Of course not, Trump is incapable of feeling empathy about anyone or anything that isn’t him.
The only surprise is him admitting it out loud.
I find it even more surprising he managed a single complete sentence with absolutely no trace of a lie contained therein…
Hateful and short as that sentence may be. 🤷♂️ 🤡
In exceptional cases a sentence that is hateful enough does not have to contain any lie.
The biggest surprise for me is in how America just stands by and says nothing about it
If Biden had been up there saying that about a political opponent … it would make headlines all over the world.
Trump does it and his behaviour is so normalized that everyone just shrugs their shoulders and moves on.
These idiots in positions of power saying and doing whatever they want aren’t the problem … it’s everyone else who just accept it all.
The difference, as a rule, is Democrats CARE what people say. Look at what happened with Al Franken. If he had been a Republican he would have said “It’s a joke, get over it.” and would be in office today.
They care to a point. Most people want a populist anti-elite approach to politics and messaging but that’s off limits. In reality, what you see is the following dynamic:
- Republicans get their cues by testing various talking points on their base to see what sticks. They respond to the response of their base and double and triple down on the most popular. So in a sense get their policy cues from their base, but I left out one crucial thing: they’re extremely disingenuous about it because the talking points are mostly just culture war tabloid style outrage bait — moral panics filled with lies and half-truths. Still, to the common Republican voter, this seems like a dialogue.
- Democrats could do the same thing but with real stuff. Even appeals to emotion are fine as long as you’re being truthful, because a lot of the time you need to meet people where they are. But Democrats do not talk to their voters at all, they despise them and feel entitled to their vote because hey, look how bad the Republicans are. But then where do they get the policy if they don’t talk to voters? Oh, why, the Republicans of course! They triangulate a “common sense” position between their ivory tower ideas (mostly just “civility”), the Republicans and the (pre-programmed) Republican base. Except for the populism, you see, because that’s “going low” and they’re going to be the adults in the room who “go high”.
I hate this worthless octogenarian club of a party, sometimes more than the Republicans.
(I apologize that this turned into a rant. I do want Dems to win, I just want them to stop being, you know, them.)
How is that surprising? Saying the quiet part out loud has been his entire political existence.
Hard disagree - him saying it out loud seems entirely on brand for him.
That’s not true. He empathizes with all the crooks he’s pardoning.
Cause he’s a crook.
I don’t think that’s empathy, he wants something from them or already got something from them.
Trump’s remarks were a far cry from his statement in the immediate aftermath of Biden’s diagnosis.
“Melania and I are saddened to hear about Joe Biden’s recent medical diagnosis,” he wrote. “We extend our warmest and best wishes to Jill and the family, and we wish Joe a fast and successful recovery.”
There’s no way Trump actually wrote that
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/trump-cut-medical-benefits-his-nephews-infant-child/
Trump cut the medical benefits to his own nephew.
Pretty sure he didn’t want to fuck his nephew.
I’m pretty sure Trump doesn’t want to fuck Biden either
What have you done
Lol. You’re next, Trump. You old ass fuck. You won’t outlive the majority of this country. You already lost your marbles, you chickenshit bag of bones. You can’t outlive the youth that wants you and your policies gone.
There it is, I remember reading his Truth Social post where he was nice to Biden about it when it first came out and going “There’s no way he doesn’t say something horrible once he’s asked live on camera.”
That was far, far too eloquently written to not have been a staffer.
Use ten words in your post without CAPSLOCK if you’re under duress, Mr. President.
Trump is a dick. Nothing new.
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Such class. Such compassion. What presidential behavior, from a true leader.
And if you don’t think that’s snark, I’ve got these genuine imitation gold coins with my face on them, only $199.99.
Consider me unsurprised
It’s never the one who deserves getting ass cancer…
That is cold. I wouldn’t think that even about my enemies.
You have more restraint than I do. I wish only the most deserved forms of cancer onto Trump and co
I do wish a lot of terrible things but once something is real, I usually don’t enjoy it.
You don’t have to enjoy it. But the world would be objectively better off without that piece of shit.
Royl Cohn taught him well
Same
