On July 13th, 2024, a supposed lone gunman lying on an exposed roof lined up a shot on now-President Donald Trump and pulled the trigger. The Butler, PA, rally was packed with tens of thousands of people as the bullets flew through the air. Trump was struck in his ear while firefighter Corey Comperatore, who was situated behind the podium, was killed. Two others were injured. 

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After he was hit, the president pushed through a shroud of Secret Service agents to thrust his fist into the air, shouting "fight, fight, fight." We didn't know it at the time, but that moment probably ended the 2024 presidential election. 

What hasn't previously been revealed, though, is what happened afterward. Trump was immediately rushed to the hospital to undergo treatment and a series of tests, and a new report is shedding light on his mindset. In what may be one of the funniest things I've ever seen, the president was still dunking on Joe Biden after nearly losing his life. 

Trump, after getting shot and being sent to the hospital, was still dunking on Joe Biden.

Simply incredible. pic.twitter.com/cPCViGB2kW

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) March 6, 2025

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. 

I'm still laughing at the nurse saying, "We can put it on a CD for you." 

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.”

Trump was politically astute to know what had just transpired. Democrats had been going after him for years, with a clear goal to jail him before voters went to the polls. Now, he had narrowly escaped death, avoiding an assassin's bullet by milliseconds, having turned his head at the last moment. The reality of the situation was undeniable, and it rightly became a political rallying cry. People were trying to stop Trump at all costs, and he would not back down. 

The rest is history.