who thinks he betrayed the conservative cause – he’s espoused some lib ideas, but they seem to go under the radar for some reason. The people supporting Trump aren’t ‘real’ conservatives. They’re angry morons who think a rich person with a big mouth is ‘their guy’ because he ‘says what he believes’, regardless of how accurate he is. ---
**Author:** ![SeniorCitizen007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@SeniorCitizen007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeniorCitizen007)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/51 "2015-12-11T00:13:49Z")
I think Trump needs to worry about the Klingons. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/52 "2015-12-11T00:26:38Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Given the title and comments, it wouldn’t surprise me if this thread popped up on SS/Homeland Security systems…think about that, all y’all. :eek: > > That said, any political figure is subject to threats, but given that President Obama is completing nearly seven years in office and not a single shot being taken at him, I think that either security has vastly improved over time or people just don’t bother shooting politicians all than much anymore. I was thinking the same thing. I post on another board that had an anti-Obama board in late 2008 and early 2009 that got this fiber arts website on the Secret Service’s radar because of some things that were posted on there. I couldn’t believe some of the things I saw on there myself; a lot of people were banned, and it wouldn’t surprise me if some of them are serving very long prison terms because they posted that they wanted to assassinate the POTUS AND how they planned to do it. :eek: They must have thought that because you have to register to post on that board, and at the time read posts too, it wouldn’t be seen by anyone outside that site. Wrong-o-rama. For several years afterwards, the single word that was this group’s name was flagged, and any reference to that group would get an immediate message from an administrator telling the offender that they had better edit that post ASAP or it would be done for them, and a second offense would lead to banning. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/53 "2015-12-11T00:29:01Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > 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. Don’t have a source, but I did hear recently that some companies are refusing to book conventions, etc. at Trump properties. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/54 "2015-12-11T02:14:46Z")
I think Trump is (far) less of a target than Obama, and there haven’t been any serious attempts on Obama that I know of. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/55 "2015-12-11T03:34:12Z")
Assassinations, like mass shootings in today, and hijackings in the 70s and 80s, are driven by media spectacle. In the 1960s, when someone wanted to make a name for themselves, they assassinated someone. Nowadays they shoot up a school or a movie theater. Once we do have a major political figure assassinated, we’ll probably see a few more in quick succession. On the bright side, it will probably mean fewer mass shootings. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/56 "2015-12-11T05:52:44Z")
It’s not as to Trump himself, but conservative [media](http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/221043/) has picked up on an ACLU local board member who posted on Facebook a suggestion to threaten Trump voters with assassination: > [@](#): > > The thing is, we have to really reach out to those who might consider voting for Trump and say, “This is Goebbels. This is the final solution. If you are voting for him I will have to shoot you before election day.” They’re not going to listen to reason, so when justice is gone, there’s always force, as Laurie would say. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/57 "2015-12-11T14:12:24Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Assassinations, like mass shootings in today, and hijackings in the 70s and 80s, are driven by media spectacle. In the 1960s, when someone wanted to make a name for themselves, they assassinated someone. Nowadays they shoot up a school or a movie theater. > > Once we do have a major political figure assassinated, we’ll probably see a few more in quick succession. On the bright side, it will probably mean fewer mass shootings. Perhaps one could say that of Oswald, and certainly that of Hinckley, but they seem to be in the minority. I don’t think either Wallace’s or King’s shooters were motivated by the need for publicity. Nor do I think that was Sirhan’s motivation. It seems to me that the advocacy of a cause (Booth, Sirhan, Ray) or mental illness (Squeaky) are more prominent causes. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/58 "2015-12-11T14:15:43Z")
Wallace’s killer had no poiltical motive. RFK and JFK’s killers did, but it was still senseless. The last Presidential assassination to actually make sense was Lincoln’s. Booth’s motive was clear and his target made sense given his motives. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/59 "2015-12-11T14:21:02Z")
I stand corrected for Arthur Bremer, whose diary revealed his desire for fame. ---
**Author:** ![OffByOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/45deac/32.png) [@OffByOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OffByOne)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934/60 "2015-12-14T16:43:43Z")
> [@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. That would be the “official” story. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/739934.md?page=4)