13 hours of Trump: The president fills briefings with attacks and boasts, but little empathy

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/13-hours-of-trump-the-president-fills-briefings-with-attacks-and-boasts-but-little-empathy/2020/04/25/7eec5ab0-8590-11ea-a3eb-e9fc93160703_story.html

By Philip Bump and Ashley Parker

April 26, 2020 at 8:00 a.m. EDT

President Trump strode to the lectern in the White House briefing room Thursday and, for just over an hour, attacked his rivals, dismissing Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden as a “sleepy guy in a basement of a house” and lambasting the media as “fake news” and “lamestream.”

He showered praise on himself and his team, repeatedly touting the “great job” they were doing as he spoke of the “tremendous progress” being made toward a vaccine and how “phenomenally” the nation was faring in terms of mortality.

What he did not do was offer any sympathy for the 2,081 Americans who were reported dead from the coronavirus on that day alone — among nearly 53,000 Americans who have perished since the pandemic began.

What began as daily briefings meant to convey public health information have become de facto political rallies conducted from the West Wing of the White House. Trump offers little in the way of accurate medical information or empathy for coronavirus victims, instead focusing on attacking his enemies and lauding himself and his allies.

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If it hasn't been done already, *this* needs to be made into a TV commercial - not just a political ad, but a friggin' PSA!

[beachbumbob]

1. really funny, we now see its clear that from a trump/republican viewpoint, very few lives matter.

Another brick in their hypocrisy wall of shame

[GusBob]

2. Stark realization

First he realized the briefings were making him look bad

Next he is going to realize that each dead person has family friends coworkers that miss them

And he might realize he has not offered one word of condolences to these 100s of thousands

But then in his craven selfish mind he may realize that these people vote

He cant do anything about it because he sucks at empathy.

[dewsgirl]

3. K and R

[DURHAM D]

4. False headline.

should say - "no empathy"

[lark]

5. Not true - he didn't show little empathy, he showed exactly zero caring at all.

He doesn't give a shit that 50,000 have died, just wants praise because it's not 100,000 (yet). He and Jared are killing us on purpose for their own financial profiteering off of goods Americans taxpayers have already paid for and that are vitally needed. He's destroying blue state finances, on purpose, so they can't protect our votes and more Dems die. He's killing us by withholding PPE and profiteering off of them, again to fatten their own pockets and to kill Democrats and anyone "stupid" enough to help. He thinks helping others is weak because all he values is praise for himself, money for him, and death of Democrats because we are trying to stop him from establishing the fascist oligarchy he's hell bent on establishing.