Some personal thoughts about Trump's cruelty.

[dawg day]

5. I think it's "affluenza"

Really. So many rich people must end up jaded, being removed from most of the ordinary travails of real life. Trump is this way even more so than other really rich people, as he is remarkably lucky in his health, given his lifestyle. Yes, he lost a brother Fred Jr prematurely, but i doubt that bothered him much-- after all, when that brother's infant grandson needed extensive medical help for cerebral palsy, Trump actually tried to cut the family off the insurance policy. (Really-- who would vote for such a man? Then again, this all had to do with his cruel father cutting Fred Jr's family out of the will.)

There are many instances of Trump's almost default cruelty in this Atlantic article.

Anyway, I don't think Trump just doesn't care about the children at the border. I think he gets sadistic pleasure out of their suffering, and all us losers who are so lame we empathize.

Trump is missing something in his makeup, yes-- he doesn't empathize, and I also think he can't love (ask his kids... and wives). But I suspect also he is so jaded after a lifetime where everything went his way. I think he enjoys the suffering of others, like it's a TV show. (Remember he even talked about getting ratings for his "great work" in Puerto Rico.) I think the suffering gives him a charge.