Trump assassination attempt echoes Ronald Reagan shooting in 1981
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Ronald Reagan was the last president to be shot in an assassination attempt before Donald Trump was hit at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.
When leaving the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C. on March 30, 1981, Reagan was shot at several times and wounded when one bullet ricocheted off a vehicle and struck him under the left armpit.
Then-President Reagan spent 12 days at George Washington University Hospital before returning to the White House.
Trump, while not currently the U.S. president, is the first to be shot in an assassination attempt since that day in 1981.
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The gunman is dead, according to law enforcement.
The former president and this year’s presumed Republican presidential nominee was speaking at a rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Saturday when several pops were heard before Trump grabbed his ear and ducked behind the podium.
Several members of Trump’s Secret Service detail came to shield and escort him off stage.
A resilient Trump immediately got to his feet and held up his fist as blood streaked down the side of his face.
The only other unsuccessful assassination attempt against a U.S. president before Reagan was Theodore Roosevelt.
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Three-and-a-half years after leaving office he was shot while campaigning in 1912 as a member of the Progressive Party.
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