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kleinbl00  ·  2782 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trump Grows Discontented With Attorney General Jeff Sessions

Donald Trump is easy to understand if you consider him to be a person with a noteworthy lack of empathy. As a man who cannot figuratively put himself in someone else's shoes, everything that thwarts his will is malice or incompetence. He lashes out because he has done everything right, but everyone around him constantly screws up (deliberately or accidentally) to cause an outcome other than the one he desires. And if the outcome he desires changes over time, then those he entrusts to carry out his wishes are deficient if they do not anticipate his vision.

(clearly, it takes an exercise of empathy to appreciate someone who lacks it)





tacocat  ·  2782 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So a sociopath?

Kidding. Not really kidding.

b_b  ·  2782 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  
tacocat  ·  2782 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thank you. I needed to laugh

b_b  ·  2782 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Can't you imagine some hack screenwriter pitching a story about villain who steals money from children's cancer research getting laughed out of the room? Yet this is reality, a horribly written caricature of a movie bad guy.