It's gotta be awful and distinctly embittering to live in this fashion, even if you're a blood gargling lunatic. Just nothing beautiful or good to take from life.

A national guardsman got killed and Trump's gut reaction was to pad most of his condolences with a tirade about how he won West Virgina by a wide margin.

When Kirk got killed he immediately pivoted to rambling about building a grand ballroom.

Trump's never shown an ounce of empathy in his life.

You can usually date any photo of Jimmy Buffet based on how bald/grey he was, because it went away quick after the millennium lol

There are many examples where "duck" was the optimal strategy for dealing with the Trump admin taking a swing at you in its first year. "Fight back" also appears to have worked a bunch of times. "Flatter your way out" sometimes worked, but needs a contingent social license. And BOY is it contingent.

Here was the original announcement back in July.
home.treasury.gov/news/press-r...