Some MAGA Voters say Trump Assassination Attempt was Staged
Alternet writes about the growing sentiment in the MAGA movement that the 2024 assassination attempt on Trump was staged.
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NEW: Much of MAGA is now convinced that the Trump assassination attempt in Butler, PA was staged www.wired.com/story/maga-i ... [image or embed] -- David Gilbert (@davidgilbert.bsky.social) Apr 17, 2026 at 9:28 AM
NEW: Much of MAGA is now convinced that the Trump assassination attempt in Butler, PA was staged www.wired.com/story/maga-i ... [image or embed]
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It's been a minute since the loathsome orange chomo cracked a joke about the dead firefighter.
#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-04-17 03:01 PM | Reply
The television-quality drama of the "assassination attempt" is enough to cause suspicion that the entire thing was faked.
Shortly, Trump will have to start killing off witnesses to the conspiracy.
Maybe he already is? Anyone know?
#2 | Posted by Zed at 2026-04-18 09:16 AM | Reply
I agree with analysis that states MAGA worrying about the authenticity of what happened in Butler is a big sign that the man is going down.
His reaction to this will not be smooth.
We Americans individually, and as a group, get our best protection against Trump with a massive turnout to vote in November.
We need to intimidate the man enough so that Trump the Coward shows up during the election, so that all we have to fear is more of the man's endless moaning about rigged elections.
#3 | Posted by Zed at 2026-04-18 09:21 AM | Reply
I remember how "wrestlers" on television in the old days would hide something sharp in their tape wrist wrappings and cut themselves to heighten the drama for the rubes at home that truly believed pro wrestling was real. It's the same today with those that believe MAGA is real. My tinfoil hat theory is that his ear was nicked by a piece of the prompter when it was hit. That, and the sketchy, rather miraculous way his ear shows no scaring now puts it in the realm of possibilities that this was indeed staged, but the shooter evidently changed the script.
#4 | Posted by dutch46 at 2026-04-18 10:24 AM | Reply
No fecal matter. He had something squirted on his head. Pretty obvious, if you've ever dealt with actual wounds.
#5 | Posted by morris at 2026-04-18 11:32 AM | Reply
The most gullible, conspiracy driven voting segment is starting to believe in a conspiracy theory?
Inconceivable.
#6 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-04-18 12:20 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
"The most gullible, conspiracy driven voting segment is starting to believe in the truth? Inconceivable."
#7 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-04-18 12:46 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
The magic bullet ... shrapnel ... debris..? that tore Trump's thin skin causing him to bleed but leaving behind zero scars, marks or injuries.
The entire performance was choreographed to the last moment.
Only complete morons actually believe that was an assassination attempt.
#8 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-04-18 12:52 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
No s*^%.
#9 | Posted by jpw at 2026-04-18 01:02 PM | Reply
On one hand, I find it really hard to believe that it was staged.
On the other hand, it really, really looks like it was.
#10 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-04-18 01:11 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2
You people are insane. Probably Apollo 11 deniers and flat Earthers also.
#11 | Posted by rf4b at 2026-04-18 07:22 PM | Reply
Come on.
Just watch it objectively.
It's all choreographed.
Trump is acting like he's an action hero.
There's footage of Trump at a rally where a loud explosion is heard and he runs off like a scared cat.
There are zero wounds.
The blood splatter is wrong for the injury he supposedly suffered.
Theres "shooter" was spotted by several people attending the rally and the cops and the security detail. Everyone was aware he was there. But no one investigated why he was there.
It was Trump's only nationally televised campaign rally.
Etc etc etc ...
#12 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-04-18 07:30 PM | Reply
They also started wearing maxi pads on their ears.
So there's really no talking to these people.
#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-04-18 07:41 PM | Reply
And the blood appeared exactly in the manner in professional wrestlers fall down and cut themselves when it's hard for the crowd to see.
And the existence of the shooter was removed from the Internet, just like WrestleMania 20 and Chris Benoit was removed from WWE lore.
#14 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-04-18 08:11 PM | Reply
Right. Trump is agile enough to do that? LMAO
#15 | Posted by rf4b at 2026-04-18 09:33 PM | Reply
Secret Service huddled photographers into the ideal angle.
SS violated its own protocol, allowing the target to return to vulnerability.
A flag on a crane was lowered AFTER the first shot.
Multiple folks informed security of the guy on the roof. They ignored the information.
The blood streak on Trump's right cheek isn't blood spatter, it's an arc made by a human hand.
No attending physician has ever made any statement on the record, ever. That's NEVER HAPPENED in our lifetimes.
Workers at the hospital, already under HIPPA rules, had to sign an additional NDA.
Ear cartilage was either undamaged, or miraculous regrew for the first time in recorded history.
NONE of these issues have been addressed, much less resolved.
#16 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-04-18 11:01 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
You people are insane.
No, you're just an idiot.
#17 | Posted by jpw at 2026-04-18 11:15 PM | Reply
Who thinks tampon ear Trump wouldn't have posted the pictures of his battle scared ear had he received any?
#18 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-04-18 11:18 PM | Reply
100%
He wouldn't have shut up about it if it was real.
#19 | Posted by jpw at 2026-04-18 11:33 PM | Reply
He would have built a monument to his ear in Butler, Pennsylvania.
#20 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-04-19 01:37 AM | Reply
Guys, There isn't even a scar, There are no bits of his ear missing, The bandage wasn't bloody, There is no scar and this was all staged for attention and manipulation, Just like this war, To deflect from his predilection for children,
#21 | Posted by gypsydiane8177 at 2026-04-19 08:26 AM | Reply
"Some MAGA voters" and what follows is anecdotal evidence. How about a couple of polls or something more substantive than this. Our corporate media is such a joke.
#22 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-04-19 10:30 AM | Reply
Our corporate media is such a joke.
#22 | Posted by BellRinger
So is the current president of the United States, so it evens out.
#23 | Posted by Zed at 2026-04-19 10:39 AM | Reply
#24 | Posted by Zed at 2026-04-19 10:39 AM | Reply
Of course the assassination attempt was real. What other possible reason could the most alpha of all alpha males have for walking around with a maxi pad on his head?
#25 | Posted by anton at 2026-04-19 11:46 AM | Reply
#22 as usual, you're on the wrong side.
#26 | Posted by jpw at 2026-04-19 01:01 PM | Reply
Our corporate media is such a joke. #22 | Posted by BellRinger
And yet you don't see Capitalism as the reason why. Care to explain how corporate media is a joke, but Capitalism bears no responsibility for playing this joke on us?
That's rhetorical, obviously. You've can't explain anything.
#27 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-04-19 01:04 PM | Reply
Et tu, sporkfoot?
www.thedailybeast.com
#28 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-04-19 01:35 PM | Reply
I have always believed it was fully staged. WTF? Who in reality gets shot and immediately jumps up waving his fist in defiance? Doesn't happen except in maybe another bad Steven Seagal movie. But you MAGAts just sucked it up like flies on shot.
#29 | Posted by moder8 at 2026-04-19 01:46 PM | Reply
And some people say the Tooth Fairy is make believe.
#30 | Posted by moder8 at 2026-04-19 01:54 PM | Reply
Do they also deny we went to the moon?
#31 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-04-19 08:58 PM | Reply
Clown,
"The entire performance was choreographed to the last moment."
Killing the shooter was staged?
Is he actually in hiding on a sandy beach living in luxury courtesy Donald Trump?
#32 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-04-19 09:02 PM | Reply
Like Duh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#33 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2026-04-19 09:48 PM | Reply
" Killing the shooter was staged?"
Why would it need to be staged?
It's just collateral damage as far as Trump is concerned. If somebody has to die, fine. Heck, he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue; why not in Butler?
#34 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-04-19 09:56 PM | Reply
Dan,
"It's just collateral damage as far as Trump is concerned"
If you actually believe what you wrote, you're in bad shape.
Now...the CIA making someone leap out a window or disappear, that I'd believe.
But stage an assassination and kill the shooter?
Unless he participated in it thinking they would let him escape, but they shot him instead so he can't talk.
Maybe you think that?
#35 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-04-19 10:03 PM | Reply
@#35 ..., If you actually believe what you wrote, you're in bad shape. ...
Could the same be said of the comments you post?
#36 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-04-19 10:15 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
#35 bj boi proves he's an askhole with his "question," "But stage an assassination and kill the shooter?"
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#37 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-04-19 10:20 PM | Reply
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