If Trump ducked, the press would have had a field day with it. We’d have variations of “Trump’s a Coward” all over the headlines. I remember reading a novel a long time ago in which a presidential candidate was disgraced due to gunfire at a campaign event in which he supposedly took cover behind a child or something like that. I forget the name of that book but pretty sure it was written by Stephen King.
‘Dead Zone’ A contrived Greg Stillson moment would serve their agenda.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcZJF81jt4w