I was thinking about Trump's "sir stories". Where he tells about conversations with about anyone

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12. Different generations have different rules.

When I was growing up, children were to be "seen and not heard". When you force people to "respect" others, it can lead to bad things happening.

While I do teach my children to be respectful and use a person's title or relationship marker, I also teach them that respect is earned and kept by behavior. If a relative, teacher, etc... was abusive, I would not obligate my child to continue to use any honorific/relational titles.

There was a period of time where I would not speak to some of my uncles, and/or would call them by their first name (myself being an adult at the time). I did not feel, based on their treatment of me, that they deserved the respect of being referred to by "uncle". I have reconciled that time and those behaviors now, and have reverted back to using titles as the relationships are mostly repaired.

I would very likely never call Trump, "sir", Mr. President, etc... I would definitely call President Biden, "sir" or "Mr. President" as I would call President Obama, or call "Secretary Clinton" or "Ma'am"

Mary Trump said that Donald Trump does not deserve our respect or sympathy at this point because he is so destructive. There is no doubt that he suffered in his life. His father was abusive and his mother was not mentally well. He could have used his family's wealth to deal with those traumas, but he didn't and went full steam into becoming a monstrous person who damaged so many lives. He is beyond redemption at this point, at least in my opinion.