Donald Trump claims Pennsylvania shooting had ‘no impact’ on his mental health

Apparently, Donald Trump is repeatedly asked whether he has considered seeking therapeutic counseling following the attempt on his life in July at a rally in Pennsylvania that left one participant dead and several others injured.

But Trump insists that this admittedly “surreal experience” had absolutely “no impact” on his mental well-being, describing his lack of PTSD symptoms as “simply amazing” in a recent interview with the Daily Mail.

However, he said he believes surviving the assassination attempt may have been an act of divine intervention. “You know what I’d like to believe? I’d like to believe it’s God and that God is doing it because he wants to save America,” Trump said. “If you look at the charts, I’d like to say it was God who saved me. It wasn’t just luck, but the reason he saved me is because I can save this country. I hope that’s true.”

These messianic musings were accompanied by further comments on another of Trump’s regular obsessions: the size of crowds at his rallies. “I had a huge crowd as far as the eye could see,” he told the newspaper of the fateful day in Butler County. “We had people controlling the crowd saying when bullets fly, 99 percent of the time everyone goes nuts. Nobody left, including the tens of thousands of people in front of me.”

Another obvious point that has fascinated the 78-year-old Republican candidate in the weeks since the Pennsylvania shooting has been the resounding success of the Tim Walz-inspired accusations that both he and his running mate, JD Vance, are just “weird.” To which Trump has repeatedly responded that they are, in fact, “extremely normal” people.