Normal people don't attack dead congressmen. Trump isn't normal

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To the editor: Matt Welch talked about others’ reactions to our president’s penchant for defaming the dead, but he said nothing about why President Trump keeps doing it.

To Trump it makes perfect sense: The dead can’t fight back. This is what sociopaths do.

Welch speaks as if our president is normal and has a conscience. By definition sociopaths do not. They do not feel love like most others do. Such an existence is almost impossible for us to imagine, yet it is this incapacity to feel love that prevents people like Trump from having a conscience or feeling empathy.

Trump appears not to understand the difference between wrong and right, let alone the hurt his comment about the late Rep. John Dingell being in hell would cause to a grieving widow. He regards that grieving widow the same way you and I regard a table or a chair.

To the editor: Trump said Dingell was in hell. In response, I tore a page of my Bible and sent it to our president. It was the book of Matthew, Chapter 7, Verse 1, where Jesus said, “Do not judge or you too will be judged.”

Apparently Trump missed Sunday school the day that lesson was taught.

To the editor: Why does Trump keep attacking dead people? The answer is simple.

First, dead people cannot fight back. Second, it makes the news.

darthphallic on December 30th, 2019 at 00:24 UTC »

Normal 73 year old men don’t pick fights with teenage girls on Twitter because they’re jealous of an award either.

saintbad on December 29th, 2019 at 21:47 UTC »

And, crucially, he is the Chief “Conservative.” This is what the Republican Party has devolved to. THIS is what bubbles to the top of their cesspit. THIS. He is a sociopath and an abomination; but HE is who they choose to lead the party, and who they stand behind to a person—nary a one of them has opposed him or crossed him in any meaningful way. THIS IS CONSERVATISM NOW.

TrumpUberAlles on December 29th, 2019 at 19:45 UTC »

He's a walking-talking textbook example of malignant narcissism. Psychology textbooks in the future are going to have whole chapters on him, maybe there will be even whole semester-long classes on him.

Grandiosity with expectations of superior treatment from others

Fixated on fantasies of power, success, intelligence, attractiveness, etc.

Self-perception of being unique, superior and associated with high-status people and institutions

Needing constant admiration from others

Sense of entitlement to special treatment and to obedience from others

Exploitative of others to achieve personal gain

Unwilling to empathize with others' feelings, wishes, or needs

Intensely envious of others and the belief that others are equally envious of them

Pompous and arrogant demeanor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malignant_narcissism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_rage_and_narcissistic_injury

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_supply