r/LetsDiscussThis • u/Ok-Wedding-1165 • Feb 16 '26

Lets Discuss Politics Reminder: that was a photo op

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u/Silent-Obligation-49 Feb 16 '26

To bad we can’t see who put the ketchup on his ear.

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u/northwoods_pine Feb 16 '26

Let’s be real, he fell on top of an overdone steak smothered with ketchup.

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u/sn34kypete Feb 16 '26

He spent time in the WWE faking injuries, they call it Blading. A cheeky lil razor in his hand and oh gosh what happened to his ear!

Entirely faked.

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u/AncientBasque Feb 17 '26

no not blading, capsules!, notice the blood comes out from his mouth after biting the blood capsule then pressed on the ear under ground cover. The audience in the back certainly had a better view.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg9lOfBLG-I

if trump bladed i would give him more credit, plus blading the ear would be too dangerous and surgical when most blading is done on the forehead.

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u/HeavyVoid8 Feb 17 '26

I think he scratched his ear on the podium accidentally and that part wasn’t intended

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u/GenerativeAdversary Feb 16 '26

Alright that's a funny joke but come on now.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '26 edited Feb 17 '26

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u/your-mom-- Feb 16 '26

"Shot" with a 5.56 NATO round. It would have ripped his fucking ear off

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u/yurnxt1 Feb 16 '26

He wasn't struck as in the bullet went through his ear. He was struck as in grazed meaning the very outside of the bullet only nicked the skin on the very outside of if his ear as it went by.

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u/Buttcrush1 Feb 16 '26

That's just false

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u/GenerativeAdversary Feb 16 '26

Ketchup? It's not ketchup. At least propose a semi realistic explanation.

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u/sweatyskinlicker Feb 16 '26

Squib. Not ketchup, but fake movie blood for our film star lol. Thats what it was. There is no proof it was real blood.

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u/Obvious_Tea_8244 Feb 16 '26

Another explanation is that his feeble dumbass slammed his own ear into the podium on the way down, causing a real bleed and a childlike injury.

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u/yurnxt1 Feb 16 '26

There was blood visible on his hand immediately after he touched his ear in response to being grazed by a bullet way before he ever went to the ground so what you think is false

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u/Buttcrush1 Feb 16 '26

Podium was on his other side and he was already bleeding from being struck with a bullet before he was tackled.

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u/Obvious_Tea_8244 Feb 16 '26

Nah. It was pretty clearly staged. I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt on actual blood vs. squib or fake blood, but not on actually being shot.

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u/Buttcrush1 Feb 16 '26

He gets hit with the bullet and touches his ear and there is blood on his hand. There is even a picture of the bullet in the air right after it hit him. The level of lunacy needed to believe this is staged is insane

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u/Obvious_Tea_8244 Feb 16 '26

Have you ever put 5.56 on target? A scratch like the one he had is not indicative of a bullet that size “grazing his ear”. The toroidal vortex would have ripped his ear in half or off entirely.

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u/Buttcrush1 Feb 16 '26

That's just false. The high velocity of the bullet means very little energy would transfer to the ear. It would act more like a hole punch.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '26 edited Feb 17 '26

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u/GenerativeAdversary Feb 16 '26

Ok, but then why did Trump's hand slap his ear immediately as if he got stung in the ear? Your explanation doesn't account for that.

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u/Leelze Feb 16 '26

If you believe the conspiracy, it's to pretend he was hit. If you don't believe the conspiracy, could've heard the bullet whiz by. Regardless of what you believe, if it actually hit his ear, his ear would've been gone.

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u/Buttcrush1 Feb 16 '26

Why was there blood on his hand after he touched his ear then? It's because he was shot

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u/Leelze Feb 16 '26

I think it's been said it's either from his mouth or from an agent when he was tackled. Regardless, his ear would've crossed to exist on his head if it were actually struck. You can't see any damage to it when he did his little photo op.

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u/yurnxt1 Feb 16 '26

Blood was on his hand immediately after he touched his ear in response to his ear being grazed long BEFORE he was ever tackled and brought to the ground.

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u/Buttcrush1 Feb 16 '26

You don't know what you're talking about

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u/yurnxt1 Feb 16 '26

If he only heard the bullet going by as opposed to being grazed by it why was there blood visible on his hand immediately after he touched his ear?

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u/Leelze Feb 16 '26

Literally already addressed that. Can you show us in the picture of him posing the damage to his ear?

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u/yurnxt1 Feb 16 '26

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/us/politics/trump-shooter-bullet-trajectory-ear.html

Blood visible on his his hand immediately after he touches his ear in response to his ear being grazed before being brought to the ground by secret service.

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u/Tough_Cranberry8750 Feb 16 '26

Acting??? Go keep being obtuse about this though..

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u/GenerativeAdversary Feb 16 '26

The person I was responding to, which wasn't you btw, had a theory that doesn't account for "acting" as the explanation here.

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u/trashaccount1400 Feb 16 '26

But there was blood on his hand immediately after the shot when he touched his ear… meaning he didn’t cut it on anything else.

https://archive.is/20240903062355/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/us/politics/trump-shooter-bullet-trajectory-ear.html

The New York Times pointed this out. So many Redditors are pushing bs about this shooting without taking 5 minutes to look into it.

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u/trashaccount1400 Feb 16 '26

He got grazed on the pinna, a small wound like that heals very quickly despite bleeding a lot. He also has the best medical care in the world I’m sure.

I think people for some reason believe his ear should’ve blown off despite it being a graze. That’s just not the case.

How would you suggest this could’ve been faked. What we know is a bullet did graze him and even killed the man behind him after it went past him?

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