Donald Trump has been photographed descending the steps of his private jet, Trump Force One, for the first time since he was nearly shot by an assassin.
The former president was escorted by Secret Service agents onto the tarmac at Newark Liberty International Airport just after midnight, just as the would-be assassin was identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks.
“Strong and tenacious. He will never stop fighting for America,” deputy communications director Margo Martin said on X.
Trump looked solemn as he descended the stairs and waved briefly to the cameras.
He appeared to be wearing the same navy suit he had worn when a gunman slashed his right ear just hours earlier.
At least one spectator was killed in the shooting.
He was being treated at a hospital in Pennsylvania for a wound to his ear sustained when an assassin shot him at a rally Saturday night.
The shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was shot and killed by a Secret Service sniper.
