Last Friday, an NPR reporter inadvertently bonked President Trump in the head with a boom mic while he was answering a question about Gaza at Joint Base Andrews. Anytime the President gets whipped in the face, it's going to be a news story, and Twitter had a grand old time with a new favorite meme, 'the Trump reaction shot.'
New Trump reaction gif just dropped 😂 pic.twitter.com/CiOt2M1RaX
— Politi_Rican 🇵🇷 𝕏 🇺🇸 (@TheRicanMemes) March 14, 2025
It wasn't accidental and we got four amazing reaction shots out of it. pic.twitter.com/w7sIyNnqgY
— IAmSilky (@IAmVerySilky) March 14, 2025
Well, there may be something to that 'accidentally on purpose' bop on the head.
Soon after the incident, Laura Loomer identified the reporter as Danielle Kurtzleben and, while we generally consider Loomer to be a few cards short of a full deck, she DID reveal some pretty strong leftist leanings held by the reporter, including ties to the gender cult and once saying that Trump was part of the KKK.
None of that definitively means that she meant to whack the President, of course, but it was enough for Twitter to start speculating about whether it was an accident (it was a very windy day) or yet another lame attempt by the left to show their 'resistance.'
Tragically, now The Daily Mail has reported that being exposed has caused Kurtzleben to 'go into hiding.'
NPR reporter driven into hiding after being named by MAGA as one who hit Trump in face with a mic https://t.co/8IN0RtxoEq
— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) March 17, 2025
What does 'into hiding' mean, our Twitchy readers smartly ask?
She ... uhh ... made her Twitter account private.
No, seriously. That's pretty much it.
After being named, Kurtzleben made her X account private and has not spoken about the situation.
DailyMail.com reached out to Kurtzleben, but received a message that she was 'out of the office.' NPR did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
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LOL. Why, she's practically in witness protection. Like Henry Hill or Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano.
Twitter had a hard time rustling up any tears of sympathy for Kurtzleben's grueling ordeal.
“Driven into hiding.” pic.twitter.com/LT5lBTz6pY
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) March 18, 2025
In hiding.. https://t.co/WP5VBZ96JC pic.twitter.com/b5jXvqChvi
— Terry, LEO (Ret.) (@editor_wp) March 17, 2025
The Daily Mail, by its own admission, didn't even get that claim of being 'in hiding' from Kurtzleben herself.
They just made it up and ran with it.
Why would she be “driven into hiding” since maga isn’t violent BUT we DO MOCK & make fun of these fake news “reporters”
— SeldenGADawgs (@SeldenGADawgs) March 18, 2025
Many people were outraged that a reporter, ANY reporter, was able to get that close to the President with a boom mic, but no one ever threatened Kurtzleben.
Everyone on the right just made fun of her.
She's hiding because she was exposed as an idiot.
— Melissa Sebree AKA Your Mother (@MelissaSebree) March 17, 2025
Well ... kind of, yeah.
She should have been doing that her whole life. pic.twitter.com/l7X6MxA5g5
— Wellington’s Spurs (@WellingtonSpurs) March 18, 2025
OUCH. Now, that's not nice. It is accurate perhaps, but not nice at all.
We're glad that we didn't say it.
It was an accident, probably.
— jmaceye (@jmaceye) March 17, 2025
One would think that no sane person would do such a thing.
Yet...TDS is real and the Left is insane...so there is that.
Maybe if Kurtzleben would emerge from 'hiding,' she could just apologize and say that it was a windy day and her arm slipped. Almost every conservative on the planet would immediately forget the incident (except for the memes).
But it's more profitable for her and The Daily Mail to turn her into a victim.
Drama queen.
— Naomi157 (@Naomi1571) March 17, 2025
Seriously.
The real victim. https://t.co/1qxWiNsXWC
— Larry Clark (@MrLarryClark) March 18, 2025
LOL. Every. Single. Time.
In my world "NPR reporter driven into hiding" would be a daily, celebratory, front page feel good story .
— Jefferson Airdrop (@Airdropdeez) March 18, 2025
HAHAHAHA.
If only the made-up story was true, right?
Libturds always scamper like cockroaches to their safe spaces. Unlike Dems, no MAGA person would threaten her for being clumsy and too weak to manage the boom.
— Fouroh (@scarlett_oharra) March 17, 2025
Threaten? No. A very hard no.
Mock? Laugh at? Ridicule? Absolutely.
And if that is too much for Kurtzleben to withstand, maybe journalism isn't the profession for her.
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