Posted on 11/17/2025 11:59:07 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
EXCLUSIVE — In the final weeks of the 2024 presidential election, President Donald Trump was doing nonstop rallies, many of them outdoors despite an assassination attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, that left him bloodied after a bullet struck his ear.
The rallies felt more like festivals than political events, with crowds gathering hours early amid music and pageantry. Local heroes, union leaders, elected officials, and retired military officers cycled through as warm-up speakers, firing up the audience between tracks like Oliver Anthony’s “Rich Men North of Richmond,” Village People’s “YMCA,” and Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA,” Trump’s walk-out anthem.
Despite the press often missing their aspirational quality, Trump deliberately held many rallies in places most politicians never visit — including Butler, where only he and John F. Kennedy have ever campaigned. Years ago, when I asked him why he began doing these events, he shrugged and said, “Sometimes, things just work.”
On Thursday, while he was sitting behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, I asked Trump if he missed the rallies he had staged nearly 900 times over the past 10 years. He smiled, then fell quiet for a moment, a look of resignation settling in, before giving a blunt reply.
“The outdoor rallies. I love them, but I probably have to be careful. It’s hard. The indoor rallies you can do,” he says, reflecting on the final weeks last year, where he kept a grueling pace, often doing several a day.
“The last four months were perfect. No days off, no nothing. I did either rallies, sometimes they did two rallies in a day. But in the last week, I’d do four or five rallies in a day. We had rallies at 8 o’clock in...
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Given Trump’s brush with death (or rather, two brushes) by a similar leftist nutcase, I’d expect this was very personal.
Yes… it’s sad it has come to this - but it’s time to armor up and expect the worst.
I can imagine would be assassins watching “Day of the Jackal” non stop. Jackals being what they are.
The entire democrat party has put out a hit on President Trump. Their words and actions are to gin up their “crazies” to do the dirty work.
I expect more assassinations from them in the coming years as his agenda is pushed through.
Prayers for the second best president America has ever been blessed with.
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