Meanwhile, Harris has aggresively hit the campaign trail, hoping to fire up voters in battleground states across the country

Meanwhile, Harris has aggresively hit the campaign trail, hoping to fire up voters in battleground states across the country

On Thursday, former president Donald Trump attempted to — yet again — recalibrate his campaign, this time with a press conference at his property in Bedminster, New Jersey.

The appearance at his beloved golf course comes exactly one week after Trump tried to put the spotlight back on himself amid Vice President Kamala Harris’s surging poll numbers, with a press conference at his Florida home of Mar-a-Lago. He used the event to grumble over crowd sizes, at one point stating incorrectly that his speech before the January 6 riot at the Capitol had more attendees than Martin Luther King’s 1963 March on Washington.

It’s noteworthy that both of these “press conferences” happened at his own properties — the safest of spaces for the former president.

  • mommykinkEnglish
    22•1 month ago

    I was reading an article the other day (will try to find it) that said Trump almost 100% has PTSD after the assassination attempt. According to someone with the campaign, every night he’s just been watching and rewatching that ~10 second clip showing how close he was being killed. His speeches have gotten a lot darker in tone (even compared to how he’s always been) and as this post says, he’s not really been “out” since then.

    • Nougat
      31•1 month ago

      I think it’s more likely that he’s reliving a moment where all attention was on him.

      • @[email protected]
        11•1 month ago

        I saw this take in that thread too, and I have to say it seems to be the more plausible of the two. Someone told him that he was basically guaranteed the presidency in that moment, and now it’s all slipping away from him. He’s trying to go back to the moment where he was sure he’d won.

        Of course, it could also be trauma. Who can say? If he even knows for sure (and I personally doubt if he has that level of self awareness), he’ll take it to his grave.

    • @Thebeardedsinglemalt
      5•1 month ago

      that said Trump almost 100% has PTSD

      Send him to the VA to deal with his PTSD, see the real life nightmare all his budget cuts and slashes and how it impacts veterans the repubs claim to love.

      • mommykinkEnglish
        1•1 month ago

        Would love to, but captain bone spurs never served

    • @ccunning
      2•1 month ago

      I was reading an article the other day (will try to find it)

      If you do find it, you should share it at /c/politics and/or /c/news. It sounds interesting. I will try to remember to look back here but to be honest my memory sucks.

        • @ccunning
          3•1 month ago

          Thanks - I was hoping for something more in depth, but this certainly could be it…:

          According to Vanity Fair’s sources, another theory floating among Trump’s circle is that he is suffering from the trauma of the assassination attempt against him in July.

          “He’s been watching that seven-second clip of how close he was to getting shot right in the head—over and over and over again,” said a Republican close to the campaign. “He may actually legit have PTSD.” A campaign official confirmed that it continues to affect Trump. “He’s been through a lot,” he said.