Trump is a narcissist sociopath who can’t possibly comfort another person because he fundamentally doesn’t give a shit about other people.
Your explanation gives him the benefit of the doubt and the tacit assumption that he has any humanity whatsoever. No offense, but fuck that. I find this an extremely dubious assumption, as I’ve never seen him do a single thing to justify this, including boasting, preemptively, that he has somehow done a far better job than previous presidents in this role.
By repeating his own disproven claims about what was said and publicly dragging this out rather than admitting he’s made a mistake he’s calling her a liar.
If that’s not a blatant attack then it says something about how low we’ve set the bar.
Or at the very least “I misspoke and I didn’t intend to cause any harm.”
Look - no one MAKES him do these things. If you don’t want to take the time to do something like this - then DON’T! It would be much, much better to not do it, rather than do something half assed. I get it, I am bad with names. But if I was calling someone about their dead husband, I would god damn well know his name. I guess I don’t know the context of the “He knew what he was getting into.” I can’t imagine that being anything else than tone deaf at best. (I could see someone making the point that he was a brave soldier willing to sacrifice his life for his country.) That is why I would have scripted points laid out if I was prone to saying stupid shit. If I said stupid shit, I’d apologize about that coming out wrong.
Kelly did a good job? He slandered Congresswoman Wilson, and did it by dragging in a completely unrelated issue (her speech at an FBI facility-opening.) Not to mention his crap about saying only Gold Star people had the right to ask him questions on the subject.
Well, of course. But I think this also another one of those parts of the job that Trump had no clue about, didn’t want to do (of course, who would), and shrugged off like a lot of the other duties he just ignores (like. . . filling important administration positions.)
He doesn’t want to do his job, when he does it he does it poorly, then makes excuses or calls someone a liar, then has his staff try and clean up the mess in a painfully heavy handed way.
That would be so out of character for him. It would instantly be obvious that the words weren’t Trump’s and that it isn’t a sincere statement. You’re right other presidents would have said that, but Trump can’t.
I am struck by how Mrs. Johnson details her family’s relationship with their congressperson – Feels to me like Trumpistan really maligned a woman who is a great congressperson. Probably why they feel her barrel is so empty – she’s connected with her community.
There was an especially disgusting moment during the campaign where Trump said he had always wanted a Purple Heart. Did he say how much he wanted a Medal of Honor today?
At this point it’s so bad it kind of counts as a special kind of accomplishment that he manages to keep one-upping himself. “Oh, you thought it was bad when I insulted a former POW and a Gold Star family during the campaign? Well what if I personally smack-talk a pregnant widow who just received her dead husband’s body?”
