They're Sociopaths and Simply Don't Care About You

     To many, if not all, normal, compassionate people, it's difficult, if not outright impossible to understand sociopaths or even to wrap our minds around the very fact that they exist. As a thriller novelist, I create sociopaths in my fiction all the time. But I'd long ago come to the conclusion, and accept, that when it comes to such people, I'm necessarily on the outside looking in. I can replicate their behavior, detail their crimes, even up to a point delineate their motives. But I freely admit I could be getting it wrong. When I wrote my novel, Hollywoodland, five years ago, I wrote the book in three different POVs (Points of View). Kelley McCarthy's, Scott Carson's and Jack the Ripper's.

     Kelley's and Scott's POVs were written in first person. The Ripper's was written in third person.

     Because Kelley and Scott are decent characters with normal human emotions, I had no problem with stovepiping the reader directly into their minds. First person is a great way to get into the mind of a character and aids in the interests of immersion. I knew the Ripper was a duplicitous, scheming individual so I reasoned at the time that it would do no good to have the Ripper play their hand before committing acts of evil.

     But then recently I admitted to myself that another reason for the third person POV was because I lacked insight into that particular mindset. It's like trying to describe color to a blind man or music to a deaf person.

     When I look at Donald Trump and his actions, I'm flabbergasted in a myriad of ways that he even exists. He's a person that lives between self-interest and rage, with nothing in between. I'm amazed that we were stupid enough to want to put this person in the White House not once but twice, to believe that he'd have our best interests at heart, ever, much less always.

      What happened at the Oval Office recently was an unmistakable case in point of what a real sociopath Donald Trump truly is. He held a press conference announcing that the administration worked with several pharmaceutical companies to bring down the cost of weight loss drugs such as Ozempic. Then an executive, originally thought to be Gordon Findlay of Novo Nordisk, fainted.

     Dr. Oz sprang into action, his professional instincts kicking in. Everyone clustered around the fallen man. One even lifted his legs to get blood back into his brain. Everyone seemed concerned (Except HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy, who literally ran out of the Oval Office seconds later). Trump stood up and looked down at the man, then turned around to face the cameras.

 

     This is just one of those pictures before the press was shooed out of the Oval Office.

     Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, another pure sociopath, just looked on as if he was watching two dogs fornicating in Central Park. And Kennedy, who's supposed to be safeguarding the health of all Americans, was already halfway across the Beltway at the slightest sign of illness.

     But neither of them are the president (Neither is Trump, but that's a story for another day). But all attention was fixed on Trump and his non-reaction. Today on her show, even as Nicolle Wallace and Rev. Al were basically accusing Trump of being the sociopath he is, the person in charge of the chyron still tried to cover for Trump by writing, "Trump's empathy on full display as man collapses in Oval Office."

     What empathy? You mean the complete absence of it, don't you?

     And this isn't even the first time this has happened in the Oval Office during this administration. Last April, at Dr. Oz's swearing in ceremony, a girl fainted and was led out before the cameras, again, were cut and the press kicked out. It turned out to be one of Oz's relatives and Trump's reaction was hardly any more empathetic than this week. During the last incident, Trump looked put-upon because, for a few moments, he was no longer the center of attention.

     But the non-reactions and lack of empathy on the part of these administration officials couldn't possibly be more unmistakable. A wealthy corporate executive fainted not three feet from Trump and he literally couldn't've cared less. How much do you think he cares about you?

 

     However, one other thing just before the medical episode that hadn't been touched on at the time was the fact that Trump was falling asleep yet again. He's done this time and again. He fell asleep several times during his Manhattan criminal trial. He fell asleep during the RNC convention. He'd fallen asleep last month at a meeting. He's fallen asleep during Cabinet meetings. He fell asleep (and likely had a stroke) during the last 9/11 ceremony. It's a miracle he wasn't wheeled on a dolley, Hannibal Lecter-style, for his own inauguration.

     And these incidents came long after the 2017 G7 summit in Sicily in which (without explanation) Trump had to follow the other six leaders in a golf cart. And that was when he was eight and a half years younger.

     As Wallace said, if Joe Biden yawned during a 30 hour flight, Fox would've suspended its coverage for a week to report on the presidential yawn. Just as I cannot fathom sociopaths, I'm equally at a loss to understand why the mainstream media was so obsessed with Biden's condition while not noticing Trump falling asleep time and again literally right under their noses.

      But considering Trump's, Lutnick's and Kennedy's reaction to the recent medical emergency, one thing is clear- They don't give a shit about you, never have and never will and Trump can't even stay awake to watch the destruction he's wreaking on this country. One wonders if he'll ever cross the line triggering the 25th Amendment or if we'll make him immune from that, as well, even at the expense of the nation.