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Friday, November 28, 2025

President Donald Trump attracted a wave of criticism after he pivoted to talking about his 2024 election victory when asked about a National Guard member who recently succumbed to her gunshot wounds. During a Thursday press conference at Mar-a-Lago, one reporter asked the president if he would attend Beckstrom's funeral. At that point, Trump then boasted that he won Beckstrom's home state by a significant margin in the 2024 election. "I haven't thought about it yet, but it certainly is something I could conceive of. I love West Virginia, and I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere," Trump said. Trump's remarks prompted multiple journalists, commentators and others to condemn him for bragging about his Electoral College win in the wake of a U.S. service member's death. Writer Michael Freeman called the president a "degenerate sociopath."

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President Donald Trump attracted a wave of criticism after he pivoted to talking about his 2024 election victory when asked about a National Guard member who recently succumbed to her gunshot wounds. During a Thursday press conference at Mar-a-Lago, one reporter asked the president if he would attend Beckstrom's funeral. At that point, Trump then boasted that he won Beckstrom's home state by a significant margin in the 2024 election. "I haven't thought about it yet, but it certainly is something I could conceive of. I love West Virginia, and I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere," Trump said.

Is pedo 47 going to incite another brawl at Sarah Beckstrom's grave site?

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-11-28 12:35 AM | Reply

Holy friggin' anal excretions ...

Has Pres Trump not a clue about empathy?



#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-28 01:38 AM | Reply

Has Pres Trump not a clue about empathy?

Of course not. He's a sociopath. Among other things.

#3 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-28 02:00 AM | Reply

"weekend at Donnie's" will be here before we know it.

#4 | Posted by a_monson at 2025-11-28 03:06 AM | Reply

After the Twin Towers fell on 9/11, Dummkopf Trumpf gloated that his building became the tallest in lower Manhattan.

Source: Sociopath Boasts After 2,700 People in WTC Killed



#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-28 05:11 AM | Reply

Writer Michael Freeman called the president a "degenerate sociopath."

F-in' Duh! He then went on to say, "and water is wet."

#6 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-11-28 07:49 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"degenerate sociopath."

Accurate description.

Caligula would not even be a footnote in history had Rome not armed him with ultimate power.

The Romans were only able to tolerate him for three years.

#7 | Posted by Zed at 2025-11-28 08:27 AM | Reply

Trumpligula... sounds about right.

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-28 09:16 AM | Reply

#2 Empathy

Hannah Arendt wrote about the "banality of evil", that it's not the presence of something but the absence of something that makes evil men.

#9 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-28 09:26 AM | Reply

#2 Empathy

"The definition of evil is the total lack of empathy." - Gustave Mark Gilbert, US Army officer, author and professor of Psychology (1911 - 1977)

In 1945, after the end of the war, Gilbert was sent to Nuremberg, Germany, as a translator for the International Military Tribunal for the trials of the World War II German prisoners. Gilbert was appointed the Prison Psychologist of the German prisoners. During the process of the trials Gilbert became, after Dr Douglas Kelley, the confidant of Hermann Gring, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Hans Frank, Oswald Pohl, Otto Ohlendorf, Rudolf Hss, and Ernst Kaltenbrunner, among others. At first he did not tell them he was Jewish; after he told them, most of the prisoners did not mind talking to him. Gilbert also participated in the Nuremberg Trials as the American Military Chief Psychologist and provided testimony attesting the sanity of Rudolf Hess.

source

#10 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-28 09:29 AM | Reply

Psychologically, empathy is basically the opposite of narcissism.

DJT is a classic example of what's know as a Dark Triad Personality.

And that never ends well for anyone they have power over.

#11 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-28 09:47 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#10

Check out the Milgram Experiment after WW2 that studied why Nazi Prison Guards would commit horrendous acts against prisoners that a normal person would not ordinarily do.

In that case, they passed responsibility for their lack of empathy onto their superior officers who ordered them to torture people.

They basically became what Trump is; an extreme narcissist with other psychopathies.

#12 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-28 10:06 AM | Reply

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