Posted on 04/27/2026 7:51:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Political violence in America is on the up but the targeting of Trump tells its own tale. No American leader in modern history has been as polarising: hated and adored in equal measure. Trump has contributed to this state of affairs by using insult, threats and contempt as a weapon in his daily rhetoric. His political opponents are right to suggest he has degraded and coarsened public discourse, and to call him out on his frequent derogatory remarks aimed at anyone who dares to oppose him. But what they fail to acknowledge is that the disgust and outrage they aim at him, the hyperbole they use when criticising his motives and actions, is a problem in itself and does nothing to help calm matters at this politically volatile time.
“I can’t imagine that there’s any profession that is more dangerous,” Donald Trump told reporters just hours after the shooting incident at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in Washington DC. This is true enough. Violence against US presidents is, unfortunately, nothing new. Everyone knows this long and bloody history all too well. It includes the killing of John F Kennedy in Dallas in 1963; the two assassination attempts within days of each other on President Gerald Ford in 1975; and the attempt on Ronald Reagan’s life, when he was shot and seriously wounded at the Washington Hilton hotel – the same venue at which Saturday’s attempted shooting took place – in 1981. Even so, Trump stands out for the growing number of attempts on his life.
There was the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July, 2024, when a bullet grazed his ear. Trump was rushed off stage to his motorcade, with blood on his right ear and across his cheek. He pumped his fist and shouted “Fight!” to the crowd before being taken to safety.
A second incident took place just weeks later, in September 2024, at Trump’s golf course at West Palm Beach in Florida. Law enforcement officials found a rifle and other equipment in the foliage near the course. Ryan Wesley Routh was sentenced to life imprisonment for attempted assassination. In February this year, the Secret Service shot and killed Austin Tucker Martin, an armed man who breached the security perimeter at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump and his wife Melania were in Washington at the time.
If anything, many of Trump’s critics are guilty of lashing out at him in terms as extreme as anything he might say about them. Civility, compassion and tolerance (a set of virtues high on the agenda of many Trump opponents) are values that cannot and must not be applied in dealings with the president. Many public figures, including political opponents as well as celebrities and film stars, appear to get off on calling Trump a fascist, the most dangerous person in the country, and so forth, basically arguing that “something must be done” before he trashes basic rights and freedoms.
I am no supporter of Trump and what he stands for politically – but do his critics ever wonder about their own heated rhetoric and the dangers of making Trump out to be evil personified? Might they, just possibly, be part of the wider problem, whereby far too many political disagreements between people in opposite camps end up carry menacing undertones?
I am not for a moment suggesting that Trump’s critics bear responsibility for the growing violence directed at him, including this latest attempt on his life. That would be absurd and wrong. But there is a case for saying that their own “Trump derangement syndrome” is doing little to lower the political temperature. This forms the ugly backdrop to a wider picture of growing political violence in America.
There was the killing in Utah last year of Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and commentator. A few months earlier, Minnesota State representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were shot and killed. In 2022, the former House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul was attacked with a hammer and hospitalised with a fractured skull. It is high time for Trump critics and supporters alike to lower the dial. The latest attempt on the president’s life demonstrates all too clearly the real world consequences of these ugly divisions.
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“Bitter clingers”
“Vast Right Wing Conspiracy”
1. Joe Biden (2022) – “Semi-fascism” remark
Biden described parts of the Republican movement aligned with Donald Trump as “semi-fascist.” The comment drew strong backlash from Republicans, who saw it as an extreme characterization of their voters and ideology.
2. Hillary Clinton (2016) – “Basket of deplorables”
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Clinton said that “half” of Donald Trump’s supporters belonged in a “basket of deplorables,” citing racism, sexism, and other behaviors. This became one of the most controversial and politically damaging lines of that election cycle.
3. Barack Obama (2008) – “Clinging to guns or religion”
While speaking at a fundraiser, Obama said that some working-class voters “cling to guns or religion” out of frustration. Conservatives criticized the remark as elitist and dismissive of their values.
4. Nancy Pelosi (multiple occasions)
Pelosi has made several pointed remarks over the years, including calling certain Republican positions “cruel” or “immoral,” and at times describing GOP policies as dangerous to democracy. While less of a single quote, her rhetoric has often been blunt and confrontational.
5. Chuck Schumer (2020) – Supreme Court comments
At a rally, Schumer warned conservative Supreme Court justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh they would “pay the price” for certain rulings. Critics argued the language was inappropriate or threatening; Schumer later clarified he meant political consequences.
6. Maxine Waters (2018) – “Get in their face”
Waters encouraged supporters to publicly confront Trump administration officials, saying, “If you see anybody… you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them.” Republicans condemned the statement as encouraging harassment.
7. Joe Biden (campaign rhetoric over time)
Biden has also used terms like “extremists” or “threats to democracy” to describe certain Republican factions, particularly those tied to election denialism or January 6.
This icky ball is a j-wad.
THIS DIPWAD NEEDS TO RETURN TO HIT OWN COUNTRY-—YESTERDAY
Jawad Iqbal, the author is a deceiver.
I will make that statement explicitly. (Some of) Trump's critics are responsible for the growing violence against Trump. The plausible deniability of their position has evaporated.
There is no shortage of crazy people who take inspiration from the violent rhetoric and lies offered by the Democrats and their various Leftist allies. They are easily recruited for violent actions as "Lone Wolves" and the critics know this very well.
“No American leader in modern history has been as polarising: hated and adored in equal measure.”
Oh please, had not Hussein, Cankles, Xiden and that ilk going back had not been criminal President Trump would have never been elected. Three times.
The left knows exactly what they’re doing, J-wad. They’re engaging in a color revolution to overthrow the country.
I’m betting you’re well aware of that and doing your part to support it.
This is at least the third attempt to murder president Trump, yet no one has been held accountable, why?
Exactly what should be done in terms of accountability?
The would be assassination in Butler PA was shot and killed.
The guy who was hiding at Mar A Lago, waiting to take a shot, is in prison.
This guy from the correspondence dinner is currently in jail.
Maybe I’m missing something in terms of people being held accountable. Are you trying to say others were involved in bigger plots and none of them were held accountable, and that these guys are simply the fall guys for bigger conspiracies?
3. Barack Obama (2008) – “Clinging to guns or religion”
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Well, I don’t see that sentence as something insulting.
There is nothing wrong in clinging to guns and religion.
Every time I see or hear that quote, I go buy more guns 'n ammo.
I don't want to run out when someone says "Praise the Lord 'n pass the ammo!"
Author: “ I am not for a moment suggesting that Trump’s critics bear responsibility for the growing violence directed at him, including this latest attempt on his life. That would be absurd and wrong. ”
Well then you are an idiot and part of the violence problem.
Any Republican president who comes after Trump is going to get exactly the same treatment.
Quit trolling.
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