In a recent television exchange, former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson asked former President Donald Trump about a serious matter.
“I don’t think there’s ever been a more controversial president than you,” began Carlson. “Do you think they’re going to kill you?”
Carlson added: “Are you worried that they’re going to try and kill you? Why wouldn’t they try and kill you?”
The Daily Caller reported the question follows recent reports of an Illinois woman recently threatening to shoot the former president and his son Barron.
CNN reported that Trump was the target of an assassination attempt on June 18, 2016, when a mentally disturbed British national attempted to take a police officer’s gun to shoot the then-presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
Michael Steven Sandford was later sentenced to a year and a day in prison.
Responding to Tucker’s question, Trump said, “Don’t laugh. Actually, a friend of mine said, ‘You have to be the most honest person in the world to run for president or the most dishonest person in the world because if you’re somewhere on the spectrum in the middle, they’re going to kill you.”
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The former president noted that those who advocate violence against people with different political, ideological, or religious views are “savage animals … people that are sick.”
Trump’s response was both assertive and laden with an almost melancholic acceptance. While many would consider the proposition too outrageous to be given serious thought, the nation’s 45th president entertained it with gravity.
Trump continued to unravel his thoughts on the matter, making it clear that the situation wasn’t about him per se. “They hate me more than they love the country,” he declared. “If something were to happen, they would be celebrating like you wouldn’t believe.”
Trump’s assertion that his detractors would be jubilant in the face of his demise — whether metaphorical or physical — is a scathing commentary on the divisive nature of our political landscape.
Concluding his comments on the subject, Trump said: “I can say this: There’s a level of passion that I’ve never seen. There’s a level of hatred that I’ve never seen, and it’s probably a bad combination.”
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