Joe Klein: “Trump has assembled an administration of emotionally damaged people. They embrace conspiracies, like Bobby Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel. Others tend to be deficient in the empathy zone. Elon Musk has told his biographer Walter Isaacson—the book is excellent—that he has an Asperger’s personality. That’s at the mild end of the spectrum. But, not to put too fine a point on it, he treats other people like shit. He has no ear for human sensitivity; and he surrounds himself with like-minded brutalists…”
“Donald Trump is actually worse: he is not ignorant of other people’s pain, he gets a kick out of it. Long ago, I compared him to the Emperor Caligula, who got his greatest pleasure from the suffering of his opponents.”
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