Truth-telling Absentia

Donald Trump lies about almost everything and accepts responsibility for almost nothing. What an ungodly horrible president.

His behavior regarding killed American soldiers is not merely clumsy but disgracefully. Of course we know that in spite of his words — sad — he has little or no respect for American soldiers. He chickened out of military service himself, disparaged the Gold Star parents of a dead soldier and most recently has mistreated the survivors of soldiers killed in action.

In one documented instance earlier this year, he called the father of a slain soldier and promised to send him $25,000. He never did. And let’s repeat that: he never did, at least until he was called on it by a newspaper. One of his flunkies then said “a check has been mailed.” Just this week Trump lied about not having been in touch with other survivors, and then when he called one of them i turns out he insulted her and was simply thoughtless in his words.

So bad.

How do you explain this kind of behavior? (And we’ve not mentioned his false accusation that other presidents have never written or called surviving families?) How does anyone maintain even a shred of respect for this person?