Trump Jokes Glass Only Protects Him From Media

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

77% : Trump tongue-in-cheek moment was in a speech that featured many new off-script moments as Trump was characteristically charged in the campaign's final hours before Tuesday's election, returning to Pennsylvania, a state where he was once nearly assassinated July 13.
52% : "This has nothing to do with corruption, but it has everything to do with intelligence," Trump said of the vulnerabilities at his Lititz, Pennsylvania, campaign rally Sunday morning, which aired in part on Newsmax and in full on the free Newsmax2 streaming platform.
41% : After the media picked up on the remarks out of context, the Trump campaign issued a statement denouncing the efforts to smear Trump in the campaign's final hours.
39% : "When you watch me tonight: 'The president doesn't look that good,'" Trump joked.
37% : "The problem with that glass is I don't look great on television when you have a four-inch piece of glass that a howitzer can't go through," Trump continued.
36% : "I don't need it here, but where I do think I need the piece is here," Trump said, going back to the line of sight where a car horn was blaring and he joked was where a would-be assassin would shoot from.
34% : I don't need a piece here fellas," Trump joked, pointing directly ahead to the media.
25% : Ultimately, Trump suggested the images of his rally should be unobstructed, assassination attempts be damned.
22% : "Trump was clearly joking about the glass needing to protect him from the media angle.
20% : He was actually looking out for their welfare, far more than his own!"Trump also joked the placement of the glass between him and the media cameras was to just make him look bad before Tuesday's election.

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