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In his prepared remarks after the incident, Trump brought up past assassination targets in history and said it was almost an honor to be a target like them because of how many important actions they take that must affect people's live so much that someone tries to kill them. He went on to say something like, nobody tries to assassinate boring leaders so he must be so impressive that he should be a target. What a self-aggrandizing moron. He can't imagine that some people may wish him dead because they loathe him for all the harm and destruction he causes.
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Transcript of Trump's above remarks taken from C-Span:
"Well, you know, I've studied assassinations. And I must tell you, the most impactful people, the people that do the most, you take a look at the people, Abraham Lincoln, I mean, you go through the people that have gone through this, where they got him. But the people that do the most, the people that make The biggest impact, they're the ones that they go after. They don't go after the ones that don't do much because they like it that way. And when you look at the people that have Either whether it was an attempt or a successful attempt, and they're very impactful people. Just take a look at the names here. The big names and I hate to say I'm honored by that, but I've done a lot. We've done a lot. We have, we've taken this country and we were a laughingstock for years and now we're the hottest country anywhere in the world. We've changed this country. And there are a lot of people that are not happy about that."