Trump infected with COVID-19: Empathy for a president who has none for others
Dan Rodricks, The Baltimore Sun
I note that just hours before President Donald Trump reported that he and First Lady Melania Trump had tested positive for the
coronavirus, the Trump administration announced that the nation would close the door to even more refugees who seek our help. We will now take in only 15,000 people, many of them children, fleeing famine, persecution and civil strife.
That’s a record low in annual admissions and, as a measure of American empathy, a national disgrace.
“As the world experiences one of the most severe refugee crises in recorded history, the Trump administration has decided, yet again, to turn our back on the globe’s most vulnerable,” said Ben Cardin, a Democrat and Maryland’s senior senator.
I find the juxtaposition of Trump’s virus infection and the new refugee limit obvious and profound: A president completely without empathy toward others now tests the capacity of others to be empathetic toward him.
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