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What a prick.
On behalf of those of us who were in New York City that day: who witnessed the destruction of the towers in person; who lost family, friends and colleagues; who heard the roar of the buildings breaking apart; who felt the vibration of the ground as the towers fell; who smelled the stench of burning plastic and metal and flesh and breathed the fumes for months; whose landscape of life itself was forever changed…
Oh behalf of those who were not there but watched or listened as the events of that day unfolded on their televisions or radios: who recoiled in horror at what seemed like a movie but was all too real; who felt helpless, numb, angry, heartbroken, or all of these at once; whose landscape of life itself was forever changed…
In fact, on behalf of everyone who has even a shred of humanity...
Don’t. Even. Go. There.
You inconceivable bastard.
Mass communications and media are more than outlets for entertainment—they are the conduits through which people around the world receive vital, life-changing information. Broadcasts and publications of earth-shattering events are pieces of history, not performances eligible for ratings contests. I should hope that television, radio, and print media audiences would be vast under such circumstances. And yet Trump dares to compare the gathered attention of a world in anguish to an audience for ANYTHING he does?
What a colossal asshole.
I am not a doctor, psychologist or therapist. I did do honors work for my minor in psychology as an undergrad, and I have a lifelong fascination with the study of behavior. For what it’s worth, I do believe that Trump is a narcissist, though my opinion is based solely on my own observations and on what I have studied about narcissistic personality disorder both in college and on my own. But this interview of his with the AP proves to me that he is more than a narcissist, more than a disordered personality.
He is a monster.