Trump's Twitter defense of Flynn shows he can sympathize
just not with coronavirus victims
May 1, 2020, 4:30 AM EDT
By Dean Obeidallah, host of "The Dean Obeidallah Show"
"President Donald Trump has been accused of many things over his years in office — pundits and journalists and lawmakers have wondered about everything from his seeming inability to tell the truth to his seeming trouble reading. As critics scrutinize his response to the coronavirus crisis, some are now wondering whether the president is even capable of showing empathy.
On Wednesday night, CNN presidential historian Douglas Brinkley asked this very question, musing that Trump might suffer from "empathy deficit disorder." At issue was the way the president's constant White House briefings failed to focus on the individual Americans suffering because of the pandemic. "I've never seen a president unable to speak like a human being to people on the front lines," Brinkley said."
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