For the want of a live heart.
This is why.
He used the dead son of his chief of staff to double down on a lie.
“To the best of my knowledge, I think I’ve called every family of somebody that’s died,” Trump told Fox News radio host Brian Kilmeade on Tuesday morning. “As far as other representatives, I don’t know, I mean you could ask Gen. Kelly, did he get a call from Obama?”
Who does that?
One said Kelly may have mentioned some details surrounding his son’s death to the president in private — and the president then repeated them in public, a relatively frequent occurrence with Trump.
The president of the United States does that.
This is why.
He told this to a pregnant woman with two children who just lost her husband.
President Donald Trump told U.S. Army Sgt. La David Johnson’s widow Tuesday that “he knew what he signed up for … but when it happens, it hurts anyway,” speaking of how Johnson died serving in northwestern Africa, according to Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Miami
It’s not about economic displacement. It’s not about grammatically-incorrect tweets. It’s not about a rapacious, tone-deaf cabinet. It’s not about the ACA. It’s not about regulation. It’s not about immigrants.
It’s not even about Hillary Clinton.
It’s about this man.
“I’ve been so lucky in terms of that whole world,” Trump told Stern of avoiding STDs. “It is a dangerous world out there. It’s scary, like Vietnam. Sort of like the Vietnam era. It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave soldier.”
Pete Seeger once talked of those with the “live hearts and live minds.”
Donald Trump has neither.
He is a bottomless vat of callous smugness.
This is why.