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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump never had a friend
Stop for just a moment and think about going through life without ever having had a friend. Seriously. Stop reading for just a few seconds and think about it.
Trump has spent his whole life surrounded by sycophants, -- those from whom he wanted something, -- or those who wanted something from him.
And my guess is that all of his blood relatives fear him and/or despise his existence, but none of them consider him a friend.
I don't think I've ever known anyone who didn't have a friend. No matter who or what they were, no matter their circumstance in life, everyone I've ever known had at least one person they could call a friend.
Imagine going through life without at least one friend.
Yet, Donald Trump has done exactly that. He's gone through 70 plus years using and abusing every other human being with whom he's come into contact, and many millions of others that he never met.
It seems that should be worthy of pity. But Donald Trump long ago used up any pity that any fool may have had for him. His MAGAts aren't his friends. They're his worshipers. No Republican is his friend. They despise him and live in fear of his base. Those who surround him aren't his friends. They're in it for whatever they can steal for themselves.
A human being who never had at least one single friend is both a horror and extremely rare. But don't waste an ounce of pity on Trump. If any human being ever deserved to be friendless, alone and shunned in this world, it's him.
Wounded Bear
(58,605 posts)Quote from an NCIS-LA episode from the cynical cop friend of Deeks. Of course he followed it with, "What do you want?"
PufPuf23
(8,756 posts)Trump has no future once out of office and removed from the WH. The revulsion towards him will limit his post POTUS movements even if never jailed. His family will turn on tRump even, he will be reviled in any setting.
He is going to get ever desperate and dangerous until gone.
intrepidity
(7,275 posts)At least most antisocial people without friends *usually* have great non-human friends.
But not Trump.
spooky3
(34,407 posts)Funtatlaguy
(10,863 posts)Which excludes Trump who has no heart and isnt human.
spooky3
(34,407 posts)once told me he had many acquaintances but no one that he considered a friend.
Gee, I wonder why...
keithbvadu2
(36,676 posts)Any school chums ever had a good word for him?
I don't remember hearing of any.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,730 posts)Poor Barron. He is the one I actually pray for.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,614 posts)But it's probably true that nobody really loves him, and he doesn't love anybody. Malaria seems to be attached to him for her own narcissistic reasons but I don't think she actually loves him. His kids seem to be suffering from advanced cases of Stockholm Syndrome but I can't imagine that they will grieve sincerely when he's gone. And it's abundantly obvious that any love his withered soul is capable of is reserved exclusively for himself. Friends? Only hangers-on and people with mutual interests.
Trump is an empty and pathetic person. He doesn't have friends, people who love him, pets who love him, the enjoyment of anything other than golf (and that only so he can show off his properties and cheat at the game) and television shows that feature him. He doesn't go to concerts or plays or art museums (he has a fake Renoir which he insists is real and which he appreciates only a status symbol); he doesn't enjoy nature; he doesn't read; he doesn't even enjoy excellent cuisine. Even his taste in interior decorating is strictly gold-leafed dictator chic, chosen only for the display of wealth and not for any aesthetic value. Everything he has and does is only for show and is therefore hollow and meaningless. He's living in a Hell of his own creation.
Cyrano
(15,027 posts)You've described an empty, soulless creature who possess nothing but self love. He has lived a meaningless life, contributed nothing, and is nothing more than a stain on the human species.
ZZenith
(4,115 posts)Closest he ever came to having a friend.
Cyrano
(15,027 posts)Or was he just another enabler?
ZZenith
(4,115 posts)Cyrano
(15,027 posts)That's not friendship. It's a shared depravity.
ZZenith
(4,115 posts)PatSeg
(47,284 posts)He likes to frequently refer to certain foreign leaders as, "He's a good friend of mine", but no one really likes him and he knows that. The man is so pathetically needy, but he makes friendship impossible. Eventually, he finds reasons to throw everyone under the bus.
Once he no longer has any power or money, he'll find out that he doesn't even have any fake friends anymore.
world wide wally
(21,739 posts)Anyone who would tolerate such an obnoxious pig would have to have many of the same qualities and I couldn't take it.
Period.
OLDMDDEM
(1,569 posts)He is an asshole!
Laelth
(32,017 posts)As many as 1 in every 8 persons suffers from a Cluster B personality disorder. None of them have friends. They have people that they use. Its purely transactional. Its not friendship.
-Laelth