The Onion @midwest.social seahorse [Ohio] @midwest.social 4 days ago

Report: Trump Defiantly Pumped Fist For 20 Minutes After Assassination Attempt Searching For Camera

theonion.com Report: Trump Defiantly Pumped Fist For 20 Minutes After Assassination Attempt Searching For Camera

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Almost as if he was waiting for his next photo op...what a stupid tool

Edit: I'm a tool and didn't realize I was reading the onion I'm a stupid tool in this case...
- It's ok, i also ate the onion at least once...
  
  With news about Trump, it is also an extra deceiving onion.
- You alright, bud?
  
  Nope.. sick with COVID and didn't realize I was in the onion land I still think it's a tool but I shouldn't respond to onion articles that makes me a tool..
- Like, from just reading the headline, it doesn't seem very onion-y. It's not just perfectly believable, but I sort of assumed that that is what happened.
  
  Totally in character and would align with "staged"
I'm not sure if that's the right gesture when you're constantly agitating against socialists:
- Yes, common knowledge dictates that only socialists raise their fists, ever, because they invented the gesture
  
  The guy is a politician. Unfortunately, for obvious reasons, he cannot show the gesture of his own political camp. So he will have to make do with this symbolic loan. But it fits in quite well with his election campaign, especially as he strangely portrays his opponents as fascists.
- We're the Mario Brothers....
Damnit I ate the onion 😔. I have brought great shame to my family
- No shame in 2024. Onion and real world are 100% blur now.
Didn't even click to read the satire.

As much as I hate the guy it was marketing genius to do the fist pump immediately.

Same as his mug shot (although he probably practiced that one for hours in a mirror).

Many of his core followers are only semi-literate. They respond to iconic imagery.
- he didn't do the fist pump immediately.
  
  it was like 10 minutes later, you fell for the propaganda.
  
  I see now that the photo is from the golf course not the speech. That he posed for that one shows once again how media savvy he is.
  
  The first assassination attempt created the iconic image. That happened only 80 seconds after the shooting, ie as soon as security let him stand up. Here is the uncut footage.
  
  Is there uncut footage online? I can't find any and Mother Jones (a left wing publication) doesn't support your assertion.

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