All Hail Emperor Trump
Donald Trump has survived an assassination attempt. A blatant one caught on national television. This was not a foiled attempt where the FBI swooped in under the advice of the Secret Service.
Yesterday a man climbed an edifice with a rifle in hand, bent on ending the life of a former president, and nearly accomplished his mission. His aim might’ve been on the spot had Trump not been as animated on stage. The round that was meant to pierce Donald Trump’s head ended up taking a snip out of his right ear instead. Many of us come close to death in life but very few come this close, under these circumstances, and get to live to tell the tale.
What now? The gunman is dead. A civilian was killed. Others injured. What happens now? Where does America stand on the issue?
More pressing is the issue of what happens to Donald Trump now that he has survived an attempt at his life. More so the image people create in their minds about him? Or perhaps the image he implants in their minds?
You see, we can postulate and play the fiddle in our minds as to what would have happened had Abraham Lincoln survived his assassination. Say, what type of man would he have been had John Wilkies Booth missed that day? We can imagine that Booth would have been apprehended, tried for the attempted murder, and sentenced to life in prison. Lincoln, I assume…
