PSY-VU: Narcissist Trump can’t apologize, and nobody will say "why don’t you just say I’m sorry?"

by HalBrown

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Monday, Jul. 04, 2016 Monday, Jul. 04, 2016 at 8:45:23am PDT

Photo by Evgenii Khaldeai showing a Jewish couple with the required yellow star of david sewn to their coats as required by Nazi Germany before and during the Holocaust. — A photo by Evgenii Khaldeai showing a Jewish couple wearing stars as they were required to do in Nazi-occupied areas.

There’s been lots of commentary about the Star of David being used in a Trump Tweet, but I have another take on it. No matter whether or not, consciously or unconsciously, somebody used the symbol so powerful and symbolic to Jews and others to appeal to neo-Nazis and white supremacists, there are other facts that have to be considered.

What we heard was denial, especially from the wormy Corey Lewandowski, saying it was merely meant to be a star, or a sheriff’s star. And, in the Trumpian manner, comes a heeping helping of blame the media deflection.

All over the news this morning is that Trump is defending the original post, despite the fact that it originated first from a notoriously racist Tweeter, and then was repost on a racist website. I have yet to hear someone confront a Trump surrogate by directly asking why Trump can’t simply say he is sorry.

Admit he or someone associated with him made a mistake? Really, and pigs fly and Shrek is real.

About the closest to an apology that has come from the Trump camp is that their deleting the star and replacing it with a circle was enough to show they recognized it was inappropriate. Some Republican on MSNBC just said that everyone in the campaign “regrets that this has happened.” Of course they do! Because it was wrong? No, because they had to do damage control.

HERE ARE MY FACTS

Fact 1) Many people were offended, and nobody apologized.

Fact 2) “I’m sorry” is something children usually learn early on to say when they’ve done something wrong, whether deliberate or not. If you say something that hurts someone’s feelings, you say that you are sorry.

Fact 3) People with narcissistic personality disorder never apologize. They feel no shame.

All this brings to mind the most famous line from the Army-McCarthy hearings:

I meant to do you no personal injury, and if I did, beg your pardon.

Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency? Special Counsel for the Army Joseph N. Welch.