Trump Jr. fires back at MSNBC for questioning father's injury after shooting: 'They can't help themselves'

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Donald Trump Jr. fired back at MSNBC after multiple commentators appeared to question the validity of the Trump assassination attempt and the seriousness of his father's injury.

"He wasn't shot in the face enough for them, it wasn't enough?" he said during "Fox & Friends" on Wednesday. "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."

MSNBC host Ari Melber called Trump's ear bandage a "spectacle" after the former president made his first public appearance since a would-be assassin tried to gun him down during his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.

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"A spectacle for this candidate who we know is, by his own admission, obsessed with assorted spectacles," Melber said. "There is a political quest here to mine and use Donald Trump's injury, and whether his allies and Republicans or the candidate himself do that in a way that overextends their credibility, will be decided by the voters."

MSNBC political analyst Michael Steele also questioned the seriousness of Trump's wound, arguing there are lingering "questions" surrounding the bandage.

"There are a lot of questions around that ear, and yet there's been no response to that," he