3 F'ing things. First, there's an old saying in the Army...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

19. I thought it might be something like that.

A sad story; and not saying to the parents anything suggesting that they knew what was going to happen was exactly the right way to talk to them - and parallels what Trump did do and shouldn't have. You knew it would be insensitive but obviously Trump didn't.

And your comment about W is right on, too. As a president he sucked hard enough to bend light, but even he seemed to have an occasional flash of humanity - he had pets and seemed to care about his kids and didn't go out of his way to say gratuitously cruel things - and there did seem to be some lines he wouldn't cross. But Trump seems to be trying to be as horrible as possible, to do everything imaginable, or even unimaginable, that most people would consider disgusting, uncivilized, and downright evil. W was a garden-variety neocon with a mediocre intellect, not much imagination, and a pathetic willingness to be led around by the nose by Dick Cheney. Fucking Trump is the fucking Antichrist.