Tennis legend Martina Navratilova is among those who think former President Donald Trump’s ear bandage after an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania over the weekend is over the top.
The seriousness of Trump’s injury after a would-be assassin tried to shoot him in Butler, Pa., at a rally on Saturday has been questioned by some.
MSNBC host Ari Melber, for instance, has labeled the ear bandage Trump wore during his first public appearance after the incident a “spectacle.”
Navratilova responded to a post on X featuring a picture of Trump with the ear bandage. The post questioned the bandage’s necessity.
“A good friend of mine is the charge nurse (Level IV FNP) at a major trauma center in a huge city,” the post, made on Thursday, July 18, read.
“She says there’s absolutely no need to dress an ear wound like this unless half his ear was blown off. And even then, it wouldn’t look like this.”
Navratilova agreed, calling the bandage a “PR stunt” by Trump, recalling noticing Trump without the bandage a day after the shooting.
“Of course – this is obviously a PR stunt – the day after the shooting he had no dressing on his ear… not even a band-Aid,” Navratilova tweeted.
Navratilova did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
Donald Trump Jr. appeared on “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday, criticizing MSNBC for questioning the authenticity of his father’s injury.
“He wasn’t shot in the face enough for them. It wasn’t enough?” he said.
“That’s the point. They can’t help themselves. The Trump Derangement Syndrome is real. It’s so asinine that they could say that… You see the photograph at the time. There’s blood everywhere.”
The bandage Trump wore was seen on several delegates at the Republican National Convention (RNC), done in solidarity with him.
Arizona’s Joe Neglia was among those wearing the bandage.
“Yesterday when he came in, and there was that eruption of love in the room, I thought, ‘What can I do to honor the truth? What can I possibly do?’” Neglia told Fox News Digital.
“And then I saw the bandage and I thought, ‘I can do that.’ So, I put it on simply to honor Trump and to express sympathy with him and unity with him.”
The RNC saw many Republicans rallying behind Trump, thanking God for protecting him from the assassination attempt.
