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Trump is fortunate in one respect: if you’re going to be shot, the ear is not the worst place. (“It felt like the world’s largest mosquito,” he told Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.) If offered a choice, few people would sacrifice a kneecap or a finger. A missing nose is too gruesome. A bloody toe is unimpressive. It’s true that ears can be messy. “They bleed more than any other part of the body, for whatever reason—the doctors told me that,” Trump said in his R.N.C. speech. “So we learned something.” But…
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