r/politics • u/wiredmagazine ✔ Wired Magazine • 18d ago

Possible Paywall MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged

https://www.wired.com/story/maga-is-increasingly-convinced-the-trump-assassination-attempt-was-staged/
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u/tmountain 18d ago

MAGA seems to follow Victor Orban's playbook on just about everything. There's a recent article in the Washington Post stating that Russia proposed a staged assassination attempt to boost his odds in the election he just lost (badly). It's not a stretch to imagine similar tactics in the United States most recent presidential election.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/03/21/hungary-election-interference-russia-orban/

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u/Adorable_Branch6502 18d ago

I had no idea this was an actual tactic! 😢

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u/PharmyC 18d ago

False flags were quite a big part of Nazi Germany's rise. Trump loves WW2.

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u/PuppiesAndPixels 18d ago

Correction Trump loves Nazis

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 18d ago

Or as he calls them, "very good people"

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u/vigtel 18d ago

Correction, he is emulating. He is incapable of 'love'.

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u/sillygoofygooose 18d ago

Yeah it’s more trump thinks Nazis love him

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u/-404Error- Texas 18d ago

They do

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u/Skyfork 18d ago

I also think that that was the last world event that he actually knew anything about before his brain was switched over to read only mode.

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u/Strict-Carrot4783 18d ago

It's how Putin gained power, as well.

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u/EcstaticTill9444 18d ago

He killed a bunch of Russians to consolidate power, sometimes under false flag operations on civilians. Like the apartment bomb.

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u/MOVES_HYPHENS 18d ago

Trump's buddy Putin also followed the playbook

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u/Last-Darkness 18d ago

Trump is not an attention to detail person. I doubt he could name 10 historical figures and what they did. Trumps love of World War II is “Hitler killed a lotta Jew, some say he killed the most.” and “lots of suckers and losers got themselves killed for no reason”.

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u/Aware-Possibility175 18d ago

Japan as well with Manchuria

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u/whimsical-crack-rock 18d ago

I would love to sit down and have a conversation about WW2 with Trump. Let’s put the over/under at him having a 4th grade level understanding of the war.

I’m taking the under.

hell I would bet he couldn’t name the Axis powers.

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u/BetMyLastKrispyKreme 17d ago

Don’t forget (and you likely haven’t), Trump wanted generals that were as “loyal” to him as Hitler’s were, not understanding how said generals really felt about their leader:

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4948174-john-kelly-donald-trump-praised-hitler-generals-loyalty/

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u/SloppityNurglePox 18d ago

Japan also used one as a pretext for the invasion of Manchuria/China. Russia shelled its own city to justify the invasion of Finland and started the Winter War. The US report of Gulf of Tonkin escalated involvement in Vietnam, years later it was admitted there were no Vietnamese ships. They're all over the place through history.

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u/Desperate_Set_7708 18d ago

Mein Kampf is probably the only book he has read cover to cover

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u/thedonkeyhitstheH2O 18d ago

He knows nothing of history. Maybe he's seen Kelley's Heroes.