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This was a weekend of warnings. The President is still very much in danger, and the people around him still seem incapable of protecting him fully. The left is still very capable of organizing, and while it doesn’t seem much of a threat right now, it could be soon enough—sooner than you think.
Warning number one: the President’s safety.
Yesterday, the FBI announced the discovery of a hunting stand with a direct line of sight over Palm Beach Airport, where President Trump regularly boards and disembarks Air Force One, on his way to and from Mar-a-Lago.
The stand was discovered last Thursday, but the FBI held off on an announcement until Sunday.
“Prior to the President’s return to West Palm Beach, USSS [the Secret Service] discovered what appeared to be an elevated hunting stand within sight line of the Air Force One landing zone,” FBI Director Kash Patel told Fox News Digital.
“No individuals were located at the scene. The FBI has since taken the investigatory lead, flying in resources to collect all evidence from the scene, and deploying our cell phone analytics capabilities.”
US Secret Service chief of communications Anthony Guglielmi also confirmed his agency is “working closely” with the FBI as well as law enforcement in Palm Beach County.
A hunting stand?
A sniper’s perch?
Of course, we don’t know which just yet, but it looks mighty suspicious. After all, there are probably better places to hunt ducks or the winged creature of your choice than in the flight path of an airport.
What’s even more inconceivable about this incident is that authorities don’t seem to know how long the structure was there. One law enforcement source told Fox News the stand, perch, whatever looked like it had been set up “months ago.”
Months ago.
So: for months, potentially, someone with a gun has had multiple opportunities to do what Thomas Matthew Crooks and Ryan Routh both failed to do and put a bullet in President Trump.
How many times has President Trump flown in and out of Palm Beach while that structure was there? Nobody knows—and that, frankly, is criminal. And if it isn’t, it should be.
Dumbass hunter or ruthless assassin, it doesn’t matter—if you start building an elevated structure that puts you within shooting distance of the President, you should expect to be challenged instantly. The very second you start assembling the first poles and unpacking the canvas, before you’ve even set up the camp stove and brewed your first coffee—WHAM! five guys in black suits with wraparound shades and a very bad attitude should be on your ass. Game over, nature boy.
Every single potential avenue for getting to the President should be anticipated and covered at all times. And yet it isn’t. Still.
I won’t rehearse again the many failures that led to Trump’s providential dice with death at Butler, or to the second attempt on his life eight weeks later, while he was playing golf. Instead, I’ll just remind you of the incident at UN Headquarters last month, when the escalator President Trump and the First Lady were travelling on stopped abruptly and for a few dreadful seconds, while the Secret Service did the sum total of nothing, the two of them were sitting ducks.
That incident was probably a silly stunt rather than an attempt on the President’s life, but that hardly makes it better. Indeed, Trump’s security knew—or should have known—the stunt was going to happen. Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper had reported UN staff were whispering about turning off the escalators and elevators and making Trump walk all the way to the assembly chamber, days before he arrived. It was reported as a joke, but clearly it wasn’t because someone actually did it.
It should never have been allowed to happen.
Just how many more chances should the Secret Service get?
I’ll leave you to answer that question yourself, but I know what I think.
Warning two: No Kings. It’s easy to mock the protests that took place over the weekend across the US and in parts of Europe as well, but should we? Are they really so harmless and stupid?
President Trump did a pretty good job of mocking the protests himself yesterday, posting an absurd AI video of himself, crown atop head, flying a jet over the protesters and dropping a great flood of shit on them, including Harry Sisson.
Conservative commentators and X users have followed the President’s lead and dumped even more buckets of shit on the protesters. Social media has been awash with videos of low-energy boomers—including a group of geriatrics calling themselves “Grantifa”—overweight HR cat ladies and mystery-meat goblinx screaming and shouting and waving retarded placards and doing pathetic group dances. I understand why people are laughing.
Since Donald Trump’s stunning victory last November, I’ve said repeatedly that the era of mass mobilization for the left is over, for now, and that the most committed leftists will retreat into Luigi Mangione-style attacks on prominent people on the right—people like Charlie Kirk.
Broadly speaking, I still think that prediction is true. Almost a year later, the Democrat Party remains in disarray, embroiled in finger-pointing and recriminations about who let Joe Biden go on as long as he did and why Kamala Harris was chosen to replace him. In the absence of national leadership, we’ve seen what we might call “centers of resistance” emerge: individual states and cities that serve as rallying points for the left as they try to push back against the new Trump administration and its policies, especially mass deportations. California, Oregon, Portland, Chicago, Boston. State governors and city mayors—Newsom, Bass, Pritzker, Wu—are as important, at this moment, as the left’s national leadership in Washington once was. Some of these people, Gavin Newsom in particular, could go on to run for the presidency in 2028. And yes, leftists are killing prominent conservatives or trying to. Many attempts, including the attempt by a transgender man to kill Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and burn down the Heritage Foundation, have simply disappeared in the relentless churn of the news cycle.
If there isn’t a functioning national political machine like the one that effectively led a coup against President Trump during the Summer of Floyd, that doesn’t mean the left can’t still mobilize millions of people in multiple cities across the country, over a period of a day or a weekend. They just did. The protests were well-organized, coordinated and mostly peaceful—although there were plenty of people celebrating Charlie Kirk’s death, and the protest in Portland, Oregon inevitably deteriorated into a riot outside the city’s ICE facility.
The midterms, the 2028 election or even the next police “murder” of a black fentanyl addict career criminal—the left is still ready and still has the means to put people on the streets in large numbers at short notice. The right has no similar capability. MAGA can fill stadiums, sure, but even now, after everything that’s happened, the left can do much more than that.
Declaring Antifa a terrorist organization was a bold move by the President, but apart from a couple of arrests, we’ve yet to see anything like a real meaningful effort to break up the group, or to go after the people funding them, at home and abroad. They’re the people funding and organizing the No Kings protests too. It’s all connected.
