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The doctors wheeled Trump out of his room to get a CT scan for a possible concussion. The test came back clean, and Trump wanted the records.
“Can you give me a copy of these?” Trump asked a nurse. “Because I want to make sure I can show reporters that my cognitive function is 100 percent. You can’t say the same about Joe Biden.”
“We can put it on a CD for you,” the nurse said.
“OK,” he said. “We'll release that at a later date.”
I know some people with no sense of humor may read that and think Trump lacked seriousness in the moment, but come on. That's legitimately hilarious, and I figure the rule should be that if you get shot, you can react however you want. Certainly, no one can accuse the president of not keeping his eye on the ball. After all, even though he had been shot, there was still an election to win, and if anything, the stakes had only been raised. //
Biden was about to address the nation about the shooting. Trump was back in his hospital room, and there was no TV. Cheung pulled up a feed from CNN on his phone and they watched. After the president was done, Trump asked to see some of the pictures that had been taken during the attack. One, from the New York Times’s Doug Mills, showed a bullet whizzing by Trump’s head. Another, by the Associated Press’s Evan Vucci, depicted a bloodied Trump defiantly raising his fist, with the American flag behind him.
“Wow, that's iconic,” Trump said. “That's the most American picture I've ever seen.” //
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I know some people with no sense of humor may read that and think Trump lacked seriousness in the moment, but come on. That's legitimately hilarious, and I figure the rule should be that if you get shot, you can react however you want.
It's much, much more than that. Being a leader means being able to be in control in harrowing circumstances. Put another way; the definition of bravery, is being the only one in your vicinity that knows, you are scared shitless.
Leaders owe it to their troops to NOT pass on their own fears and thus make things worse for the people they are supposed to be leading, the people they are responsible for.
