DONALD Trump was targeted with a mobile phone which had been hurled at him as he addressed a gun supporters' rally.

The handset was seen being thrown from the crowd who gathered at a National Rifle Association (NRA) conference in Indianapolis, Indiana, as the President strolled on to patriotic rock music.

5 The phone flying through the air as the President takes to the lectern

As it hurtles through the air, Trump apparently notices it coming his way.

When it lands you can see him glance over.

It is understood the culprit was located and hauled away by police and was taken into custody.

Whoever they are and whatever their motive, they were clearly a bad shot as it missed him by a wide margin.

5 The phone lands off target and bounces away (bottom right)

5 Trump can be seen looking over to where it hit

Later in a strange twist, Trump hurls a pen into the crowd after bombastically announcing that the United States will drop out of the Arms Trade Treaty signed during the Obama administration.

At the meeting Trump vowed to fight for gun rights and implored members of the group struggling to maintain its influence to rally behind his re-election bid.

Speaking to the group for his third straight year, Trump declared himself a "champion for the Second Amendment."

"It's under assault," he said of the constitutional right to bear arms.

"But not while we're here."

5 Reversal... later on Trump threw a pen at the crowd

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And Trump told the thousands in the crowd: "You better get out there and vote," saying of the 2020 election, "It seems like it's a long ways away. It's not."

The nation's largest gun rights organisation was pivotal to Trump's victory in 2016.

But three years later, the group is limping toward the next election divided and diminished.

5 Trump’s cell phone attack was reminiscent of the time a Iraqi journalist throws a shoe at Donald Trump's republican predecessor in 2008

Moment Iraqi throws shoe at George W Bush

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