WASHINGTON — President Trump revealed his “big plans” for the midterms include a desire to “survive” amid left-wing violence.
The president said the morbid line during an interview with One America News Network released Thursday, after a reporter asked him if he had plans to be out on the campaign trail stumping for GOP candidates.
“I have big plans, I want to survive,” Trump chuckled.
“So you look at what’s going on, it’s crazy. You know, the rhetoric that these crazy Democrats are using is very dangerous. They’ve made politics very dangerous,” he went on.
“And we’ll be, we’ll be, you’re going to be very happy with the job we’re going to do,” he said of his 2026 agenda.
Two attempts were made on Trump’s life during his 2024 presidential campaign.
A bullet clipped Trump’s ear during his rally in Butler, Pa., after gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks, 22, attempted to assassinate the president from a nearby rooftop. The bullet was inches from directly hitting Trump’s head, and he wore a bandage on his ear for days after the attack.
That assassination attempt deeply impacted Trump, he’s said, as he came close to losing his life. He’s spoken frequently about Corey Compartore, the firefighter and father who lost his life shielding his daughter from bullets in the stands of the rally.
Law enforcement has not officially determined the motive for Crooks’ attack and the gunman was killed on the scene. Crooks donated to Democrat ActBlue in 2021 when former President Joe Biden was sworn into office, but he was a registered Republican and voted only once in the 2022 election.
Two months after the Butler shooting, Ryan Wesley Routh, 59, was arrested after pointing a gun at Trump’s Palm Beach golf course while the president was golfing a few holes away.
Routh was unaffiliated with a political party at the time of the attempted assassination, but had said he voted for Trump in 2016 and had since become disillusioned.
“I am unclear how we allowed ourselves to fall into just a two-party system,” Routh wrote in a letter to Politico. “But it infuriates me. My entire life has been plagued by D’s and R’s. It seems not long ago there was a push for the libertarian party and now a green party and maybe Truth party. But for some reason our leaders have not allowed any other party [to] be recognized in any race.”
Trump’s remark about survival also comes after the assassination of TPUSA head Charlie Kirk last month. The conservative debater and Trump ally was shot in the neck while debating students at a campus in Utah, shaking the MAGA world and raising further concern about security.
Kirk was reportedly targeted for spreading “hate,” the gunman confessed to his trans partner.
As far as his other midterm goals, Trump has indicated he will be supporting his allies in key races across the country.
He began raising money “the day after” he defeated rival Kamala Harris in 2024 and has since raised over $1 billion across several initiatives.
The commander in chief told governors in February, “So we’ve got that money, and I got to spend it somewhere … if I can’t spend it on me, I guess that means I’m going to be spending it on some of my friends, right?”
But he expressed some doubt during his OAN interview, saying, “the one thing that I worry about is that, if you look over many, many years, I don’t have the numbers, but the person that wins the presidency always seems to lose the midterms.”
