Cillizza: Trump's Puerto Rico event was way worse than his tweets

[highplainsdem]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/03/politics/trump-puerto-rico/index.html

The whole 13+ minutes is surreal. Time and time again, Trump makes the whole thing about him -- using the various officials, military and otherwise, around him to reinforce the ideas that he is doing a great job. On display is someone wholly wrapped up in himself, incapable of understanding that this moment -- on the ground of a historic natural disaster for the Puerto Rican people --was not about him.

This is Trump off the telemprompter. Twitter Trump. Trump's real personality -- when words are not being carefully selected for him.

Trump knew -- because everyone wrote about it and TV talked about it relentlessly -- that the big question today in Puerto Rico was whether he could show some actual empathy, some human kindness to people he didn't know but who were still his constituents.

And, even knowing that, Trump delivered a navel-gazing, self-championing, victimhood-seeking speech that reeked of tone-deafness and out-of-touch-ism.

Even for this President, who has redefined presidential -- and not for the better -- this is a truly remarkable low.

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[Grammy23]

1. Honestly, given the behavior he has exhibited since Inauguration Day,

is there anyone who expected a transformation in him? An epiphany that showed he really gets it? If anyone seriously thought that this event, this photo-op, this staged exhibition was going to be the pivot point for him, I pity you. He has given zero indication that he wants to be a better President, much less a better human being. He won’t because he can’t.

[mcar]

2. For once,Cilizza is right

[NastyRiffraff]

3. He is incapable of empathy

even when, as Cillizza wrote, he had to know that it was something people would be watching for. He can't do it, and he's not interested in even trying to fake it.

[Fred Sanders]

5. Another thing the fucking terrorists of the NRA, Trump and Satan share. Zero empathy.

[LovingA2andMI]

4. There is no low...

Too Low For Cheeto. Chris Cillizza should know this already.

[bdamomma]

6. He is a poor excuse

for a person. He just does not care, he has never struggled for anything.

He is despicable and we know he is not fit to hold office. He has no respect for life or death. He hates women and just uses them for one thing only. Mr Pu**y grabber, he has tarnished the title, country, our people and has diminished our standing in the world.

He needs to go period. Ryan and McConnell and all those who take donations from the NRA can go to Hell.

Enough is enough.

[procon]

7. Trump is like Kim Jong-un's brother from another mother.

Seriously, could two tyrants be any more alike? They both have reputations for being weak men with fragile egos and thin skin, given to petty revenge and vendettas against anyone they think has wronged them, real or imagined. They are both jingoistic, hardline nationalists. They are more concerned about their self image as a "great man", an historical icon revered by generations yet to come, and they have no interest in the lives of their citizens.

[highplainsdem]

8. +1,000,000

[marylandblue]

9. Cizzilla acts.like he is surprised

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And also thinks it actually matters to the only people that matter -his base.