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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHas Anyone Found Trump's Soul?
https://politicalwire.com/2020/04/06/has-anyone-found-trumps-soul/Has Anyone Found Trumps Soul?
April 6, 2020 at 7:25 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Frank Bruni: Do you remember President George W. Bushs 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 doesnt excuse them. But it mattered, because it reassured us that our countrys leader was navigating some of the same emotional currents that we were.
Do you remember President Barack Obamas 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 couldnt 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 Trumps 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.
In Trumps predecessors, for all their imperfections, I could sense the beat of a heart and see the glimmer of a soul. In him I cant, and that fills me with a sorrow and a rage that I quite frankly dont know what to do with.
Do you remember President Barack Obamas 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 couldnt 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 Trumps 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.
In Trumps predecessors, for all their imperfections, I could sense the beat of a heart and see the glimmer of a soul. In him I cant, and that fills me with a sorrow and a rage that I quite frankly dont know what to do with.
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Has Anyone Found Trump's Soul? (Original Post)
babylonsister
Apr 2020
OP
luvs2sing
(2,220 posts)1. You can't find what never existed. nt
superpatriotman
(6,252 posts)2. Left in the men's room
Fourth hole, trump National, Jupiter Florida
underpants
(182,883 posts)3. He has none
Was I the first to reply with that?
DEbluedude
(816 posts)4. No. Satan absconded with it on the day trump was born.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)5. He is a million cockroaches in a skin suit
He has no soul
Girard442
(6,085 posts)6. I think this guy may have seen it.
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BlueJac
(7,838 posts)7. He sold his soul to the Devil campaigning for President
Now is just a greedy soul ripping off America and the rest of the world!
Danmel
(4,925 posts)8. My editors choice comment in the NY Times
Debbie
New York17m ago
Times Pick
A true leader would wear a mask, practice social distancing at their press conferences and not hand out pens at a bill signing.
My mother always told us not to think we are superior to other people. Every single person on Earth knows something or has experienced something you haven't, she told us. And there is something you can learn from every person you meet, even if it is how not to behave and how not to act.
At this time of peril, when it is natural to turn to our president for information and comfort, we've got the one who is our cautionary tale.