Donald Trump was accused Monday of making a solemn ceremony, where he posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to assassinated right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk, all about himself.
During his tribute to Kirk, who was fatally shot last month during an event at Utah Valley University, Trump went off-script to boast about his own skills in surviving the 2024 assassination attempt on his own life at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Trump claimed the political left had become “very violent,” possessed “the devil’s ideology” and had “rammed vehicles into federal law enforcement, fired sniper rifles at ICE agents… and me, you know?”, even though the political motives of his own attempted assassin remain unclear.
The president then added, “But I made a turn at a good time. I turned to the right. Charlie couldn’t believe it. He said, ‘How the hell did you make that turn?’ I said, ‘I don’t know.’”
The remark quickly went viral on X (formerly Twitter), where critics called it “insensitive,” “incredibly disgusting” and “insane.”
