Donald Trump tells Michigan crowd only consequential presidents get shot and reveals what the Secret Service needs following second assassination attempt

Being president is a dangerous job, Donald Trump told a Michigan crowd of supporters Tuesday night, telling cheering supporters the attempt on his life only proved he mattered.

You know, only consequential presidents get shot at, Trump said at a town hall in Flint where he spoke at length about the dramatic incident.

It was one of several light-hearted comments he sprinkled into his remarks, while pointing to the danger that comes with his public profile. After a pair of assassination attempts, he compared the job to high risk occupations like race car driver and bullfighter. 

What can you do? You have to do what you have to do, right? We have to be brave, otherwise we’re not going to have a country left, Trump said.

Trump then offered a detailed retelling of the attempt on his life, just as he spoke about the first assassination attempt at the Republican convention.

He praised the agent who fired on suspect Ryan Routh, who had been hiding in shrubbery in an AK-47 at Trumps golf course in West Palm Beach. 

There was no talk. He didn’t say: hello what are you doing here please? He took his gun and started shooting him, Trump said approvingly.

He also heaped praise on the eagle eyed woman who snapped photos of the suspects getaway car.

Former President Doanld Trump said only consequential presidents get shot at, and stressed what most impressed him about the response to the second assassination attempt against him

If it werent for that, I’d be walking around saying I wonder where this guy is? Is he in this audience? We would have a maniac out here, Trump said.

Instead, authorities were able to apprehend the suspect within minutes of when he fled the scene.

At a time when the Secret Service is getting slammed for allowing a second attempt in a matter of weeks, Trump backed up the agency, while acknowledging it faces shortages.

‘These guys do a great job.’

‘Now they do need more people and they’ve been complaining about that for a long time,’ Trump said.

His comments came at a town hall event hosted by his former Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who in her opening remarks blamed ‘the left’ for the attack on his life.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders led the town hall. ‘They’ve tried to impeach this president. They’ve tried to throw him in jail. And not once but twice, two would be assassins have tried to take this president down,’ she told the crowd

‘They’ve tried to impeach this president. They’ve tried to throw him in jail. And not once but twice, two would be assassins have tried to take this president down,’ she told the crowd, which booed at the mention.

Trump also took on Vice President Kamala Harris’ and media accusations of rambling.

He did so after giving a long answer to a question about the attempt on his life that veered to Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan and oil drilling in Alaska.

Trump appeared to recognize how far he had strayed. ‘This is the world’s longest answer to an otherwise simple question,’ he told the crowd jokingly.

‘We don’t mind that you give long answers because you actually have something to say,’ the Arkansas governor and his former flack told him.

‘Everybody stays ‘til the end by the way,’ Trump said.

‘If I saw them leaving I’d say and “ladies and gentlemen, make America great again” and I’d get the hell out of there.’