John Hinckley Jr., the man who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981, has been so inundated with requests to do something similar to Donald Trump that he felt compelled to address the situation on social media.
How far gone do you have to be to try and enlist a former attempted assassin to take out the new President-elect — and he’s telling you to get a grip? Hinckley’s comments indicate enough of an onslaught of requests that it needed to be mentioned.
And it’s incredibly troublesome considering Democrat rhetoric over the past several months has already led to two attempts on Trump’s life — one of which came within a centimeter of killing him and plunging the nation into irreparable chaos.
“I’m a man of peace now!” Hinckley insisted. “Please stop with all the negative comments!”
NBC 4 in Columbus reports that Hinckley’s plea is in response “to messages on social media calling for him to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump.”
Making matters worse is that some social media users who saw his plea for peace kept egging him on. Most of them focused on what he claims was the motivation to shoot Reagan — his obsession with impressing actress Jodie Foster.
“You know what Jodie Foster would think is REALLY impressive?” one man writes, adding a GIF of Colin Jost saying, “Just saying.”