'I didn't plan it': Israeli flydubai survivor goes viral for striking Trump's iconic pose

Israeli passenger Asaf Rajuan, who helped overpower a terrorist aboard a flydubai aircraft last month, has gone viral after a photo of him with a bloodied face and raised fist was placed beside Donald Trump's iconic image from the July 2024 assassination attempt in Pennsylvania. Rajuan told the Jerusalem Post he did not plan the gesture and found the resemblance amusing. The photo was taken midair after the struggle with the co-pilot who allegedly tried to crash the September 30 Dubai–Tel Aviv flight.

Israeli passenger Asaf Rajuan, who helped overpower a terrorist aboard a flydubai aircraft last month, has become the subject of a viral social media comparison with US President Donald Trump. A photograph of Rajuan with a bloodied face and raised fist was placed alongside Trump's iconic image from the July 2024 assassination attempt in Pennsylvania. The side-by-side comparison shows both men with blood on their faces and their right fists raised in the air. Rajuan told the Jerusalem Post on Sunday that he did not plan the gesture and described the resemblance as amusing. His photograph was taken midair after the struggle with the co-pilot who allegedly attempted to crash the September 30 flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv. Rajuan, a father of two, rushed toward the cockpit after watching his wife and daughters thrown into the air as the plane plunged. Trump's original photograph, taken by Associated Press photographer Evan Vucci on July 13, 2024, captured the then-presidential candidate moments after a bullet grazed his ear during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.