{"id":3674,"date":"2026-02-18T18:51:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=3674"},"modified":"2026-02-18T18:51:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:51:53","slug":"kansas-city-chiefs-kicker-harrison-butker-delivers-blunt-4-word-message-after-donald-trump-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=3674","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Chiefs Kicker Harrison Butker Delivers Blunt 4-Word Message After Donald Trump Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/kansas-city-chiefs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a>\u00a0kicker Harrison Butker had a brief message for Americans following the shocking attempt on Donald Trump\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1772597\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The former United States President was speaking at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday when a shooter fired multiple shots, with one of them hitting him in the right ear. While Trump was able to stand right back up and pump a fist into the air, a spectator wasn\u2019t so lucky.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1772597\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">TIME\u2019s new cover: Donald Trump survives shooting with nation on edge <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eQxgKW1ezt\">https:\/\/t.co\/eQxgKW1ezt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SwfZcm3V2z\">pic.twitter.com\/SwfZcm3V2z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TIME (@TIME) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TIME\/status\/1812508938639642835?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The shooter, who was killed by a Secret Service sniper,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c3gw58wv4e9o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has been identified<\/a>\u00a0as Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Harrison Butker, meanwhile, returned to the spotlight after he was called out by Serena Williams during the ESPYs on Thursday night, with the former tennis star telling him he shouldn\u2019t watch women\u2019s sports following his controversial speech.<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs kicker took to X\/Twitter to deliver a brief message after the assassination attempt on Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1772596\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City Chiefs\u00a0kicker Harrison Butker had a brief message for Americans following the shocking attempt on Donald Trump\u2019s life. The former United States President was speaking at a rally in &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3675,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674\/revisions\/3675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}