Like the picture of the Marines at Iwo Jima or Neil Armstrong on the moon, everyone will remember the picture of Trump’s bloody face.
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, 47th 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.
