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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDoes anybody feel sorry for Trump?
I saw a video on the local news tonight of his address this morning after the shooting in Alexandria, VA.
Trump was struggling to read words someone else apparently had written for him, not struggling due to emotion, but struggling because he was having trouble reading.
At times he appeared to squint, trying to see the words, stumbling over them like some child asked to read a lesson out loud.
Why couldnt he just come out before the camera, say a few words from the heart .....
Oh, wait. I guess I just answered my own question. Damn!
(He should probably lay off the tanning booth for a while too. He's got that orange glow set on high)
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)Next question...
mcar
(42,302 posts)Next question?
Autumn
(45,057 posts)lpbk2713
(42,753 posts)He's a suit filled with s**t.
hatrack
(59,584 posts).
Leith
(7,809 posts)The long answer is "fuck no!"
athena
(4,187 posts)He's a narcissist. Narcissists and sociopaths don't feel things the way the rest of us do. Narcissists feel horrible inside, but since they are incapable of feeling empathy, compassion, or love, that "horrible feeling" is not what the rest of us feel when we feel horrible inside. They cover up that emptiness with ideas of grandeur, so they're not even aware of how they really feel.
IMO, he fact that you and I occasionally feel sorry for Trump means one of two things:
1. We have too much empathy (if such a thing is possible), or:
2. We were emotionally abused as children, which makes us feel sorry for abusive people.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)I fear you missed my sarcasm.
I hate Trump with every ounce of my body,
and I'm a BIG guy.
athena
(4,187 posts)And here I thought you were a sensitive person. Instead, you're someone who is proud of your insensitivity.
One of the things that are destroying this country is Americans buying into the right-wing rhetoric that says that that empathy and sensitivity are characteristics that deserve mocking and contempt. Trump is nothing but a culmination of that sick philosophy. Welcome to ignore.
nolabels
(13,133 posts)Being blinded by other emotions can take one down a very dark path. Much would be the idea of hating spiny cactus, black widows and rattlesnakes. They are only dangerous when the unobservant lets themselves be entangled into such
herding cats
(19,564 posts)gademocrat7
(10,656 posts)He is despicable.
struggle4progress
(118,280 posts)Show me his opinions, which convince me he's a louse
And I'll show you a dirtbag, with so many reasons why
And there but for fortune go you or I
JenniferJuniper
(4,510 posts)The original
Response to left-of-center2012 (Original post)
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Laffy Kat
(16,377 posts)Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)Not really. I just wanted to see what it felt like to tell a whopping bald faced lie.
Ilsa
(61,694 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Not in the least. Sorry.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)He is deluded, insecure, unhappy, paranoid, envious, fearful, lazy, arrogant, and angry. So many negative emotions. He was born into wealth with a great many advantages, but what really has he accomplished? He is the object of ridicule and hatred worldwide. He is not a happy man. Yes, I feel sorry for him.
QED
(2,747 posts)But no, I don't feel sorry for him.
FSogol
(45,480 posts)I certainly don't feel sorry for the pos.
MiddleClass
(888 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)He has contacts.
You know, those Russian contacts.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)I hear ya!
LuvLoogie
(6,995 posts)I loathe a media (more than he is now) that treats him with fawning deference, even as he expressed such arrogant and loathsome attitudes throughout his celebrity.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,327 posts)I can't help but feel compassion for a person so hurt or broken that they can't grow and only understand hurting others. I find stories of his childhood deeply sad.
LuvLoogie
(6,995 posts)Gothmog
(145,130 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,976 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,412 posts)I think I have a voice-actuated remote control, because my screaming at the TV seems to coincide with a channel change.
JenniferJuniper
(4,510 posts)He can eat shit and die yesterday.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)'Yesterday' clinched it.
GoCubsGo
(32,080 posts)I feel sorry that we're stuck with this corrupt, incompetent jackass, and I feel sorry for us for having so hateful ignoramuses who were willing to vote for this treasonous asshole.
3catwoman3
(23,973 posts)Fooking. Bit.
luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)who are going to be affected by his hatred and bad decisions
samnsara
(17,622 posts)MiddleClass
(888 posts)He was struggling, I found myself pronouncing words along with him,
then I realized what he was again
Ilsa
(61,694 posts)Kaleva
(36,294 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)onecent
(6,096 posts)mnmoderatedem
(3,726 posts)hell no
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)I actually had to stop and think for a second.
Well, I've been up since 5:30 this morning.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)They live shallow, meaningless lives, trapped in walls of their own making. I feel sorry for everyone who has to deal with them too, which is all the rest of us.
RussBLib
(9,006 posts)Ever to "take" the office of president.
Justice is overdue for this clown
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,681 posts)he's been successful on TV, and is now the president of the United States, but with all that he's empty. He requires constant reassurance of his own worth; he thrives on (indeed, requires) the applause of approving crowds; he demands loyalty and fulsome adoration from his staff; and he can't bear to be thwarted, contradicted or criticized. He collects media articles about himself and he can't even pay attention to written security briefings unless his name is mentioned. He doesn't give to charity. He's on his third trophy wife, who doesn't seem to like him much, but might be wondering when she'll be traded in for a newer model. How it must utterly suck to be so emotionally needy that your every waking hour is spent seeking the approval of others!
SAD.
All I can say is I'd rather be me with not much money, but good friends and family - people who seem to care about me - and a purposeful existence that doesn't depend on being fueled by constant flattery, than a person who's got money and power and nothing else. I'd feel sorry for such a wretched character if he weren't doing so much damage.
ecstatic
(32,687 posts)angry and miserable. Fuck him.
Hekate
(90,646 posts)blue neen
(12,319 posts)No. Unequivocally, no. No, no, and hell no.
Kleveland
(1,257 posts)Somebody needed to say it!
Warpy
(111,249 posts)he doesn't appear to be particularly tortured by his obvious personality flaws and intellectual shortcomings, so I'm having a great deal of trouble summoning much compassion.
I would hate to go through life that limited, even with all the money in the world.
Stuart G
(38,419 posts)I have thought this since long before the election. I read sometimes he wears them, when watching TV, but I have never seen him with them on. Too stupid to realize how harmful not seeing clearly is. It is just part of the con job, that is no longer working.
bdamomma
(63,837 posts)this man is just out for himself and his rich buddies, and destroying the country, feel bad for him????? NOOOO!!
nancy1942
(635 posts)MFM008
(19,806 posts)UTUSN
(70,683 posts)oasis
(49,376 posts)nini
(16,672 posts)...........
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)enid602
(8,615 posts)I feel sorry for him a little; no parent should have to see his/her children go to jail.
MiltonBrown
(322 posts)LeftInTX
(25,258 posts)dchill
(38,473 posts)(who didn't vote for him.)