Matt Bai looks at how the Malignant Loser hasn't managed to age significantly after four years in the White House, with his predecessors showing significant signs of aging after their terms (Obama's snow white hair, Clinton's weary face and heart condition, Lincoln's deep lines, etc.). Bai has a theory about why that is, and it's not at all surprising (spoiler alert: it's not the industrial strength bronzer and hair dye the Malignant Loser uses). From his Washington Post op-ed this morning:
"I’m trying not to be cruel here, but it’s not exactly breaking new ground to say that [Trump] seems to lack for something innately human — the basic capacity to internalize other people’s pain. As president, Trump never betrayed remorse or apologized, never seemed to take personally the 800,000 Americans who died from the coronavirus on his watch. Tragedy breeds in him only defiance. Trump’s motto might be: “Don’t worry, be angry.”
When Trump and his children talk about the sacrifices their family made to serve the public, they aren’t talking about his anguished nights spent roaming the halls of the White House. They’re talking about money.
The point is that empathy and self-doubt — the feeling that we’re failing to meet the critical needs of others — are the things that really take a toll on us. Whereas clinical callousness may well be a fountain of youth — from which Trump’s been guzzling his entire life." (our emphasis)
In 2016, the Malignant Loser saw the Presidency as a way to grow his "brand" and collect bribes to enrich himself; now, he's running to stay out of prison, and if he succeeds, he'll try to enrich himself again, this time having the "immunity" from criminal prosecution granted by his Supreme Court.
