Moment mobile phone is thrown at Donald Trump at gun rally
Trump was taking to the stage of the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association when someone in the crowd decided to target him
DONALD Trump was targeted with a mobile phone which had been hurled at him as he addressed a gun supporters’ rally.
The handset was seen being thrown from the crowd who gathered at a National Rifle Association (NRA) conference in Indianapolis, Indiana, as the President strolled on to patriotic rock music.
As it hurtles through the air, Trump apparently notices it coming his way.
When it lands you can see him glance over.
It is understood the culprit was located and hauled away by police and was taken into custody.
Whoever they are and whatever their motive, they were clearly a bad shot as it missed him by a wide margin.
Later in a strange twist, Trump hurls a pen into the crowd after bombastically announcing that the United States will drop out of the Arms Trade Treaty signed during the Obama administration.
At the meeting Trump vowed to fight for gun rights and implored members of the group struggling to maintain its influence to rally behind his re-election bid.
Speaking to the group for his third straight year, Trump declared himself a “champion for the Second Amendment.”
“It’s under assault,” he said of the constitutional right to bear arms.
“But not while we’re here.”
And Trump told the thousands in the crowd: “You better get out there and vote,” saying of the 2020 election, “It seems like it’s a long ways away. It’s not.”
The nation’s largest gun rights organisation was pivotal to Trump’s victory in 2016.
But three years later, the group is limping toward the next election divided and diminished.
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