{"id":92126,"date":"2026-05-01T12:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/would-trump-wear-bulletproof-vest-i-dont-know-if-i-could-handle-looking-20-pounds-heavier\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T12:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:43:10","slug":"would-trump-wear-bulletproof-vest-i-dont-know-if-i-could-handle-looking-20-pounds-heavier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/would-trump-wear-bulletproof-vest-i-dont-know-if-i-could-handle-looking-20-pounds-heavier\/","title":{"rendered":"Would Trump Wear Bulletproof Vest? &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Know If I Could Handle Looking 20 Pounds Heavier&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> President Trump had a good line prepared when a reporter asked him on Thursday if the third major assassination attempt in two years has made him consider wearing a bulletproof vest.   NewsNation White House correspondent Libbey Dean asked the president: &#8220;Is there talk about you potentially wearing a bulletproof vest, moving forward given you have now been shot at three times?&#8221;  &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if I could handle looking 20 pounds heavier,&#8221; Trump joked.   &#8220;Some of these guys are physical specimens,&#8221; he added, referring to the Secret Service agents he&#8217;s usually surrounded by.   &#8220;Frankly, the vest did an amazing job&#8211;it took a bullet close up,&#8221; he said about the one worn by the Secret Service agent shot at the White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner. &#8220;He didn&#8217;t even want to go to the hospital.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/04\/30\/would_trump_wear_bulletproof_vest_i_dont_know_if_i_could_handle_looking_20_pounds_heavier.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump had a good line prepared when a reporter asked him on Thursday if the third major assassination attempt in two years has made him consider wearing a bulletproof vest. NewsNation White House correspondent Libbey Dean asked the president: &#8220;Is there talk about you potentially wearing a bulletproof vest, moving forward given you have [&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":[28945,216,322,16770,28958,323,4679,6967,5395,13260,1899,201],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92126"}],"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=92126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}