Donald Trump abruptly ends interview: "We're in danger"

Yeah, he should retire and have that looked at. Poor guy, he needs some rest. At his age....

I have PTSD from his presidency

Trump's policies resulted in thousands of veterans with PTSD being denied treatment by the VA on account of lack of funding. If anyone deserves to suffer from it, he does.

I hate the orange shitbag and have no sympathy if he is suffering. I genuinely want good things for all people. But he wants bad things for many people and so my wishes for good things don’t extend to him, his ilk, etc.

Sounds like SS told him that. He said security doesn’t want us here.

Do you think someone suffering from PTSD will be able to fulfill their duties as President?

It's starting to sound more and more like he does. It would be completely understandable given what happened.

Also I'm sorry for what you went through, and I hope it gets better. My wife is infantry and I hope to God she never has to see combat.

Yeah, but in this case, there was an apparent evolving credible threat on his life and his security detail probably told him to keep the interview brief and then move.

I imagine his (new) secret service detail is a little jumpy after that whole incident in Pennsylvania.

Watch the video in the other link. He was just talking and trying to get out of the conversation.

No it doesn’t. He was calm and collected and posturing.

Thank you for linking to the vid!

Sounds like he was just being an asshole and wanting to end the interview which the reported kept extending with questions. Seems like this is non-news.

Thanks. What a shitty news article to not even provide the video (yet still include a completely unrelated random video at the top of the page anyway).

Glad you posted the clip instead of Newsweek's bond music video.

The only thing the clip really shows is that RFK Jr was meant to be a Biden spoiler. Florida politicians have a history of using this tactic. However, Kennedy was only stealing Trump votes. Now the rapists are joining forces like usual.

Just seemed like he was “done” with the interview and used the introduced topic of assassination/security as a way to force an exit.

I don’t think anything has changed for him.

My take is he just didn't want to answer anymore questions. Probably not planned in advance, he was just making an excuse to get out of there.

It's hilarious that's his best strategy.

It’s so much cooler and more presidential to stand in a glass box and talk about how safe guns are for everyone though

But you know what’s also unfortunately normal? Being shot at in the US.

Oh, fuck off. Even if it did happen to "hundreds of thousands" of Americans, it wouldn't be "normal". The US has 340 MILLION people in it.

But yeah, "hundreds of thousands" is bullshit it's not even close to one hundred thousand, less than half that actually, about 43k last year: https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2024/02/nearly-43000-people-died-from-gun-violence-in-2023-how-to-tell-the-story/

Something that happens to 1% of 1% of the population isn't "normal".

Yeah, also when ever he said ''a lot of people don't know this'' he means ''I just learned this a few days ago'' and ''a lot of people are saying'' means ''This is just my opinion''. On the bizarre side of things, ''bigly'' is actually a real word in the English language and he would be using it grammatically correct most times he says it IF that was what he's actually saying, but he not, he's trying to say ''big leauge'' and is almost always using it incorrectly.

I'm old enough to remember when Newsweek was credible and respected. I understand the Magazine business model is brutal, but these days you're more likely to run into someone who's owned Newsweek than someone who subscribes to it.

Didn't seem any worse to me than most news sites, but maybe you don't use adblock...?

I agree that tightened security across the board is smart. But I'm a little skeptical that the set of a tv show was actually all that dangerous and that he was actually told what he claims.

Yes. It is and has been illegal.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-1532-threats-against-former-presidents-and-certain-other-secret

I agree we need to make sure it doesn't happen again.

But, specifically what law(s) would you enact to stop this from happening and how would it fix it so this can't happen again?