President Donald Trump may have lost part of an ear in the first of two recent assassination attempts, but he hasn't lost his sense of humor.
Cable talk show host Greg Gutfeld asked On Wednesday, the president asked, “Mr. T, how's your golf game going?”
“Well, I haven't really thought about it lately. I've always said golf is a very dangerous sport,” Trump replied.
Just a few days ago, Democratic donors and Unhealthy Interests One former Ukrainian military officer who fought in the Ukraine war reportedly camped out with a rifle at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, for 12 hours with the goal of assassinating Kamala Harris's opponent.
“Do we have a choice?”
President Trump praised the work of U.S. Secret Service agents who identified the shooter and highlighted the heroism of the woman who tracked down the suspected assassin, Ryan Routh, and provided the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office with information they needed to track him down.
“How clever! Who would do something like that? She saw somebody driving by and she didn't like the way it looked. It seemed really suspicious. So she followed the guy, took his car, parked it right behind him and started taking pictures of the license plate,” Trump said. “She's a total heroine.”
Gutfeld specifically asked the president how he was able to handle these attacks without succumbing to anger.
“What are my options?” Trump said. “What do I do?”
Trump acknowledged that his job is dangerous, made even more dangerous by his relative influence.
“I've been thinking about it all this time, since Butler,” Trump said, referring to the deadly shooting at a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13. “Being president is a very dangerous job. Being a race car driver is a dangerous job. It's like one in 10 percent of you die. Bull riders… Bull riding That seems pretty scary, right? It's a little bit higher than a dice roll. For the president, it's probably around 6 or 7 percent. It's the most dangerous job.”
Of the 46 presidents who have taken the oath of office, Eight people died during the administrationFour of the eight were assassinated: Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy. Other presidents, including Andrew Jackson and Ronald Reagan, were also targeted but survived. Theodore Roosevelt was wounded in an assassination attempt, but only after he had left office.
Trump suggested that if there was an upside to the attacks on him, it was that he was in good company, saying: “It's always an important president that gets attacked.”
The president reiterated that he owes his continued existence to God, noting that the recent attacks have given him more time to think about the Almighty.
“I don't know if the country is ready for that.”
While the interview was peppered with humor, as the pair spoke about the lies and inflammatory rhetoric used by Democrats and their media allies, Trump got very serious about drug traffickers.
Gutfeld's panelist, George “Tyrus” Murdoch, grilled Trump toward the end of the show: “If you were president, would you consider classifying the importation of fentanyl as a terrorist act? Because if you classify it as a terrorist act, the Department of Defense can step in. You can give law enforcement a reprieve. … I mean, you could send them pictures of the mansions of Mexican generals.”
Murdoch was referring to allegations that during withdrawal negotiations, Trump showed Taliban officials satellite images of their homes and threatened to kill them if they harmed any Americans.
President Trump has suggested he is fed up with a well-intentioned but completely ineffective committee tasked with discussing the issue of fentanyl trafficking.
“It's ridiculous,” Trump said. “They don't even want to talk about it. They talk about it for two minutes and then they start talking about society.”
“The only way to stop this is to put the death penalty on drug dealers,” Trump continued. “I don't know if this country is ready for that, but if you think about it, that's an average of 500 people killed for every drug dealer.”
Trump Recommendation The policy has been in place for years, but leftists have been outraged, arguing that doing so violates international human rights law. Now it's been included in his 2024 policy, state:
President Trump will defeat the drug cartels the same way he defeated ISIS. He will impose a total naval embargo on the drug cartels, order the Department of Defense to strike maximum damage against the cartels' leaders and operations, designate the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, and cut off their access to the international financial system. … He will ask Congress to ensure that drug smugglers and traffickers are subject to the death penalty. With President Trump back in the White House, drug lords and violent traffickers will never sleep peacefully again.
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