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Trump Is Still Living Every Week Like It’s Shark Week

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18.09.2026

There are a lot of things worrying everyday Americans right now, from the affordability crisis to climate change to the possibility that AI is going to kill us all.

Donald Trump does not fear any of these things. If fact, he’s been touting his indifference to these issues so much that people are wondering if he’s trying to make his party lose the midterms.

But there’s one thing that does terrify our pathologically fearless leader: sharks.

During a Rose Garden dinner celebrating his executive order loosening hunting-and-fishing restrictions on Thursday, Trump mused about whether he’d rather be electrocuted or eaten by a shark.

Trump: I'm in an electric boat and I see it going down and the water's pouring in, so I know I'm going to be electrocuted, but 5 yards away there are sharks. Do I take the electrocution or do I go swimming with the sharks, and you know what my answer was? I'll take the…........

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