Trump on some tangent now about how he can't go out to dinner with friends anymore.

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27. I think he knows that he doesn't

Trump approximates human behavior. He is enough of a con, that he has learned to say words the superficially convey a semblance of humanity, but it is "off" there is always a weird, synthetic feel to what he says when he is trying to sound human.

The only aspect of humanity that Trump is able to pull of genuinely is our ability for depravity and cruelty. Aspects that most of us try to escape or suppress.

People are complex. We have the capacity for wonderful love and gentility and selflessness, and at the same time we can be mean and sadistic and selfish.

Trump is simple. He only has the capacity for the latter. There is no complexity to him. People (at least Pundits) try to analyze him and infer some kind of complexity to him. I always wonder if they are obtuse, cynical, or just don't have a firm grasp of human behavior. Trump is easy to figure out. Maybe it is difficult to accept that a person can be so morally bankrupt, but it is not academically difficult to figure out what motivates him.