Consoler-in-chief? Lacking empathy, Trump weighs the economic costs, not the human ones
Instead of weighing the human costs alongside the economic ones, Trump seems to be thinking about something else: himself
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In times of national tragedy, the US president has, going back at least to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, filled the unique role of consoler-in-chief.
As Roosevelt did during his Great Depression-era fireside chats, the president has given voice to personal suffering and made victims of hardship feel recognized.
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