Trump Critics Bash Him for Chuckling About His Own Shooting at Slain Pal Charlie Kirk’s Medal Ceremony
Critics torched President Donald Trump over a quip about his own shooting as he honored slain activist and friend Charlie Kirk, who was killed by an assassin’s bullet.
On Tuesday, the President spoke at a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, awarding Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom, during which he riffed about the gunshot wound that he survived. With a chuckle, he noted that Kirk was stunned at Trump’s good fortune:
They have the devil’s ideology and they’re failing and they know it. They feel it and they become violent. They seem to become very violent on the left.
They’ve rammed vehicles into federal law enforcement, fired sniper rifles at ICE agents– and me.
You know, I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. I turned to the right.
Charlie couldn’t believe it. Actually, he said, “How the hell did you make that turn?”
I said, “I don’t know.”
That passage went viral when video influencers shared it on X/Twitter, and Trump critics piled on at what they saw as an insensitive reference. Some even unkindly interpreted it as a backhanded shot at Kirk. Video influencer Aaron Rupar amplified many of the responses.
The “Blue Georgia” account wrote, “Insane. He’s bragging about not being murdered at a ceremony honoring a guy who was murdered.”
In one top post, Jordan Uhl wrote, “Took him just over a month” over a screenshot dated Sept. 1o that read “unfortunately none of your tweets will be as funny as when trump inevitably insinuates he’s more manly for surviving a gunshot.”
Keith Olbermann wrote “Donald John Trump has always been one awful, sick, pseudo-human. He has somehow gotten worse. He has somehow said the worst thing anybody has said about the indefensible killing of Kirk.”
Some other popular responses:
- @Timodc: Marco Rubio might need to denaturalize the president for anti-Kirk speech
- @malonebarry: This is amazing. Trump is bragging about his ability to survive an assassination attempt at a memorial for someone who was assassinated.
- @camkasky: I don’t think anybody has trolled Charlie Kirk’s murder harder than Trump has. He is having a ball
- @HeerJeet: i think what Trump is saying here is: “I like assassination targets who know how to dodge”
- @RoseBensonDC: “I’m better at turning than Charlie.” Awful.
- @ClueHeywood: Right wingers spent weeks on here policing whether you talked about Charlie Kirk correctly and a month later Trump is at an event with Kirk’s widow like “I’m better at dodging bullets”
- @robrousseau: I simply dodged my assassination unlike certain other low-agility jabronies
- @subtoconnorpls: kinda beast mode can’t lie
- @AntiToxicPeople: I am no Charlie Kirk fan but this is so incredibly disgusting, even for Trump. He continually proves he is an unfeeling sociopath incapable of even pretending to have even a semblance of normal human feeling or a single shred of sensitivity.
- @scrimV1: Imagine your “friend” at your memorial is flexing about how he dodged a bullet and you didn’t ☠️☠️☠️
- @ChiefTeef8: Bro said “skill issue” at the charlie kirk memorial
Watch above via The White House.
