President Trump was hit in the face with a microphone while talking to reporters Friday.
WATCH: Reporter accidentally pushes microphone into Trump's face pic.twitter.com/NhswllZ0QW
— BNO News Live (@BNODesk) March 14, 2025
“She just became a big story tonight,” said Trump taking it lightly.
While many are calling it an accident, critics online are raising alarm over the incident as it highlights a significant failure in protecting the Commander in Chief.
An assassin with a ricin tipped microphone (an amount of only a few specs of dust would suffice) could kill the president in this manner.
— Muckraker.com (@realmuckraker) March 15, 2025
This is a security failure.
How many attempts on Donald Trump's life must be made before Secret Service tightens up?pic.twitter.com/HlLjzPD2TL
Trump gets hit in the face with a mic
— Jacob (@jcubhilton) March 14, 2025
That could have fentanyl or other poison on it. It could be a disguised spear. I hope they are checking these journalists thoroughly pic.twitter.com/zaVowOMlSX
How on earth did a reporter get that boom mic so close to Trump’s face?
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) March 14, 2025
This just doesn’t seem right.
Security should tighten up.
Embarrassing for the press.
pic.twitter.com/VJK789Lc9y
Another user reminded the public how this incident brings to mind how North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un assassinated his brother:
Remember how Kim Jong Un killed his brother? Someone wiped a harmless cloth with VX nerve gas on his face.
— Brosa Parks (@Parabellum2021) March 15, 2025
Kim Jong-nam was at the airport’s Terminal 2, preparing to board a flight to Macau, where he had been living in exile. Around 9:00 a.m., two women approached him near a… https://t.co/jwHZ7EWwWE
An additional angle appears to show who was holding the mic.
The journalist who hit Trump with her “Big Mic” last night at Joint Base Andrews before he boarded AF1. We need names. pic.twitter.com/yziJJKs6l7
— JKash 🍊MAGA Queen (@JKash000) March 15, 2025
Trump’s very tangible encounter with the press brings to mind a still not officially explained incident with former President Biden where footage captured him going through a microphone at multiple angles.
Remember this? Here's Biden moving through press microphones. At multiple angles. pic.twitter.com/ApIwekY86h
— Ben Warren (@BenInfoWarren) March 15, 2025
More: pic.twitter.com/imYts2SbEK
— Ben Warren (@BenInfoWarren) March 15, 2025
The contrast between Biden’s autopen presidency where he hosted brazenly fake encounters with the press to President Trump’s is staggering.