Two Florida men have chosen to immortalize the recent shooting incident involving former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, by getting tattoos. The event, where Trump narrowly escaped an assassination attempt, has made headlines globally.
Franco Gomez, a tattoo artist from Florida, has started the process of tattooing one man’s leg with an image from a newspaper clipping depicting Trump’s clenched fist as Secret Service agents surround him after the shooting. The session lasted six hours, and Gomez still has more work to do to complete the tattoo.
“We were incredibly close to a different outcome. If you want a tattoo that captures a significant moment in American history, that’s the one,” Gomez said in an interview with NewsNation.
Many tattoo artists, like Hannah Cash from After The Fallout Tattoos, expressed surprise not at the tattoos themselves but at the incident that inspired them. Cash recounted how she was tattooing a man who, upon hearing news of the shooting, immediately decided to commemorate the event with a tattoo symbolizing resilience in adversity.
“He got this tattoo to show strength in challenging times,” Cash explained to NewsNation.
The incident unfolded rapidly, and within two hours of the news breaking, the man had a permanent reminder of the event etched into his skin, featuring the word “fight.”