Has Anyone Found Trump's Soul? Anyone?

[Zorro]

He’s not rising to the challenge of the coronavirus pandemic. He’s shriveling into nothingness.

Do you remember President George W. Bush’s remarks at Ground Zero in Manhattan after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks? I can still hear him speaking of national grief and national pride. This was before all the awful judgment calls and fatal mistakes, and it doesn’t excuse them. But it mattered, because it reassured us that our country’s leader was navigating some of the same emotional currents that we were.

Do you remember President Barack Obama’s news conference after the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., that left 28 people, including 20 children, dead? I do. Freshest in my memory is how he fought back tears. He was hurting. He cared. And while we couldn’t bank on new laws to prevent the next massacre, we could at least hold on to that.

One more question: Do you remember the moment when President Trump’s bearing and words made clear that he grasped not only the magnitude of this rapidly metastasizing pandemic but also our terror in the face of it?

It passed me by, maybe because it never happened.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/opinion/trump-coronavirus-empathy.html

[yellowcanine]

1. Putin has what is left of it in a lockbox.

[lagomorph777]

6. Next to Trump's balls.

But Melanoma has his penis locked up separately.

[PJMcK]

2. Great column and here's the end

I can hear his admirers grumble that he doesn’t do camera-perfect emotions, that Obama was just a better actor, that Trump is the more authentic man.

To which I answer: What’s the point of having a showman for a president if he can’t put on the right kind of show? Performances count, even if they’re just performances. And Trump clearly isn’t averse to artifice. Just look at his hair.

A cheap shot? I’m feeling cheap. A loss of life and livelihoods on this scale will do that to you.

As of this writing, at least 9,600 people with the coronavirus have died in the United States. That’s more than three times the number killed in the Sept. 11 attacks. New York State alone reported 630 new deaths on Saturday . No school shooting has taken even a small faction of as many lives.

And while I’m not looking to Trump for any panacea, is it too much to ask for some sign that the dying has made an impression on him, that the crying has penetrated his carapace and that he’s thinking about something other than his ratings? I watch. I wait. I suspect I’ll be doing that forever.

[lagomorph777]

7. Three times as many as 911; twice as many as our "revenge" war against a 3rd-party (Iraq).

Nearly all of that blood is on the hands of Trump and his fellow Russiapublicans.

[Atticus]

3. Yes. The Chupacabra stole it and the Roc flew him over the Atlantic where

he dropped it into Loch Ness. There was a swirl on the surface as it was pulled under and consumed by Nessie.

[Laelth]

4. A pointless exercise ...

No point in looking for that which no longer exists.



-Laelth

[BeckyDem]

5. Yes. The Party of Sociopaths. It's not just Trump.

[Blue_Tires]

8. The sad part is Trump is 100% as advertised

it's not like he even pretended to have a soul during the election campaign... Folks knew damn well what they were voting for.

[Skittles]

9. OK for the record

I was NEVER reassured by that warmongering bastard Dubya and I was DISGUSTED by the 90% who believed his bullshit. People still die EVERY DAY because of that misplaced trust.

[machoneman]

10. It's tiny, like his dick! And both have mushroon tops. Ask his main squeeze...................