Susan Glasser: ‘Empathy Is Not What Trump Is Coded For,’ It’s Attacking the Records of His Predecessors

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GLASSER: “Yeah, I feel like I've heard the word empathy and Donald Trump in this conversation more than, you know, ever in the decade that he's been sort of dominating our national politics. You know, he has a setting for these speeches. He's done this many times before. It's triumphalism. It's a valedictory. Let's recall that a year ago, only six weeks into his second term, he took the podium in Congress and he said that he had already done more and was the greatest president essentially since George Washington. So you know, I think empathy is not what Trump is coded for. You know, what -- as a politician, where he has been strongest is in two things. One, ripping down and attacking the records of his predecessors. He's good as an opponent, right? He, you know, was eviscerating to Joe Biden. He was eviscerating to Hillary Clinton. So that's one thing that he's strong on.”