"Donald Trump rushed away by security after an aggressive ear-piercing." - the media somewhere, probably

Johannes Gutenberg would be disappointed with us.

Some twisted lunatic tried to kill Donald Trump over the weekend. Fortunately (and amazingly) he missed his main target, only grazing Trump in the ear. An innocent bystander wasn’t so fortunate and was killed.

A family man and a firefighter out to hear a speech. Gunned down for no good reason. Just awful.

It’s tempting to rail against the left-wing talking heads and op-ed scribes. They have been screaming as loudly as they can for the last eight years about the existential threat posed to America (and humanity writ large) by “the Great Orange Hitler”, Donald Trump.

Those shrieking gas-bags surely caused his lunatic to do what he did. The little idiot probably thought he was going to be a hero. Why wouldn’t he? It’s good to kill “actual Hitler”, right?

But today I’m going to focus on some of the truly awful headlines that came from left-leaning rags shortly after the shooting. Some are sick and stupid. Some are a joke. Each and every one should have Johannes Gutenberg shaking his head at us.

Here’s a few that came out right after the attack. They are designed to try to make Trump appear frail or confused or something. Anything other than the survivor of an assassination attempt.

CNN. “Trump falls.” Really?

The Washington Post. “Loud noises”

USA Today. “Loud noises”

NBC News. “Popping sounds”.

Fox 13 — Memphis. “Trump falls.” Gee. Why?

The AP — Yes, the Associated Press, for crying out loud. “Loud noises” Sheesh.

IndyStar. “Loud noises startle former president.” Yeah, I bet he was startled.

So, okay. That was the fog of war. Anybody could screw some headlines up when it’s early and not all the facts have come out, right?

Well, here’s what a few “news” outlets had to say a little while later:

The Denver Post. Does this headline tell the readers what they need to know?

The Sacramento Bee. I guess they didn’t want to bump their “main” story, but hey, Trump did have an “apparent injury” so I guess they had to squeeze an article onto the front page.

Sky News. The rules of headlines: everything before the “but” is completely insincere.

Forbes. What the hell is this?

So, thanks Johannes. That printing press you gave us a great thing. So sorry we are such complete jackasses.

Naturally,

Adam

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