Remember when Trump appeared to show some regret following a call with Biden?

Donald Trump has spent years attacking Joe Biden both personally as well as politically. However, Trump appeared to have briefly shifted his view of Biden after he spoke with President Biden by phone following the second assassination attempt on his life.

On September 17th, Trump appeared to have shown a rare but very brief moment of humility while he was on the campaign trail. Let's take a look at what he said and why it was astonishing to some. 

While speaking to a crowd at a town hall event in Michigan, the former president stated that both President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were nice to him in his post-assassination attempt phone call with the two Democratic leaders. 

However, Trump seemed quite confused about how Biden treated him over the phone and joked with his audience in Michigan that he wished the President had never called him. It may be possible Trump was feeling a bit of remorse.

“He was so nice to me yesterday. In one way I sort of wish the call wasn’t made, because I do feel a little — he’s so nice. ‘I’m so sorry about what happened,’ and all that,” Trump said according to The Hill. 

“Same with Kamala today. She could not have been nicer,” Trump added. However, the moment was short-lived since he went on to say: “But the fact is, we have to have people that are respected by the opponent.”

The Hill also reported that earlier in Trump’s event, he said that he had had a “very nice call” with Vice President Harris, which earned him boos from the crowd, to which Trump responded: “No, it was very nice.”

Trump’s would-be second assassin, 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh, was charged on September 16th following an incident that saw Routh push the muzzle of a rifle through the perimeter barrier at Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course. 

Routh was fired upon by Secret Service agents and fled the scene, but he was captured later in the day. However, in the wake of the apparent assassination attempt, Trump was not very generous to Biden and Harris, whom he blamed for the incident. 

"He believed the rhetoric of Biden and Harris, and he acted on it," Trump said of Routh and his assassination attempt at the time according to Fox News. This was rhetoric that only fanned the flames of the partisan divide in the United States.

“Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at, when I am the one who is going to save the country and they are the ones that are destroying the country — both from the inside and out,” Trump continued. 

Whether or not Trump felt bad for how he handled himself following the second attempt on his life after his calls with Biden and Harris is still unknown, but when it comes to the former president, anything could be possible—even a little remorse. 

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