Victor Davis Hanson: They Said ‘Punch Him’—Now It’s Bullets: The Dangerous Escalation No One Wants to Admit

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🗓️ 27 April 2026

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No president in U.S. history has been the target of three assassination attempts in which shots were fired by either law enforcement or the shooter himself. And yet this is Trump’s third time. Political violence doesn’t happen overnight. For almost a decade now, the Left has reified the idea that 1. Trump is “literally Hitler” and 2. that harming him is justified—Gavin Newsom and Robert De Niro talked about hitting Trump in the mouth. Shakespeare in the Park substituted Caesar for a Trump look-alike. Anthony Bourdain said he’d poison him. And that lowers the bar. And that means people like Cole Tomas Allen come out of the woodwork, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.” 👉 The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: http://dailysignal.com/donate 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest short videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1⁠ Also on Spotify: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL9753340027 👉Want more VDH? Watch Victor’s weekly, hour-long podcast, “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” now! Subscribe to his YouTube channel, and enable notifications: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273?sub_confirmation=1👉More exclusive content is available on Victor’s website: https://victorhanson.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.9	Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.
0:36.0	We had the third attempt on Donald Trump's life that were shots were exchanged within two years,
0:44.7	recently at the White House Correspondents' Dinner at the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C.
0:49.5	on last Saturday evening.
0:52.9	No president in U.S. history has been the object, the target of three
0:58.3	assassination attempts in which shots were fired by one of the either law enforcement or the shooter
1:03.6	himself. And yet Trump, this is the third time. So we've had this Cole, Thomas, Allen.
1:12.6	We had Ruth, remember, in Palm Beach, and we had crooks on the roof in Butler.
1:18.6	We also had a young man, I think his name was Martin, and he was the person who tried to break into Marlago and kill Trump and he was killed himself
1:28.3	by law enforcement. Trump was not at Marlago. But what is what's building this up? What's the reason for all this?
1:37.3	And I'll give you some examples. One is Hassan Piker. He's sort of the Nick Fuentes of the left. He's a influencer,
1:50.4	a podcaster, a commentator, and he's captivated the base of the left with his extreme
1:58.5	anti-Israel, anti-Semitic, pro-Hamas, pro-Islamic rhetoric.
2:04.2	And he has said most recently in an interview with a New Yorker, S.A.S. and a New York Times reporter,
2:12.3	that it was fine to steal, steal from the Louvre, steal from stores, according to his Marxist doctrine
2:20.2	that each people must take or deserve to take what they need, given he feels the oppression
2:26.9	of capitalism.
2:27.8	He also, remember, very controversially in this interview, excused or praised, he didn't
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