Right? And that he had the wherewithal to resist the Secret Service agents so that he could stop and make his fist-in-the-air photo op…
You can’t help thinking: a) totally fearless guy, or b) guy who knew about all this in advance and knew he was in no real danger.
I’m not really serious about Trump being in on it, though—I can’t see him okaying any plan that could mean he’d get his skin nicked. Of course if he wasn’t hit by the bullet but by flying glass from the teleprompter, then…hmm…
The regular human answer is during high adrenaline situation you sometimes focus on odd mundane things.
The Trump answer is his shoes make him look closer to the 6’3” he pretends to be and they help him with his weird lean problem.
It’s common for people in a crisis to suddenly fixate on something. I’m sure there’s some psychology term for it, but think of how people can often get really absorbed in something mundane after a car accident, such as how crooked their glasses became or whether their shoelaces are tied. I read it’s like a form of grounding yourself back to reality after something shocking and unexpecting.
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Little hands, little feet, little…
The level of false flag discourse around this has actually surprised me. Amidst all that, there have been enough Bob Roberts references made that Tim Robbins felt like he had to say something.
or (c) he heard secret service give the all clear/once they stand up it means he’s safe/lots of adrenalin; and also Trump has a visceral connection with his audience and is always a showman, even after that happened**. The last two being instinct and just who he is.
**It’s not clear to me what Trump would have thought occurred in that moment, but even if he knew he’d been shot at, his adrenalin/not being hurt were enough to allow him to be himself for a few moments.
Many, many years ago, I wrecked my truck - badly. Went into the median on a divided highway in the middle of nowhere. Truck flipped two and half times and landed on the driver’s side. I unbuckled (which inarguably saved my life), stood up in the cab and walked out the back window (which was gone). I then went back into the truck to turn the headlights off because one of the headlights was still working and “I don’t want to blind anybody coming down the road.” You really do think of the weirdest things. I also found the back window back about 100 feet, picked it up, and walked back to the truck to put it in the (now sidewise) bed, so “it wouldn’t get lost”.
I’m giving Trump that one. When you are being shot at/being shot you don’t think clearly. I know this from personal experience.
Assumptions: They got knocked off when the SS tackled him down, and without the lifts in his shoes he’d be and look shorter. Can’t have that.
When I fell straight forward into a faceplant that dislocated my shoulder, my glasses came off and as I was being attended to by the paramedics I kept asking to have them put back on my face – not possible, since both they and my nose bone were broken. As @Velocity says, in a sudden shock or crisis a small detail can be an anchor to the disrupted reality.
Also, vanity, as pointed out above.
Physics according to Charles Schulz…
Does anybody know exactly where the man who was killed was sitting? Or the other guy who was injured? For some reason, I don’t think they were particularly close to Trump. If that’s the case, then the fact that Trump was (maybe) nicked by a bullet means that it was an incredibly lucky shot. What’s also lucky is the fact that nobody else was injured.
Also, with the lifts, his heel is barely inside the shoe at all. They’re probably really easy slip-ons.
On the rare occasions that I wear dress shoes with dress socks, my heels will lift out of them just by crouching down. I’m sure they’d come off if someone knocked me over while I was crouched down.
I’m no expert either, but I would think that it would be easier to hit a stationary passenger in a predictably moving vehicle than a public speaker, on his feet, making quick, random motions and gestures.
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Expensive Ferragamo’s?
I was asking why do shoes always come off?Car wrecks, getting knocked down or falling a short distance, running from the law. Now gunshot.
Shoes just fly off.
Baffles me.
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Assuming the bullets were coming from Trump’s right, then the man must have been sitting to Trump’s left, and probably quite far from Trump, given the angle the bullets would have been taking.
ABC Nightly News had a special report on the shooting. A local officer went on the roof to confront the shooter just before the shot. The officer retreated when the rifle was pointed at him.
I think that disruption may have broken the shooters concentration. Enough to throw off his aim by a couple inches.