Trump's empathy problems
The president of the USA visits in Las Vegas the wounded of the shooting and says that "they are very lucky to be here"
George W. Bush came to the memorial held for the victims of Virginia Tech, the university where 32 people were shot dead in April 2007. Barack Obama wept after the infamous murder of 20 elementary school children and six adults at the Sandy Hook school in 2012; he rose to the pulpit in 2015 to redeem as a priest the nine slain parishioners in the Charleston church; and he condemned a year later the toxic interests and politicking that prevent serious regulation of weapons in the United States by paying tribute in Orlando to the 49 victims of the massacre at the gay nightclub Pulse. Now it is the turn of Donald Trump, who on Wednesday traveled to Las Vegas to pay tribute to the 59 dead and more than 500 injured in the deadliest shooting in the modern history of the country.
Unlike his predecessors, Trump has a real empathy problem. He doesn't know how to comfort people by showing them love and compassion. He himself has once said that he suffers from germophobia, a pathological aversion to germs and dirt, a disorder that would explain why he shies away from hugs and so stingily rationing handshakes. In Puerto Rico he was evident. Trump went to an aid distribution center for the victims of Hurricane Maria and threw rolls of paper into the air as if he were playing basketball, instead of listening to his stories and giving them a little physical warmth. .
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A while later, in an interview with Fox News, he praised the "incredible" response of his Administration and was "very proud" that hundreds of lives have not been lost "as in a real catastrophe," he said referring to to 'Katrina', as if the devastation in Puerto Rico were insignificant. That attitude is not new. During his visit to Texas flooded by tropical storm 'Harvey', he did not meet with any victims or set foot in the neighborhoods and Flooded towns, a nonsense in terms of public relations.
This time the president, who traveled to Las Vegas again accompanied by his wife Melania, visited the wounded in the shooting at a hospital. "Personally, this is a very, very sad day for me," he had said before getting on the plane. But he once again spent more time praising the "incredible professionalism" and "heroism" of the doctors and police than comforting the victims and by extension the country. "When you see the work they have done, you feel very proud to be an American," he said in a brief appearance before the media. "We have met with a few people, they are very lucky to be here," he said, referring to the injured. "We will always be by your side," he added rhetorically.
On the gun control laws, he did not want to speak, following the script of the National Rifle Association and the Republican Party, that every time there is a massacre they deactivate the attempts to reopen debate, accusing those who do so of wanting to politicize the tragedy. "I don't want to talk about it today," Trump said.
