I think the point is that he was more worried about getting the marble floors cleaned than he was about the injured person.
Trump once thought a bloody man died at Mar-a-Lago and he turned away, upset about the stained floor
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I found it to be a mixed tone and message. Which I expressly stated in my comment.
Criticizing him for his lack of care or empathy…on board with that part.
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It’s not that he’s freaked out by blood that I care about, it’s that his distaste for the blood was his sole concern when he thought someone had died right in front of him, and that he felt it was somehow okay to admit he cared more about the blood than he did the death.
I do love that Frasier clip though. I sometimes pull up that episode just to watch that sequence.
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Concur. It seems clear he felt terrible about the disgusting blood staining his marble floor, but had no particular care or concern about the man having been badly injured. That’s plenty worthy of vilification.
You can imagine him playing it for laughs in front of Howard Stern, when he was a person who really didn’t matter. But now, when his gut reactions alter the lives of millions daily, it just makes me very sad.
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He probably doesn’t get out much. And by getting out I mean looking after himself in the wilderness for a couple of days. Dealing with some icky stuff without assistants to clean up after him. Chances are that has never happened.
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Is it just me or is hat headline a real doozy. 3 or 4 reads before I could begin to make anything of it.
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I doubt the guy has worked a single day in his life.
He grew up in a gilded palace, went to military school where his folk’s money kept him nice and safe, then got some money from dad and built his own palace. Oh, and he managed to run several casinos into the ground.
It takes a very special kind of stupid to make a casino fail. That’s like making a net loss selling heroin in Seattle in the 1990s.
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Holy smokes, I think I discovered a rare moment where Trumpy told the truth: “And the Marines were there, and it was terrible because all these rich people, they’re there to support the Marines, but they’re really there to get their picture in the Palm Beach Post”
I’ve covered enough charity fundraisers to vouch for this.
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I’m not a huge fan of “Fat Guys in the Woods”, but I’d watch that episode
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Falling down and bleeding = bad
Nuclear war = awesome!
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“The scruples of a guinea pig and the morals of a gangster.”
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I dunno, how likely is it that there were a bunch of marines hanging out, in uniform, just waiting to appear whenever Donald gets scared?
I guess it sounds more exciting than saying it was the busboys.
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And now they had the perfect excuse to leave the event early.
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I think he’d go completely unglued after two days. Probably not being able to set up a tent or start a fire would be tough, but the two days without Twitter or having an audience to spout off to would do him in.
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This, to me, is the most interesting part of the story. The entire point of him telling the story is actually to glorify marines. I mean, he said he was disgusted by the blood and turned away, but he also says everyone else was too. I honestly think he’s telling the story because he’s really impressed by marines and wants to say nice things about them.
Say the same thing had happened to me. I might tell the story by saying, “I wanted to help, but I was kind of stunned by what happened and before I could get my bearings…” That way I’d highlight that the marines really knew what to do and how to help without insinuating that I was callous.
But that’s what’s so interesting to me about the story. Trump doesn’t understand people at all and projects himself onto them fully. He doesn’t know that the way he tells the story makes him look bad (if he did he wouldn’t tell it that way). He doesn’t know that other people will hear him talk about blood on the floor and an injured man in the same breath and feel like he cares more about floors than people.
I find it interesting because people tend to think of Trump as an 100% callous person and I don’t think that’s really true. I think there have been various incidents during his presidency where he seemed to act on impulse to try to reduce the suffering of someone else (seemingly at random). But I think he doesn’t really know how to behave in a “human” way, and that most of the time he’s way too caught up in his own emotions to even be aware of what is going on with other people.
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Yes. this story also strikes me as him trying to affect some sort of humility and failing.
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Touche!
I think it really is fair to guess that he is impressed by marines, though. Just like he loves sitting behind the wheel of a big truck. When interpreting Trump I think you rarely go wrong with What Would a Shallow Stereo-type of a Five-Year-Old Boy Feel?
I’ll print the WWASSTOAFYOBF bracelets.
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You nailed it perfectly. It’s not that he’s a monster that’s wondrous, it’s that he can’t even understand what we find monstrous.
And yet, with a gaping deficit like that, he managed to become president.
I honestly still find that hard to believe.
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That’s not the lede
