On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” CNN Counterterrorism Analyst and former CIA counterterrorism official Philip Mudd stated President Trump “has the empathy of a cockroach.”
After seeing a clip of Trump saying that a day where he calls multiple families of dead soldiers is a “very, very tough day. For me, that’s by far the toughest.” Mudd stated, “Boy, it’s a tough day for the president? How about for the families who accepted a child or a father or a spouse home in a casket? It’s not a tough day for them? This guy has the empathy of a cockroach. From the day after his inauguration, when he showed up at my former agency, the CIA, in front of the wall of fallen heroes, and spoke about the size of his inauguration. Fast-forwarding now, what is it? Nine months, and he can’t figure out his responsibility, not only as the commander-in-chief, but as the consoler-in-chief, is to tell those families, ‘It’s not about me. It’s not about Donald Trump.’ It’s about 330 million Americans saying, ‘Thank you for having someone in your family who sacrificed your life for the flag.’ … And all he can say is, ‘My job is tough. And the guys who came before me, like President Obama, also didn’t do too well in these circumstances.’ I just don’t get it.”
(h/t Mediaite)
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