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Trump has lived such a charmed life up until this point, there is no way he could have conceived of a world where someone would shoot at him.
I totally believe that the assassination attempt completely shattered his perspective.
Being real, it's much, much stranger to imagine a scenario in which an assassination attempt doesn't shake someone to the core. I'm just glad that it broke him rather than turning the maniac dial.
I imagine Fidel got used to them
The difference here being, Fidel literally fought for his beliefs. Trump is a billionaire who has had everything handed to him