One year after coming millimeters from a very different outcome, Trump, according to friends and aides, is still the same Trump. But they see signs, beyond being on higher alert on stage, that his brush with death did change him in some ways: He is more attentive and more grateful, they say, and speaks openly about how he believes he was saved by God to save the country and serve a second term, making him even more dug in on achieving his far-reaching agenda.
“I think it’s always in the back of his mind,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a longtime friend and ally who was in close touch with Trump after the shooting and joined him that night in New Jersey after he was treated at a Pennsylvania hospital. “He’s still a rough and tumble guy, you know. He hasn’t become a Zen Buddhist. But I think he is, I’ll say this, more appreciative. He’s more attentive to his friends,” he said, pointing to Trump sending him a message on his birthday earlier this week.
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While many who survive traumatic events try to block them from memory, Trump has instead surrounded himself with memorabilia commemorating one of the darkest episodes in modern political history. He’s decorated the White House and his golf clubs with art pieces depicting the moment after the shooting when he stood up, thrust his fist dramatically in the air and chanted, “Fight, fight, fight!”
A painting of the scene now hangs prominently in the foyer of the White House State Floor near the staircase to the president’s residence. Earlier this year, he began displaying a bronze sculpture of the tableau in the Oval Office on a side table next to the Resolute Desk.
And while he said in his speech at the Republican convention that he would only talk about what had happened once, he often shares the story of how he turned his head at just the right moment to show off his “all-time favorite chart in history” of southern border crossings that he credits for saving his life.
I know! Trump is the first president to ever place tariffs on another nation. /s Millions should be kicked off the government cheese. It is bankrupting the nation.
Your comment is a tad hysterical.
The critique here is how disorganized he is, changing tariff policy by the day, which is a notoriously stupid thing to do. The effects of this are felt in the market, the supply chain, and harm our international economic prospects as the rest of the world reconfigures the supply chain around the fact that the US is no longer a reliable trading partner. Tariffs also have a negative effect on inflation, as it constitutes a tax that is passed on to consumers.
Also, you're wrong on health care. We should be spending more, not less. We're the only major country in the world that doesn't use people's own tax dollars to provide for their health care, and it's self-evident what a bad policy that is. We 100% shouldn't be cutting health care spending just to hand tax breaks to billionaires, as billionaires are not stimulative to the economy. All they're going to do is park it in a tax haven and do nothing with it.
You think it's disorganized, but it is part of his plan. We saw this last time he was in office.
Studies have shown his tariffs did not increase inflation. So why bring up misinformation?
I am not wrong. I am right. It is costing too much money and we cannot afford it. It is bad spending.
You're right, inflation hasn't increased yet, but it will. Trump knows this, which is why he's demanding that companies simply eat the increased cost. (Link and Link)
This is the other problem with how you're trying to argue this. You're simply denying the inevitable long-term effects because they haven't yet fully materialized, but one can look at the trade deals happening outside the US to see the writing on the wall. (Link)
This is also the same reason that the negative effects of the BBB aren't scheduled to kick in until after the mid-term elections.
To take advantage of misinformed people like yourself.
As for health care, again, you're wrong. Every other major country on earth pays less and has better outcomes than we do, so monetarily and in terms of public health, what we can't afford is the disastrous public-private partnership that currently exists, because all it's accomplishing is killing people and fattening up CEO's.
We don't know if inflation will increase or not. It isn't guaranteed to raise inflation. The last time it didn't raise inflation. This time they do not appear to be driving inflation either.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/inflation-trump-tariffs/
I don't care what every other country does. That is a weird response. Other countries tax their rich less and their middle class more. Would you be happy if we did that? If not, then stop talking about different countries.
LOL
Told you so: Inflation accelerates in June as investors eye tariff-related price increases
Another proven lie by our demented president that you swallowed hook, line, and sinker. Multinational corporations aren't just going to be commanded to swallow a new tax on Donald's orders when they have shareholders to answer to.
Oh no! Less than 1/2 of 1%. The world is ending.
So now you are against taxes? I am confused, were you against tariffs when the other president did them? Or just Trump?
Yes, I am against tariffs, because we can look at history and observe that they are a stupid policy.
I'm particularly opposed to Trump's method of tariff policy, because it's chaotic, undisciplined, and doesn't function within the safeguards outlined by federal law. It's actually illegal for a president to declare tariffs, but Congress is controlled by Republicans who are resolute in their opinion that Donald will be allowed to rule by fiat.
In 12-18 months when the new international trade deals materialize that undercut US trade, I wonder if you will finally stop making excuses for this demented man.
It isn't illegal. Congress delegated tariffs to the president many years ago. To me this should be a job of Congress and Congress shouldn't be able to delegate its duties, but it isn't illegal
I get that, but it's a stupid notion, especially when we can observe that every other major country pays less for health care and gets better health outcomes. It costs less to fly to Europe and get an MRI than it does to drive to the doctor up the street and get one here in the US. In most countries medical bankruptcy doesn't even exist.
It's absolutely silly that you think it's a good thing that we do health care differently than the rest of the world. Taking pride in doing things differently than the rest of the world, and also in a way that's observably stupid, is unreasonable.
LOLOLOLOLOL, now you're just being absurd. Every other major country provides far more to the middle class for the taxes they pay, whereas here in the US, we don't adequately tax the wealthy AND do not provide value to taxpayers for the taxes they pay. In return for our generosity we get a few hundred billionaires and war in seven countries at once.
I guess you have GoFundMe when you can't afford your insulin, so there's that.
It cost 25 dollars to get an mri. What a hospital charges isn’t what you pay. You pay what the final bill states.
That is false. So easy to prove you wrong and maybe educate you a bit on the topic of taxes
https://manhattan.institute/article/correcting-the-top-10-tax-myths
In reality, these European tax systems do not fit the American progressive image because their higher revenues are overwhelmingly raised through steep income, payroll, and consumption taxes on the middle class.
Moreover, top rates imposed on corporations and wealthy families in the U.S. often exceed OECD averages