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babylonsister

(171,092 posts)
Mon Apr 6, 2020, 08:29 AM Apr 2020

Has Anyone Found Trump's Soul?

https://politicalwire.com/2020/04/06/has-anyone-found-trumps-soul/

Has Anyone Found Trump’s Soul?
April 6, 2020 at 7:25 am EDT By Taegan Goddard


Frank Bruni: “Do you remember President George W. Bush’s 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 doesn’t excuse them. But it mattered, because it reassured us that our country’s leader was navigating some of the same emotional currents that we were.”

“Do you remember President Barack Obama’s 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 couldn’t 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 Trump’s 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 Trump’s predecessors, for all their imperfections, I could sense the beat of a heart and see the glimmer of a soul. In him I can’t, and that fills me with a sorrow and a rage that I quite frankly don’t know what to do with.”
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Has Anyone Found Trump's Soul? (Original Post) babylonsister Apr 2020 OP
You can't find what never existed. nt luvs2sing Apr 2020 #1
Left in the men's room superpatriotman Apr 2020 #2
He has none underpants Apr 2020 #3
No. Satan absconded with it on the day trump was born. DEbluedude Apr 2020 #4
He is a million cockroaches in a skin suit SoonerPride Apr 2020 #5
I think this guy may have seen it. Girard442 Apr 2020 #6
He sold his soul to the Devil campaigning for President BlueJac Apr 2020 #7
My editors choice comment in the NY Times Danmel Apr 2020 #8

BlueJac

(7,838 posts)
7. He sold his soul to the Devil campaigning for President
Mon Apr 6, 2020, 08:47 AM
Apr 2020

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
Mon Apr 6, 2020, 08:51 AM
Apr 2020

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.
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