It’s easy for us to point out the difference between Obama and Trump in how they respond to tragic events. There are several of orders of magnitude of difference between them. But let’s compare how any normal person in a political position, a civil servant, should respond, which is to to be able to show some empathy. Trump is absolutely incapable of doing that. He is a complete narcissist driven by ego. Instead of comparing Trump to Obama, let’s compare Trump to Bush in just the quality of showing some human compassion — something that should be automatic and natural in this position as a leader and public servant.
The Bush response to Katrina was a complete screwup, rife with incompetence, and one of the many low points of the Bush presidency. Except Bush knew how to show empathy. We now are looking at how a complete sociopath reacts in a disaster. Try and imagine Trump even trying to fake empathy in any of the images below. Try and substitute Trump in for Bush in any of the pictures below. It is impossible. You can’t do it. This is not an attempt to rewrite Bush as a great humanitarian, but to show how far down we have sunk with a total narcissist as President.