Third assassination attempt against Donald Trump. Cartoon of 28/04/2026 in CTXT.
Translation of the cartoon: "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot someone… and I wouldn't even have time to pull out my gun"
Well, the orange character was once again close to a guy who very possibly wanted to kill him. This is the third attempt to assassinate him in the last two years. Since 1865, every fourth president of the United States has suffered an assassination attempt, and four of them ended up dead, but Trump has now become the president of Yanquiland with the most assassination attempts.
In July 2024, at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, he was shot in the ear by a sniper, and in September of the same year, secret services nabbed another sniper armed with an AK-47 and hiding in the bushes of a golf course in Palm Beach, Florida, where Trump was staying, near his Mar-a-Lago shack.
After the shooting at the Washington Hilton Hotel, from which he collapsed when secret service agents tried to take him away, the cynical Trump said in an appearance that things have to be solved peacefully, talking and so on. Yes, the same man who kidnapped the president of Venezuela and assassinated the supreme leader of Iran, as well as thousands of people in different countries, talks about the peaceful way as if he were Mahatma Gandhi.
The media have treated the third assassination attempt as something almost exceptional or unexpected, when the United States is the country in the world with more guns than inhabitants and most of them are in the hands of civilians. With such a flood of weapons of all kinds, it is a rare day when someone is not killed with a pipe, shotgun or rifle. Just take a look at Gun Violence Archive to see how the number of deaths involving a gun is growing.
"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose a single vote, OK? It's unbelievable.
This reflection of Trump's lout in January 2016, referring to the polls, was just one of the many stupid things he had spouted and would continue to spout. The worst thing is that he was right, but only about his brainless voters because it is more than clear that there is a good number of people in his country who would not hesitate to blow his brains out or who would not mind if someone else did.
If, today, Trump tried to shoot someone on Fifth Avenue, any countryman would kill him in a matter of seconds.
Donald, iron fist and glass jaw, made several jokes about the dangers of being president to get the nice boys in the press to laugh at him, but shortly afterwards he called for Jimmy Kimmel to be fired from ABC and Disney and even ordered "a review of his licences" for a parody of the correspondents' dinner that Tump linked to the attack, even though it was broadcast two days before the event.
Melania and Donald took great offence and again called for the comedian's head for allusions to Donald Trump's past and his relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and for citing Melania Trump as a first lady who "glows like an impatient widow". Kimmel had to clarify that it was just a joke about the age difference between the two.
