‘Real Hero’: Gutfeld Savages CBS Reporter Claiming He Got PTSD From Trump Shooting Reactions

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld roasted CBS New reporter Scott MacFarlane for saying he was diagnosed with PTSD following his coverage of a Butler, Pennsylvania rally where President Donald Trump was shot in the ear.

On Friday’s Gutfeld!, Gutfeld and his guests held nothing back in mocking MacFarlane over him saying that it was Trump supporters at the rally and not the shooting itself that gave him Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

On The Chuck ToddCast with Chuck Todd, MacFarlane said the crowd at the Trump rally were blaming members of the media for the shooting and growing angry until Trump emerged with a fist in the air to the rally-goers.

“For those of us there, it was such a horror because you saw an emerging America. And it wasn’t the shooting, Chuck,” the reporter recalled. “I got diagnosed with PTSD within 48 hours. I got put on trauma leave. Not because, I think, of the shooting, but because you could — you saw it in the eyes, the reaction of the people. They were coming for us. If he didn’t jump up with his fist, they were going to come kill us.

According to MacFarlane, “dozens” of people in the crowd told members of the media it was their “fault” the president was shot.

“There was a subset — not everybody — there’s dozens of people in the crowd who started coming for us, saying, ‘You did this. This is your fault. You caused this. You killed him.’ And they’re going to beat us with their hands,” he said.

“That was CBS News’ Scott MacFarlane claiming that he got PTSD from Trumpers after the assassination attempt in Butler because they were looking at him meanly. In 24, what was it, 48 hours, 24 hours, he was diagnosed? He’s the real hero,” Gutfeld sarcastically said after watching the clip.

Comedian Joe DeVito accused MacFarlane of suffering from “main character syndrome.”

“It shows you the level of the main character syndrome that they were at a place, a man died, the guy running for president almost got his head blown off on live TV, and this guy’s like, but what about me? What about what I went through?” he said.

“It speaks to something that everybody’s kind of scared to talk about, which is the over-diagnosis of PTSD. It used to be just for people who suffered war trauma, or just violent trauma, could be rape, whatever. But now it’s like people say, ‘I have PTSD, I had a terrible boss. He gave me, oh, I was at a rally,'” Gutfeld said.

The Free Press editor Will Rahn meanwhile offered some mostly sarcastic support.

“I mean, listen, I’m a little soft on this issue, I am a millennial, I was traumatized twice on the way here,” he joked.

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