I feel sorry for Donald Trump

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

Don't get me wrong - he's an absolutely despicable human being with no apparent redeeming qualities.

He has been very successful financially (after being given a huge hand up by daddy Trump). But if you look at all the ways you can be successful in your life that really matter, he is nothing but an abject failure.

Multiple failed marriages, for instance. His offspring are as hateful and self centered as he is. I wonder who his friends are? Does he even have anyone who he can truly trust and confide in? Is there anyone who loves him?

He spends all of his time now going around and spreading hatred. What an awful way to live. I can't even imagine the maelstrom of bitterness that must be constantly circling in his brain for him to say half the things he says. He must be angry and miserable every second of the day. I don't remember ever seeing him looking even remotely happy.

I wish he had never entered politics. If he somehow does get elected it will be the worst thing that ever happened to this country.

What separates Liberals from conservatives more than anything else is empathy. We have it, they don't. We should never lose sight of that because doing so is a path toward the same self destructive behavior that Trump exhibits every second of his existence.

I pity Donald Trump.

[JFKDem62]

1. Yes, he desperately wants adoration, respect, and national stature. He is headed for big fall.

He is becoming more and more irrational and dangerous.

At the end of the day, he will be a pariah and hated by everyone.
For someone like Trump, that has to be his version of hell.

[Kittycat]

2. Wow. Great post

He has the ability to do good, we all do. But when faced with the choice, he'a blind to it. The sad part is that he's leading others with him down a very dark path.

[In_The_Wind]

3. Quite obviously, Trump is a very unhappy man.

Money can't buy happiness.

[melanyrae62]

4. Yeah, me too

So do I. He is a pathological narcissist (aka sociopath aka psychopath.) Most experts believe these people are created, not born. His parents might have conveyed to him at a young age that he was only lovable if he was better than everyone else. Or perhaps he was badly neglected/abused as an infant or toddler. SOMEthing went wrong for him in his childhood, and I do feel enormously sorry for the manner in which he's chosen to compensate for the harm done to him.

[uppityperson]

5. Welcome to DU. How did you find DU? I am always curious about this.