By Press TV Website Staff
At a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, days ahead of his confirmation as the Republican presidential nominee for the third time, Donald Trump survived what appeared to be an assassination bid.
A barrage of gunshots was heard, which followed scenes of panic and commotion in the crowd and the former U.S. president with his bloodied face being surrounded by Secret Service.
“I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin," Trump wrote on his social media site after the incident that became the new fodder for mainstream media.
Social media has since been abuzz with netizens commenting on the apparent assassination attempt on Trump and comparing it with what Trump himself and other U.S. presidents have done for years.
Many have also pointed to the U.S.-backed genocidal war on Gaza, given that the attack on Trump came barely hours after the latest massacre in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis city.
Dan Dohen, a journalist and filmmaker, in a post on X, formerly Twitter, reminded people of what Trump did as the American president, including ordering the assassination of Iran’s top anti-terror commander General Qassem Soleimani in January 2020.
“As president, Trump was mostly faithful to the permanent war uniparty's agenda. He ordered the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, sanctioned Russia, sent lethal weapons to Ukraine and escalated the cold war with China,” Cohen wrote.
“The U.S. has no problem assassinating foreign political figures deemed a threat to its agenda. Only the most naïve and ignorant people think that can't happen at home.”
Elijah Magnier, a veteran journalist, also took to his X handle to draw a parallel between what happened to Trump on Saturday and what Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have to endure every day.
“Donald Trump got a bullet through his right ear, and the shooter was killed, and the world was hit by a tsunami,” Magnier wrote.
“The Palestinians get thousands of bullets every day, and the shooters are free, supported by the West, and the world doesn't move an inch.”
Sarah, a prominent social media influencer, had a telling take on the incident related to Trump. “Mass media is more concerned about Trump being shot in the ear than the 400+ Palestinian civilians murdered and maimed by Israel in Gaza today,” she wrote on her X handle.
“Tells you everything you need to know.”
Denijal Jegic, a Lebanese academic and researcher, in a post on X also called out the double standards of the “collective West” vis a vis Trump incident and the genocide in Gaza.
“The collective West is expressing “thoughts,” “shock” and beautiful wishes to Trump while continuing to massacre more than 180,000 Palestinians in Gaza. Also no contradiction here,” he wrote, sharing screenshots of tweets by top world leaders over the Trump shooting.
Chen Weihua, a Chinese journalist and China Daily EU reporter expressed “shock” over EU leaders responding “more swiftly and strongly” to the assassination attempt on Trump than “mass killings of Palestinians in Gaza.”
Eva Karene Bartlett, a writer and activist, said the incident involving the former US president has gotten and will continue to get more media coverage and outrage than nearly 300 days of genocide in Gaza.
“I would add. You reap what you sow. Any chaos in the US that may ensue is what the US successive regimes and deep state have fomented globally for almost 200 years of savage neocolonialism that has slaughtered millions,” she wrote.
Lebanese journalist for The Cradle, Sharmine Narwine, said it’s “amusing” to hear Americans “express outrage over assassinations” in response to the news about Trump’s assassination bid.
Pertinently, it came hours after close to 100 Palestinians were killed in a missile strike that targeted an area crowded with more than 80,000 displaced people in Khan Younis city.
Almost 38,500 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli-American genocidal war against Palestinians in the besieged Palestinian territory over the past nine months.
