No Bullet

I don't care about Megyn Kelly's rant about Scott Pelley, her profanity, or even the non-war record of Mr. Bone Spurs, Donald J. Trump. I care a great deal more about the "sacrifices" Kelly claims the President has made on behalf of the country while he has accumulated billions of dollars during his second term in office.

Yet, none of that contributed to Donald Trump now being a two-term President, unlike the "bullet (he took) for his country."  It's a myth which won't die until Trump does, and not even then if the history books are written by historians frightened to report the truth.

"How dare you begrudge Donald Trump and the sacrifices he's made. Trump literally took a bullet for this country so FUCK OFF Scott Pelley. The absolute arrogance and nerve of that asshole!"

- @megynkelly https://t.co/PL1qBgiJXC pic.twitter.com/jakix796AZ

— The Megyn Kelly Show (@MegynKellyShow) June 9, 2026

Eleven days after Matthew Crooks tried to assassinate Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024, the FBI concluded "What struck former President Trump in the ear was a bullet, whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces, fired from the deceased subject's rifle." Good thing, too, that the agency leave open the possibility tthat Trump was struck by a bullet, lest director Chris Wray's tenure not last beyond January 20, 2025 at 12:00 noon. 

Yet, as reported initially by New York magazine, journalist Olivia Nuzzi had

visited Trump's Florida estate in early August. It had been less than a month since he nearly escaped death at his Pennsylvania rally on July 13.

Like many have in recent weeks, Nuzzi appeared to fixate on Trump's injured ear and marveled at how—after a bullet buzzed right past it, leaving it bleeding—it was able to heal so quickly. She asked Trump about his injury, which left his face and ear bloodied on stage, and she reported that he responded by tapping the spot allegedly struck by a bullet fired at him by Thomas Matthew Crooks.

"The particular spot that he identified with his tap was pristine," Nuzzi wrote. "I scanned carefully the rest of the terrain. It looked normal and incredible and fine."

Nuzzi later added: "An ear had never appeared to have gone through less. Except there, on the tiniest patch of this tiny sculpture of skin, a minor distortion that resembled not a crucifixion wound but the distant aftermath of a sunburn."

We all remember Trump in Butler grabbing the right side of his head and dropping to the ground with the help of Secret service agents Secret Service agents. The Republica triumphantly rose back up with a "trail of blood streaked aginst his cheek", then triumphantly yelling "fight, fight, fight" in a dramatic scene worthy of a blockbuster Hollywood film.

And "Hollywood" is the operative term. This past March, former Minnesota govrnor and professional wrestling superstar Jesse Ventura was interviewed on Piers Morgan's "Uncensored" podcast. Morgan

said, “To be fair to Trump, when he got shot, he got back up and said, ‘Fight, fight, fight!’”

“Oh yeah, right, right, right,” Ventura responded. “You ever hear of a blade job?”

In professional wresting, a “blade job” refers to an athlete using a concealed razor blade to intentionally cut themselves to simulate a blood injury during a match.

When Morgan asked Ventura if he believed the assassination attempt was fake, the former Navy SEAL remained skeptical.

“I don’t know,” Ventura said. “Where’s his scar today? Come on, Piers, you’re gonna tell me this guy’s (Trump) a big hero now?”

Donald's WWE (and UFC) fandom is the stuff of legend- and reality. In April of last year, CT Mirror explained

Trump and several Cabinet members sat cageside at the UFC match in Miami; Trump himself holds a spot in the WWE Hall of Fame, where his official bio page notes that he’s the first WWE Hall of Famer to hold the presidency. Ahead of last weekend’s annual WrestleMania, wrestling news sites were abuzz with rumors that the president might again be ringside. At the same time, one of professional wrestling’s biggest stars, Roman Reigns, made headlines for declaring himself as a Trump supporter.

The former CEO of WWE, Vince McMahon, is a longtime friend of the president’s and financial supporter of his political endeavors; McMahon’s now-estranged wife, Linda, is also a former WWE CEO and a current member of Trump’s Cabinet. And the CEO of UFC, Dana White, introduced Trump before he spoke on the final night of last summer’s Republican National Convention — Hulk Hogan also spoke, ripping off his shirt to reveal Trump/Vance campaign merch — and attended Trump’s inauguration in January.

Trump also is a student of professional wrestling and 

The kinds of theatrics baked into the massive success of professional wrestling have been on display throughout Trump’s ascendency in American politics. On the campaign trail and now in the White House, a Trump event has a distinctive feel, a well-honed blend of spectacle, pageantry and hypermasculinity. It’s a style that feels lifted from the professional wrestling handbook, where aesthetics and narrative device choices are central to the delivery. In professional wrestling, this product is a form of entertainment that lets fans — predominantly young men — openly feel and freely celebrate masculinity. In the second Trump administration, the product is a barrage of new policy measures intent on crafting a very specific version of America where the feelings of men are prioritized and their power is irrefutable.

But that's not the half of it. Most significantly:

Central to the concept of professional wrestling is the practice of kayfabe, or committing to the illusion that clearly staged events are real and true. It’s a narrative device that asks audiences to suspend their disbelief, not in a way of passive acceptance, but rather active participation in the creation of what is possible.

 “It really does matter how well you’re doing the performance, but then what also really matters is how much the audience is going to buy into it. If they’re emotionally connected, that’s where the buy-in comes in,” said CarrieLynn Reinhard, an associate professor of communication arts and sciences at Dominican University and an expert on narrative devices in professional wrestling. “When you look at what Trump does, he is very good at getting to people’s emotions and understanding their emotions and — I’m going to say — manipulating their emotions for his own goals, and in doing so, he focuses on a reality that he believes in or at least he performs to believe in.”

President Trump could erase any doubts about being hit by a bullet were he to release the full, unredacted medical records of his care following the incident. Yet, he has not, and will not, do this.

The white Santa, white Jesus woman has conned much of the centrist and center-left media into believing that she has made a break with President Trump or MAGA because she is fed up with the Administration's war in Iran. But that is probably due to her perception that Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of the Jewish state, is pulling the strings of the President. She remains the propagandist who can actually claim Donald Trump "took a bullet for this country" and has made great "sacrifices".

President Trump is not stupid. He knows that, if he avoids disclosure of the most important details of his life and presidency, he will have the mainstream media and people such as Megyn Kellycontinue to  eat out of his hand. 

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