The Picture of Donald Trump

The two most iconic and evocative photographs in modern history depict the American flag. One is the picture of the victorious Marines under fire at Iwo Jima planting Old Glory on Mount Suribachi. The second is of Neil Armstrong on...

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The two most iconic and evocative photographs in modern history depict the American flag. One is the picture of the victorious Marines under fire at Iwo Jima planting Old Glory on Mount Suribachi. The second is of Neil Armstrong on the Moon, contemplating the U.S. flag he and Buzz Aldrin placed there. As of last weekend, there’s a third. Of Donald Trump, his face bloody from an assassin’s bullet, standing behind a human wall of Secret Service agents with their backs to any shooter, raising his fist with the Star-Spangled Banner above him. If a picture’s worth a thousand words, this one guarantees seven, and one number – Donald Trump, 47^th President of the United States.

In 1973, the late great filmmaker and critic Peter Bogdanovich wrote a seminal book on cinema called Pieces of Time. It’s a series of engrossing essays and interviews with then still living movie legends looking back on their careers. The title came from a comment by James Stewart reflecting on his long popularity. “That’s the great thing about the movies,” said Stewart. “After you learn — and if you’re good and God helps you, and you’re lucky enough to have a personality that comes across — then what you’re doing is … you’re giving people little … little tiny pieces of time … that they never forget.” (READ MORE from Lou Aguilar: The Curtains Are Drawn on Biden and Europe’s Rulers)

What we witnessed last Saturday evening in Butler, Pennsylvania was not a movie. It was shockingly, brutally, inescapably real. Yet it was also an indelible moment in time, in which the protagonist Donald Trump’s personality came across in a manner nobody on either ideological side will ever forget. Because for the second instance in only two weeks, the Left saw the true bearing of one of the two men who would be President next year as the opposite of what they’d been led to believe.

Conservatives knew the media in both cases had lied. They knew Joe Biden was a desiccated husk even as his Press Secretary called videos confirming this “cheap fakes.” And leftists swallowed everything the Democrats and their journalistic heralds told them. That behind closed doors, Biden was playing geopolitical chess and watchdogging America. It took a live televised debate between him and Trump to strip away their comforting delusion and show him for the mindless zombie he is.

So, they were forced to admit, conservatives had been right about Biden all along. And their anger turned to wrath — not against their deluders but the sad pitiable empty man they’d deemed the last best hope versus an existential threat far worse than climate change — Donald Trump.

For they’d bought every leftwing lie about Trump. That he called neo-Nazis “fine people” when he openly condemned them. That he was Putin’s stooge. That Hunter Biden’s laptop exposing Biden Family corruption was Russian disinformation to aid Trump. That he masterminded an insurrection which not only didn’t happen but he’d called for peaceful protest to prevent trouble.

That Trump had been President for three good years and one bad plague year meant nothing to the leftist rabble rousers. This time, they warned, Trump would be a Constitution-shredding dictator, a revenger, or worst, Hitler. Just last week, the once respectable magazine The New Republic displayed a cover of Trump as Der Führer above the headline, “American Fascism — What It Would Look Like.”

This after several CNN and MSNBC luminaries made a similar comparison. “Keep Hitler out of the White House,” screeched Joy Reid on Tiktok. And the rabble bought it. Until last Saturday, when they observed the heroic behavior by Trump as fearfully as they suffered Biden’s debate meltdown.

There’s little need to describe in detail the scene everyone watched — and will again many times. They saw Trump addressing a massive crowd. Saw him suddenly slap his ear as if stung by a bee. Saw him drop behind the lectern while Secret Service agents rushed the stage to protect him. Saw the faces in the crowd seemingly more concerned for his safety than their own. Saw him stand up and raise his right fist in defiance of the evil force that tried to kill him. Saw and heard the audience chant “USA!” in delight their champion had survived.

These were not neo-Nazis but normal patriotic Americans decried as deplorables by the Democratic elite cheering a strong leader who’s on their side. “They’re not after me, they’re after all of you,” Trump often says. “I’m just in their way.” Well, he just took a bullet for them. Even then he didn’t forget them. He made sure to let them know he was okay. Hence the now famous photo.

I’ve long written that real men like Donald Trump will save this country. They’ve had enough of the emasculation by the Left and the shrieks of madwomen and are ready to show them who’s boss. That’s what Trump did on Saturday. They hit him with everything they had – slander, impeachment, sham trials, finally assassination. Trump spit it all out, the last bit on Truth Social. (READ MORE: Biden Voters Get the Red Pill)

“I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear” he posted. “I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin. Much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening. GOD BLESS AMERICA.”

God did bless America. He spared the life of the once and future President. Who will now walk back into the White House in November. Because everyone will remember his bloody face, his raised fist, and the American flag above him.

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