Donald Trump’s detractors are up in arms over the attempted assassination of the former president.

They’re not, however, shocked and repulsed by the heinous act of trying to kill a presidential candidate. They’re upset that Trump’s survival and defiance is getting so much attention while President Joe Biden is flailing with voters.

An Emerson College poll, sponsored by Democrats for the Next Generation, found Trump leading Biden nationally and in seven battleground states, according to a survey published Thursday. It found 46% of registered voters say they support Trump, compared to 42% who chose Biden with 12% undecided.

While some have made, and been called out for, crass comments wishing shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks hadn’t missed, the latest anti-Trump iteration is trying to downplay the assassination attempt.

“Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill weighed in on X: “1st APPEARANCE of ludicrously oversized ear bandage, apparently not needed prior to tonight.” He was lambasted on social media.

Tennis star Martina Navratilova called Trump’s bandage “a PR stunt.”

Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), who served as the White House physician during the Obama and Trump administrations, begged to differ. He has said he examined Trump the day after he was grazed by a bullet.

“The bullet took a little bit off the top of his ear in an area that, just by nature, bleeds like crazy,” Jackson told The New York Times. “The dressing’s bulked up a bit because you need a bit of absorbent. You don’t want to be walking around with bloody gauze on his ear.”

Had Trump deferred to a smaller bandage and potential bleeding, he would no doubt have taken heat as well — for flaunting his injury.

Democrats are not in a good place right now as power players urge an age-worn Biden to step aside and donors close their wallets. The game of “who should/will replace him” is all the rage on Capitol Hill.

Biden’s COVID diagnosis, his third positive in two years, isn’t helping. Meanwhile, the crowds at the Republican National Convention roar for Trump, and many supporters wear ear bandages in a show of solidarity.

This apparently sent MSNBC host Joy Reid around the bend, as she decreed Biden’s COVID diagnosis and the attempted assassination of Trump as virtually the same.

“These two men are both elderly. Donald Trump is an elderly man who, for whatever reason, was given nine seconds to take an iconic photo op during an active shooter situation. Weird situation, we’ll figure that out one day,” Reid said Wednesday. As The Hill reported, Reid said Trump’s survival of the attempt on his life Saturday and attendance at the convention this week “is being conveyed in the media world as a sign of strength.”

She added Biden “is 81 years old and has COVID.”

Reid wondered out loud of Biden, “Should he be fine in a couple of days, doesn’t that convey the exact same thing?”

No. But that won’t stop Democrats and their media allies from working themselves into a lather over anything that shows Trump in a good light.

It’s going to be a long, strange trip to November.

Editorial cartoon by Bob Gorrell (Creators Syndicate)