Biology professor is slammed over sick joke about Trump’s assassination attempt [Video]

23:37 EDT 14 Jul 2024, updated 08:09 EDT 15 Jul 2024

A Canadian biology professor shocked social media with their comment on the assassination attempt against Donald Trump. 

Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old would-be assassin who shot Donald Trump, opened fire at the former president with an AR-style rifle from a roof 130 yards from the rally stage in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday at 6.15pm. 

Many have used the attempt on a former president’s life to ask for toned down rhetoric from both sides of the political spectrum.

Shoshanna Jacobs, a biology professor at Ontario’s University of Guelph, received condemnation from all sides after quote-tweeting a video of the shooting, when noting how nearly Trump missed being directly hit.

Jacobs – a professor of integrative biology – wrote on the social media platform X: ‘When 4 inches really matters’.