{"id":92091,"date":"2026-04-30T20:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/trump-wearing-a-bulletproof-vest-is-giving-in-to-a-bad-element\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T20:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:44:09","slug":"trump-wearing-a-bulletproof-vest-is-giving-in-to-a-bad-element","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/trump-wearing-a-bulletproof-vest-is-giving-in-to-a-bad-element\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: Wearing A Bulletproof Vest Is Giving In To A Bad Element"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> On Thursday, President Trump said he does not want to wear a bulletproof vest because it would be giving in to &#8220;a bad element.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>REPORTER: I want to follow up on the security changes. Is there talks about you potentially wearing a bulletproof vest moving forward, given you have now been shot at so many times?  PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I don&#8217;t know if I can handle looking 20 pounds heavier. Some of these guys are physical specimens. Some of these guys that travel with me say get the camera away from me, I don&#8217;t want to be near him.  [LAUGHTER]  Frankly, the vest did an amazing job because it took a bullet close up. And he didn&#8217;t even want to go to the hospital. I mean, we sent him to the hospital just in case, but he didn&#8217;t want, you know, still a hit. But he didn&#8217;t want to go to the hospital. The vest totally protected him.   Still a lot of power behind that shot, though. That&#8217;s like getting hit by Mike Tyson. But it&#8217;s amazing.   I&#8217;ve been asked about that. And I guess it&#8217;s something you consider. And one way you don&#8217;t like to do it is because you&#8217;re giving in to a bad element. And so I don&#8217;t know.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/04\/30\/trump_wearing_a_bulletproof_vest_is_giving_in_to_a_bad_element.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, President Trump said he does not want to wear a bulletproof vest because it would be giving in to &#8220;a bad element.&#8221; REPORTER: I want to follow up on the security changes. Is there talks about you potentially wearing a bulletproof vest moving forward, given you have now been shot at so many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[28945,11225,86,5395,13260,4680],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}