Trump quips golf is a very dangerous game reveals what he wouldve done to would-be assassin in rare late-night show appearance

Former President Donald Trump joked Wednesday that “golf is a very dangerous game” in a rare late-night talk show appearance just days after the Secret Service foiled a second assassination attempt against the 2024 Republican nominee. Trump, 78, yukked it up with the co-hosts of Fox News’ “Gutfeld!” in an appearance taped hours before his raucous campaign rally on Long Island. “Well Mr.P, how’s your golf game?” comedian Greg Gutfeld asked the former president.“Well, I haven’t been thinking about it too much lately,” Trump responded.

“I always said golf is a very dangerous game.” “Especially if they’re playing with you,” Gutfeld quipped. “Yeah, it’s true,” Trump said.“It’s pretty sad.”The 45th president dodged a second attempt on his life Sunday after Secret Service agents spotted a rifle barrel poking out of some bushes along one of the holes of his Palm Beach, Fla., golf course, as Trump was on a green a few hundred yards away from the sniper. “If they had told you that the shooter was there would you have tried to take him out with your 3 wood?” Gutfeld later asked Trump. “I think so,” Trump responded.

“If I knew.”  “Actually, the Secret Service did a great job,” he added.“They saw the barrel of a gun – big gun – and it came out through bushes.

And how many people would see that?” “He really was exceptional to have done it,” Trump said of the eagle-eyed agent. “We’ve been going through a lot of it,” he said of being the target of would-be assassins in Butler, Pa., and Palm Beach.“We’re getting very good at it.

But I don’t want to say that too loudly.” When asked how he processes the scary incidents, Trump indicated that he’s reconciled that “being president is a very dangerous job.”“With a president, 6% or 7% [get assassinated],” he noted. The former president revealed that he doesn’t think “about mortality” but has thought “more about God” si...