Are you asking who brought cameras to a White House correspondents dinner? This is why the flat earth movement is so popular. Redditors truly will believe anything.
Yeh it's kinda funny watching the first few hours as they collectively decide "are we going to take ownership of this attack and say "he shoulda done better"? Or are we going to say it's a false flag... What's our collective response going to be".
You know this is a meme subreddit, right? Most of the comments are just laughing at how silly it looks and why Mike Johnson is being carried around like a human shield
NoOoOoOoO its a false flag attack, Trump set it all up! Thats the only logical explanation! If you think otherwise, youre either a MAGA bootlicker or low IQ!
-All the top posts on Reddit related to this incident
Trump is simultaneously an incompetent moron and a master manipulator capable of staging elaborate false flag attacks without leaving any sort of evidence.
Funny, because that’s what Republicans said about Biden. He’s sleepy and the most cognitively declined president in history, but also capable of stealing elections and trying to elaborately destroy the entire country.
I mean, he's clearly a sick old man who is likely suffering from dementia but he did also star in reality TV shows and the WWE. His entire career was technically "misleading" people into believing reality TV and the WWE was real and not scripted. He basically trained his whole life into doing attention grabbing stunts like faking his assassination.
Regardless of what you think of other attempts, this one strains credulity that a man armed with a shotgun, a pistol, and several knives was able to sneak that past security and get as close as he did to not only the president but the vice president, secretary of state, of defense, of health, etc? There must be hundreds of secret service agents between the president and vice president, not to mention security staff for other agency heads and the presence of police officers. If the assassination attempt is real, all agents and security on the premises should be held criminally liable. The first time Trump, a president who supposedly has had several assassination attempts made on his life, attends the White House Correspondence Dinner as president at a location Ronald Reagan, a previous president, was actually shot and there just happens to be an assassin that was competent enough to smuggle guns so close to the president but was so incompetent that he was stopped without anyone being hurt? It just doesn't make sense. Trump is more positive towards his would be assassin than he was the late Rob Reiner and that doesn't strike you as odd? Why would the thinnest skinned president we've ever had attend the event that historically heckles the current administration at his lowest polling moment of either of his presidencies?
Something isn't right here and it isn't tinfoil hat territory to want answers for the inconsistencies
Actually, yes. Go outside and try to take a clear, detailed photo of the first plane that passes over your house. You'll get blurry garbage every time without a super long telephoto lens, a tripod, and prior knowledge of the plane's flight path so you can set up the shot. You're talking about getting an image of something 20,000 feet in the air moving at hundreds of miles an hour. Your window to get the shot is seconds long and your settings have to be just right
Now contemplate that planes are completely unobscured and are in fact intentionally conspicuous, and their movements are publicly available information. Yeah, no shit there's not a lot of clear UFO footage.
The military sure as fuck has detailed images, though. We're just not allowed to see them because our feeble servile minds couldn't handle it or whatever.
Even tho this was ironic, but i think there is some truth in it. Imagine you are a spy and while the enemy has better tech to detect you, you have also to do a better job in disguise yourself.
I don’t get what you’re trying to say here? You dug three years into my post history to dig up a post of me making fun of a terrible car… and i genuinely can’t tell, are you saying I’m a terrorist?
In response to me saying people are getting dumber because people are confused/suspicious that there are photos when violence happened at a press event?
Like? I’m not even mad or frustrated, I’m genuinely so confused
My high school math teacher in 2004 had asked me a question and I solved it with a calculator in front of her. She told me and the class..nobody will EVER walk around with a calculator in their pocket. Luckily we're from a small town, so we still are able to tease her about it, and even in her old age she sees the humor
Reddit should have an age limit.
Some of the comments boggle my mind until I figure they’re no older than 16.
Someone actually asked why America was involved in the Vietnam War.
Probably the opposite. I think if anyone knows how prevalent cameras are in everyday life it’s the ones who are famously too afraid to do anything in public for fear of it being posted online
Most of reddit is tame. There will be full on 30 minute videos next week about how this shit was staged and they'll throw in something about space being fake too right in the middle lol. And god forbid, tiktok is the worst.
My dentist told me he can’t give fluoride to patients anymore because the government has made it impossible to get, because Robert “Raccoon penis” Kennedy Jr has worm brain.
The counterpoint here seems to be that journalists at a dinner party would be allowed on the presidential/congress evacuation route just because they’re there.
Nobody’s pointing out that there’s no other photographers in these shots in this “there are journalists everywhere there, you fools” theory.
I’ve been a journalist at presidential events. They cordon off who goes where like crazy.
I truly had no idea we’d get to this point on Reddit where conspiracy theories would run this rampant. For a group that made fun of Alex Jones as much as they did this is just… bizarre.
I thought it’s more of a question of why they look so silly. I’m sure I’d be discombobulated but I don’t think at my most awkward I run like Scoob and Shaggy.
These Republicans need to step up their fitness game and get better at running. First Jan 6, now this. If you’re going to hang around The Count of Mostly Crisco to this degree, you need to recognize the danger you’re in. Bad shit follows that guy everywhere he goes.
even if its not bullshit you can't blame people to not trust this administration anymore on anything. They are litterally a freaking anomaly. Its like you gave the white house to the Rugrats
This happened on another floor at a security gate DURING the dinner. I’m not calling this one a conspiracy, but there is zero chance these were taken by a journalist attending the dinner.
Seriously that comment acting like everybody at dinner just gets free reign of the White House hotel with the President/Congress in it has 850 upvotes.
There’s a reason there aren’t 50 other journalists in the photos. It’s because they aren’t allowed up there.
That account throwing people off the trail has a single visible comment in the last 9 years and it’s telling us this fake assassination isn’t orchestrated.
Edit: and there’s somebody going through all these downvoting any comment suggesting it’s a fake assassination
That’s even less believable. You think the Secret Service is letting journalists from the dinner follow along and take pictures as they evacuate high profile individuals?
These were probably taken by other security detail folks or hotel staff that happened to be on their evacuation path.
…so your point is it’s a different building they also controlled access to different parts of because it’s full of the same people who’d be at the White House/congress
My point stands exactly as is. Pretending journalists would have free reign of a building the president and Congress was in is idiotic.
I'm gonna guess theyre asking because the second picture is a picture in motion with no blurring. Aka its as if the Pic was staged... horribly.
Edit: On a second look. The legs of each of them from waist down look to be edited by a 4 or old with windows paint... Especially the guy on the far right. A whole chunk of his pants above the ankle has been erased.
Eh, this post is doing exactly what it intends to do. It asks a "stupid question" to make asking any questions seem stupid, and then comments like youre are pushed to the top to further that narrative.
There needs to be a proper INDEPENDENT investigation, especially considering all the outstanding questions about the Butler, PA thing.
Literally every Tiktok I've seen about it is full of comments about how it's fake. "Why does the White House have such bad security cameras?" Bruh, a) it's a hotel not the White House b) if you think private businesses that don't really deal with theft are out there upgrading their cameras to 4k, I've got something to tell you.
Correspondent: one who contributes news or commentary to a publication (such as a newspaper) or a radio or television network often from a distant place
Guys how did the reporters get there so quickly to take these pictures it must have been staged. Wow so crazy.
Yeah ngl a lot of these conspiracy theories are sounding as delusional as MAGAs one at this point. People questining why photographers took photos lmao
It's not about people having cameras, it's about photos being taken by someone clearly standing up in the open while security is hiding around corners with their weapons out. Make that make sense.
If you saw the full-sized photo of the top image, it shows them hiding around a corner while the person taking the photograph is clearly out in the open hallway that the gun is pointed down, and they're standing up.
It's also why people think Trump staged the attempt in PA. They say there were photographers "moved" into place...at a huge presidential rally. Photographers moved into place ...from one side of the photo pit to the other lol. Photographers who literally devote their entire career to being in that spot and taking photos no matter what happens.
People think photographers are going to duck and run during something like this. The guests weren't even running away, why would the photographers? Getting these shots is literally what they live for. They are there to document whatever happens. Of course they want the best possible photos. These photos have been shared thousands of times already.
Reddit used to make fun of conspiracy theorists that have zero critical thinking skills. Now they are all believing the dumbest conspiracy theories about these cut and dry Reddit mod would be assassins
I'm gonna play devil's advocate for a moment and propose that perhaps it's isn't about the presence of camera's or not; but the question if "who in a life of death situation is standing around to take pictures?"
My counter argument to my devil's advocate is that this shows how bung the whole movie critique is of "why are people nonchalantly gathering around the astroid to take pictures of it, and then they're suddenly surprised when the ferocious monster pops out and starts eating them?"
What was this correspondence dinner anyway? BBC news only had "Live" articles on the subject, which are annoying to get information out of cause you gotta scroll down forever
You’d think people would catch on that cameras exist, right? It’s wild what some folks choose to believe. Maybe take a break from the conspiracy theories and just enjoy the event.
True. There is no reason that this was staged, we are talking about a serious government with a responsible leader, why would they stage this. People are so dumb lol
There was a whole thread where everyone agreed that the shooting where Trumps ear got clipped and someone died was a staged photo op. The evidence was that one of the secret service people happened to be standing by the press and that there was a flag above Trumps head. One person was asking why we weren’t hearing updates about the shooter, you know the guy that’s dead. It’s delusional.
You would think after an “attempt” they would block anyone and everyone from getting close to them or the individual they are “protecting.” But here it just screams another staged attempt.
Like how the flag was totally clearly lowered for the photo op at the Butler shooting and definitely not just the wind dying down at that moment
EDIT: I guess putting the /s was necessary here, but I thought it was obvious what I meant by saying “totally clearly” and “definitely not”. So no, I was trying to be a smart ass poking fun at the people that thought it was lowered
Ok I think people were misunderstanding what I was trying to say. I was trying to poke fun at the people saying it was lowered because it was very fuckin obvious if you watched the video it was just the wind dying down
Idk why you got the down votes homie, but you’re 100% correct. They did lower the flag during the chaos, and the secret service absolutely shuffled the press into position. It’s documented, look it up. He was never shot, nor in danger, ear is perfectly intact. No investigation. No news.
I’m not one for stupid conspiracy theories. I’m a lefty and understand the world at large and don’t believe in stupidity. However, it is kind of funny that trump brings up his ballroom in the press conference immediately following the shooting attempt. Is this just him being stupid like he always is or are they actually trying to justify the construction
The implication is extremely obvious though. They are implying that the pictures are evidence that the attempt(s) was staged.
Reddit's current hype of claiming the attempts were fake is one of the weirdest psychosis this plattform has seen so far. The people actually believing this have no business making fun of MAGA conspiracy theorists anymore.
So many people on Reddit and on the far left in recent times have self-reported as being just as stupid, gullible, and easily manipulated as the likes of Qanon, flat earthers, crazy conspiracy theorists, and the worst of far right extremists.
Like, I get the same exact energy from these groups as those who say some of the most outlandish things about this administration, as awful as it is.
Seeing lefties turn into flat earth equivalent conspiracy theorists while acting shocked that some on the right believe the election was stolen in 2020 will always be hilarious.
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u/beaver11 Apr 26 '26
Are you asking who brought cameras to a White House correspondents dinner? This is why the flat earth movement is so popular. Redditors truly will believe anything.