consoling. just being in the moment as a normal, caring, human being would, as anybody would. or barring that, simply pretending to be that, a normal, caring human being. the president, after all, spent years playing a character on tv. he played a successful business executive. as he d quickly point out, got good ratings for a while. he could have looked at this as a performance on the biggest stage yet and as obscene as that sounds, that act of pretending, the simulation of human kindness and caring might have at least brought solace to a few people. but even pretending to care was too much. perhaps because it wouldn t have meant not boasting about his reception earlier in dayton, ohio or making up stories about his host to justify the grievance he was venting which he did about the mayor of dayton, ohio. i took him in at their request. we made the tour. they couldn t believe it. she said to people, he said it to people.
the simulation of human kindness and caring, it might at least have brought solace to a few people. but even pretending to care was too much. perhaps because it wouldn t have meant not boasting about his reception earlier in dayton, ohio or making up stories about his host to justify the grievance he was venting which he did about the mayor of dayton and senator sherrod brown of ohio. i took him in at their request. we made the tour. they couldn t believe it. she said to people, he said it to people. i get on air force one where they do have a lot of televisions. i turn on the television, and there they are saying, well, i don t know if it was appropriate for the president to be here. you know, et cetera, et cetera, you know, the same old line. they re very dishonest people and that s probably why he got i think about 0% that he failed as a presidential candidate. again, that s in front of first responders there. and he s talking about on a flight from a city where nine people di
paso told our jim acosta that the general assessment was that, quote, there was a, quote, absence of empathy by the president, unquote. on the president s part. this official told jim acosta that jim spoke with mentioned that the clip you just saw and said it left the impression that the president was not as focused on consoling patients as might be expected, which is strange because generally that is all that s expected of a president visiting a hospital in a city where 22 people had just been murdered. nothing more. just that. just empathy, listening, consoling. just being in the moment as a normal, caring, human being would, as anybody would. or barring that, simply pretending to be that, a normal, caring human being. the president, after all, spent years playing a character on tv. he played a successful business executive. as he d quickly point out, got good ratings for a while. he could have looked at this as a performance on the biggest stage yet and as obscene as that sounds, th