The Hoax That Wasn't: What Really Happened at the WHCD

If you think political violence is just a conspiracy theory, think again—this week’s real assassination attempt on President Trump is being dismissed by left-wing social media as a staged stunt, mere hours after shots rang out in the same D.C. hotel where John Hinckley shot at Reagan. The rush to call it a hoax reveals just how deep the mistrust and division in America have become, even as the facts are still settling. When even the actual Reagan shooter is spooked by the parallels, it’s time to ask: is our political climate too broken to recognize a genuine threat when it happens?

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Transcript

Opening Banter And Breaking News

SPEAKER_00 0:15

Some of us have to make a living. What can I tell you?

The Claimed Facts Of The Attempt

Hoax Claims And The Risk

Secret Service Failures And Fixes

Canada’s View And Media Framing

SPEAKER_01 0:18

I like the way you say it. You know, David, someone just tried to kill the president of the United States. I heard that. And the American left's first instinct is to grab their phones and call it a movie set. You know, the thing is. Not a whore, not a whore, not a whore, not a condemnation, not even a basic human decency, a conspiracy theory. Of course. And I need you to sit with that for just a second. Before we go any further, because that tells you everything you need to know, where this country is right now. Let me give you the facts. The real ones, David. Go figure. Before the left rewrites them for us, this week at the White House Correspondent Dinner Gala in DC, there was another assassination attempt on President Trump and multiple other members of his cabinet. The Secret Service responded, the suspect was arrested, the threat was documented and real, and someone got shot. And within hours, maybe minutes, not days, not after a long national reflection, within those few minutes, one in five left-wing social media posts were about the assassination attempt, calling it hoax. Staged orchestrated by Donald J. Trump himself. One in five. Now, I want you to understand this happened. It wasn't some random venue. It's the same Washington, D.C. hotel where John Hinckley was shot in front of President Ronald Reagan in 1981. The exact same venue. And you know who noticed? John Hinckley. The man who actually got shot looked at this week's news and called the connection very spooky. Let that land on your head. The actual Reagan shooter found a parallel unsettling, and the American left found it suspicious. Their conclusion was Trump had to have set it up. The Trump administration, to their credit, didn't mince words. They called the conspiracy quotes from morons. I think the most restrained thing the White House has said in years, you know, calling them morons for what they are. But here's what I want to slow down because the hoax narrative isn't just stupid. It isn't just embarrassing. It's so fucking dangerous. You know, these are the same people, the same exact people who spent the last 10 years. That's right, wing conspiracy theories were an existential threat to democracy. That's the words that have consequences. That misinformation costs lives, that rhetoric incites violence. They built an entire political identity around being responsible party. That looked true furiously, the ones that protected democratic norms. And the moment someone tried to kill the president of the United States, they go off on social media and they say he hired a fake shooter. At the same hotel where Reagan was shot, I can't make this shit up. And it's not that it came out of nowhere. Former FBI director Comey, the man left held up as a paragon of institutional integrity, posted 8647 on social media. In case you didn't know, 86 military term is eliminate. 47 is the number of the U.S. president. The former director of the Bureau used coded assassination language on the internet. And significant chunk of mainstream left looked at the post and either cheered or utterly fucking silent. This is a new pattern, by the way. James Hoggson, a left-wing acts fit's radical, you know, progressive media lunatic, opened fire on Republican congressman baseball practice. He nearly killed White House whip Steve Khalise. Remember that, David? The left spent 72 hours on it, mumbled something about both sides, and moved on. No reckoning, no self-examination, no congressional hearings, and about the dangerous regric pipeline on the left, just fucking silence. Here we are again. Except this time they're not just ignoring the violence, they're denying it was violence. Jason Schaeffitz, the former House Oversight Committee, laid it out this week on Fox News that the Secret Service has been an institutional crisis for a decade. Understaffed, underfunded, mismanaged, two separate security incidences in a similar same week. The Gallusap assassination, a barrier breach near the White House, during Charles' visit. This is a fixable problem. You fund it, you demand accountability, reform leadership in Congress, get rid of the jackasses in Texas, get the jacked asses out of Minnesota, the Bronx, the ignorant squad. But you can't pass laws that fix cultures where half the country looks at a real assassination and says it's a SISOP. Hey, let me just finish with this, and I'll throw it over to David. Here's what I want you to know to be true. The left built an ideological egosystem, not egosystem, ecosystem. That the person brought a weapon to a gala lived inside. They built it nine years of dehumanizing coded language and unanswered rhetoric. And when the bill came due, someone acted on it. They looked at it, checked it, said, Ah, it's not real. Wink wink nod nod. You spent a decade telling us violence and conspiracy theories threaten democracy. A man tried to kill the fucking president, and you say it was fake. You own it because history will say that you do. David, I want you to hear. Take this, you're watching this from the northern border, and I think the perspective that you have will matter. So three things. Three things. Right? From where you sit in Canada. McCartney's government says nothing. Lastly, the normalization of it. A real assassination attempt on the president of the United States.

When Violence Gets Normalized

SPEAKER_00 7:38

All right, let's start first of all with the Canadian obsession that you have. Let me tell you how many Canadians today are not proud to be Canadians. And I want to get this out of the way right now. There are many Canadians who are horrified by what happens south of the border. The silence that you see from the liberal government does not represent Canadians. Period. End of story. Hard stop. Call it whatever you want. So when you when you hear silence from the federal government, it does not represent the feeling and the sentiments of Canadians. Now, I had lunch last Friday, Stuart, when you were away with somebody who was trying to convince me how much of a non-human Donald Trump is. And I went, where did we go? Like where's this coming from? And you know what he quotes me, Stuart? The economist. Mann's a very smart guy, a lawyer, very well, you know, knowledgeable, informed, not a stupid, naive guy, but quoted the economist like it was the Bible. And I said, Do you have any understanding of where the economist comes from? Because since 2016, since Donald Trump was elected, find me one positive article that the economist actually wrote about Donald Trump. And his answer to me was, well, there's nothing positive he's done. And I'm like, Whoa, wait, stop, stop, stop. You can't say that. You can't. Because there has to be a reason why he was re-elected. There has to be a reason why he has people following him. And the and again, quoting this whole left-wing narrative is that the man is Hitler, the man is. And I'm like, it's not possible that there's not a single act I can tell you where Biden and Obama, as much as I dislike them, I can tell you where I think they did well. But I cannot say to you that every president is 100% of anything. But he keeps quoting the economists. Now, why am I bringing up the economists, Stewart? It's because recently they were trying to tell everybody that violence in the United States is not a left-wing problem, but a right wing problem. Them and the Wall Street Journal have decided that that's what it is. That it is not the left. No, no, the left are morally sound and justified in their reactions. But it's white supremacists, it's all of those people who are really causing the problem in the United States. Did in their list of political assassinations, Charlie Kirk doesn't make their list. Economists decided that anti-Semitism, any violent actions of anti-Semitism, doesn't count. It's cultural, it's not political violence. So when you start to wrap things up in different, you know, bows, and you decide, well, this is okay and this is not okay, this is why the left has a problem. Because their own publications, their own socials, their own are telling you that you are in the right, you are correct, and therefore what you do and how you do is okay. How many people were violently hurt during the George Floyd riots? How many businesses were burned down during the George Floyd riots? But that was called justifiable anger. Round three, the person trying to get close to Donald Trump, Butler, Pennsylvania, Stewart, the big screw up, the assassination almost caught live on television. People were cheering for it. I know people who were cheering and were disappointed that he didn't get killed. And we asked ourselves way back when, when we did this rant, back when in 2014 2024, what is wrong with people that you are cheering for death? Are we that crass? Are we that are we inhuman to the point where we can't find any civility? But apparently not. And the majority of them, you know, I don't understand. There was a shooter, there was an active shooter situation. We are now training. Imagine that we are training people in business, schools, community centers to deal in active shooter situations. And there's no reaction. Anger is justified with violence. Where did we lose any sight on the reality, Stuart? And so when you're bringing up all of these things, you know, I have never heard I have never heard of right wingers cheering for left wingers to be shot. I haven't. Okay. Now, are there people on the extremes? Yeah, and maybe they have, but I follow a lot of right wing people, and I never heard, oh, we should shoot Chuck Schumer. We should get rid of Akeem Jeffries, we should 86 Biden. Like you would have never heard that.

SPEAKER_01 13:31

Well, they they'd be terrified of 86 and Biden just to you know just they didn't want Kamala Harris.

SPEAKER_00 13:36

No, but but you see, Stuart, the problem is that the left claims the moral high ground as their own and exclusively their own. And what they do is justified, and that's what the media is teaching, that's what you've seen in universities. I think it's re reprehensible that this is the reaction. Jimmy Kimmel refusing to apologize for his joke is the is the is the exact what I'm talking about. You know, he makes a joke about Melania Trump being an expectant widow, doesn't really care that you know these these jokes fall on deaf ears for the majority of people. But when your base laughs, okay, you got your laughs. Congratulations. But you are no longer human when you cheer for the death of another person. So I could care less if I'm in Canada, US, Australia, England. If you're cheering for the death of the president of the United States, you you I have no respect for you.

SPEAKER_01 14:36

Well, it it it it's it's something that you see going on in the wonderful uh Islamic regimes. Death to America, death to the president, death to this, death to that. They've taken one right out of the fascist book, and and they're calling the other party the fascists. It's just sort of like an oxymoron. It's like, let me call someone else this shit because I'm really talking about myself. It's denial. But that's what the you know. I had an argument. I was with a very sophisticated doctor when I was in Houston last week. Brilliant man, utterly brilliant. And you know what? He claims he's not a Democrat, he claims he's not a Republican, he claims he's uh independent. However, his vitriol hatred towards Donald Trump weighs more than anything else, and I find that constantly overwhelmingly insane.

What Changed Since JFK

SPEAKER_00 15:31

You know, I it actually isn't, Stuart. I actually don't agree with you. It isn't insane, it's the pattern, it's the pattern that the Democrats and the left have put in. Because when you don't have an alternative solution, great, let's find a way to make people hate them so much that they'll swap their vote. That's all this is about. Not there's no substance behind the hate other than we hate the guy. We can't come up with an alternative, so let's hate the guy so that we'll vote for somebody else, you know, Stuart. That that's what they are doing, but it's but it goes beyond that, Stuart. And I'll ask you this question at what point in society did anybody cheer for the Kennedy assassination? Really, think about it. The last political assassination, the death of a president, was John F. Kennedy. We are now over 60 years since the the assassination. Do you see anywhere that cheers for this democratic president to have been killed?

SPEAKER_01 16:41

I I have never in my life seen death to America, death to a president in anywhere anywhere except in Iran, Gaza, Lebanon. I mean, I've never seen David, the only where on earth, not even the Russians or Chinese have ever said death to a president.

SPEAKER_00 17:09

This is again, David, I mean, comes out of the the Supreme movement, but I'm not talking about political actors, like you just said. In the United States, in the United States, have you ever read anywhere, heard anyone said it's a good thing we killed Kennedy? Did you ever hear that? No, never. You don't hear that, and in fact, if you ask Republicans or Democrats, do you agree with the with the assassination of John Kennedy? The answer overwhelming is no. So why now? Kennedy was divisive, Kennedy didn't have support from the mafia, didn't have support from the casino owners, didn't have support from a whole bunch of people, wasn't loved, was a Catholic president. There was a lot of quote reasons not to like the guy. But you didn't hear Americans celebrate his death. Nope. Charlie Kirk's death was celebrated by the left. I'm like, you that's sick. And if Donald Trump would have been killed at this Hilton Hotel, I think there would have been a celebration, there would have been parades going on. But you know, Stuart, it's funny because when you know, Donald Trump, you know, sometimes he says stupid things, and and I heard his press conference right after, and I was like, and and it's really cute to see all these journalists through it in their tuxedos and their beautiful ball gowns at in the press room. And the incredible thing is that you know, he's he one of the things he said was let's get this ballroom built up. And no, we're gonna make an issue about that too. It's an ego thing, it's a this thing. Listen, if the violence today is off the charts and we you can't do it in a hotel, you can't have the right security in the hotel, then you know, it's again the left cannot bring itself to to come to a middle ground and say they can't say anymore. You know what? Let's tone this down.

SPEAKER_01 19:21

Yeah, good luck with that, David. You know what that you know what that means? Let's go.

SPEAKER_00 19:27

You're bored, wrap it up. Let's go.

SPEAKER_01 19:29

All right, let's play some music. All right, everybody, it's nice to see you again every Monday, Wednesday, Friday noon Easter. We take it down and kick people around, but we don't win anyone waving like you crazy idiots out there that's gonna have this really interesting view, but whatever. We love you, see you up.