A better conspiracy theory is that Trump set up a fake attempt, and Trump was assured he wouldn’t be hurt because the marksman was terrible. Trump is too stupid to realize that a terrible marksman trying to miss Trump closely… …might accidentally hit Trump!

And it’s a scam to divert some federal dollars into crypto, even though there’s an ongoing deficit and crypto is speculative backed by nothing at all. Might as well be the Dutch government investing in tulips.

This. The tariffs are a massive extortion racket for Trump, which explains his eagerness to impose them. One thing is clear, the stated reasons for the tariffs have nothing to do with this decision, and there will be no progress on them regardless of what happens to the tariffs.

Trump has now admitted he lied about trans people being an important concern, that he lied about being able to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine in one day, and that he lied about being able to reduce grocery prices. Most of the central arguments of his campaign, he’s already flip-flopped.