Beto (phony name to indicate Hispanic heritage) O’Rourke, who is embarrassed by my last visit to the Great State of Texas, where I trounced him, and is now even more embarrassed by polling at 1% in the Democrat Primary, should respect the victims & law enforcement - & be quiet!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 7, 2019
Also:
.@sundarpichai of Google was in the Oval Office working very hard to explain how much he liked me, what a great job the Administration is doing, that Google was not involved with China’s military, that they didn’t help Crooked Hillary over me in the 2016 Election, & that they...
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 6, 2019
... are NOT planning to illegally subvert the 2020 Election despite all that has been said to the contrary. It all sounded good until I watched Kevin Cernekee, a Google engineer, say terrible things about what they did in 2016 and that they want to “Make sure that Trump losses...
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 6, 2019
...in 2020.” Lou Dobbs stated that this is a fraud on the American public. @peterschweizer stated with certainty that they suppressed negative stories on Hillary Clinton, and boosted negative stories on Donald Trump. All very illegal. We are watching Google very closely!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 6, 2019
He's doing president-as-healer today, in a manner of speaking, but he struggles to pretend that he finds it in any way meaningful or moving.
I realize that he's led a life in which no one has ever rewarded him for expressing empathy or any other "soft" emotion -- feelings of this kind wouldn't have gotten him parental love (especially from his father), wouldn't have been required at any workplace (because he's never worked outside the family business), and don't seem to have been useful in his love life or his friendships, where he exclusively played on his reputation as a cutthroat, cocksure rich guy.
I don't expect Trump, a malignant narcissist, to actually care about other people's feelings. But it never occurs to him that appearing empathetic might confer power on him. Bill Clinton seemed to feel people's pain, as did Barack Obama, and they won reelection handily, then left office beloved and admired. George W. Bush hugged the teenage daughter of a woman who'd died in the World Trade Center on 9/11, and the hug became an ad that some people believe was responsible for his reelection in 2004.
Trump has no feelings, but you'd think he'd want this as one more weapon he can wield in the quest for dominance. But he doesn't even give money to charity, the usual way billionaire narcissists pretend to care. How has he lived 73 years without being aware that this would be useful to him? Or is his fear of appearing weak just so absolute that he can't even bring himself to fake compassion?
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