I’m still standing - Donald Trump

Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States and the presumptive Republican Party nominee for the 2024 presidential election, was injured in the right ear during a shooting incident on July 13, 2024, at a campaign rally near Butler, Pennsylvania.

The shooter was 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. Law enforcement personnel and witnesses said Crooks crawled onto a roof outside the rally venue and fired eight rounds from an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle before being killed by a Secret Service Counter Assault Team sniper. A rally attendee was killed, while two other attendees were critically injured.

After being shot, Trump ducked to the ground and was quickly surrounded by Secret Service personnel. He soon rose to his feet, bleeding from his right ear. He then pumped his fist into the air and shouted "fight, fight" before Secret Service agents rushed him to a vehicle. Trump was then taken to a hospital and released in a stable condition, departing by plane to New Jersey.

The shooting is being investigated as an attempted assassination. It is the first time that a former or current U.S. president was injured in an attempted assassination since Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981, and the first time for a presidential candidate since the attempted assassination of George Wallace in 1972.