President Donald Trump has become the most targeted U.S.leader on record among both sitting and former presidents, facing threat-related incidents roughly every two to three months in recent years.Trump has survived three major assassination attempts and nearly a dozen other threat-related incidents over the past two years alone.
Overall, he has faced nearly 20 known threats since first taking office in 2017.By comparison, every other U.S.president targeted in an assassination attempt faced just one, except President Gerald R.
Ford, who survived two.Those presidents include Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, James A.
Garfield, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D.Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John F.
Kennedy, Gerald R.Ford, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W.
Bush and Barack Obama.Four of those presidents — Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy — were killed.FROM TRAINED ASSASSINS TO RALLY STAGE RUSHERS, HERE'S EVERY KNOWN ATTEMPT ON TRUMP'S LIFE SINCE 2016Photos of the assassination attempt against then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump are displayed during the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Thursday, July 18, 2024.
(Jae C.Hong/AP Photo)Seven known threat-related incidents occurred during Trump's first presidency, while four occurred during his 2024 campaign, including two assassination attempts.
His second presidency has already seen eight additional incidents, including a third assassination attempt.July 2024: Trump's first assassination attempt came during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, when a gunman opened fire from a nearby rooftop, killing one spectator and critically wounding two others.The shooter, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, struck Trump in the upper right ear before being killed by a Secret Service sniper.September 2024: Two months later, Secret Service agents spotted a gunman hiding in bushes with a rifle near Trump's Florida golf course while the then-presidential candidate...