CNN's Gergen: Trump 'Needs to Deal With the Hatred in His Own Heart'

[highplainsdem]

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Source: Mediaite

CNN political analyst David Gergen says President Trump “needs to deal with the hatred in his own heart.”

Gergen spoke with Erin Burnett on Monday night, who asked for his reaction to the speech today where Trump condemned the “evil” of white supremacists involved in the chaos this past weekend. Gergen said Trump deserves credit for calling out racist groups by names, but he continued to hammer Trump for waiting two days before giving this latest statement, which Gergen found disingenuous.

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Gergen was referring to Trump’s tweets where he slammed Ken Frazier along with the media for their critical views about his initial statements on Charlottesville. As he continued, Gergen suggested that Trump has to address the “hatred” inside himself if he actually intends to heal the country’s racial divide.

“He said he wants to bring love, not hatred to the country,” Gergen said. “Good. We need to deal with hatred, but he needs to deal with the hatred in his own heart if he wants to bring more love to the country.”

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Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnns-gergen-trump-needs-to-deal-with-the-hatred-in-his-own-heart/

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Video at the link.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Just Wow, off the charts

If you want to drive a stake deep into the heart of personality, there it is

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. I don't think love is a meaningful notion for Trump.

I don't think he loves anyone except himself (and the experts claim that underlying narcissism is intense subconscious self-loathing, so maybe not even that). He's full of anger and hate and a desire to "win" by debasing everyone who doesn't worship at his feet. He can't deal with the hatred in his heart because there's nothing there but hatred.

[TexasBushwhacker]

6. I think he loves his kids, but that's about it n/t

[jrthin]

7. And I don't think that's a healthy kind of

love, especially when it may pertains to Ivanka.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Narcissists love their kids only because the kids are extensions of themselves.

[riversedge]

11. For his family--it seems to be a possessive type of love-not the kind that lets members

be free to be themselves. Trump owns them in many ways.

[VermontKevin]

19. He does not love his children. He loves those extensions of himself that

he sees in his children. That is narcissism.

[BannonsLiver]

14. I don't think joy is either

I was thinking while mowing the yard just now this man has probably never experienced real joy at any point in his life that didn't come at the expense or harm of someone else. He's a deeply miserable, unhappy person IMO.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. You can't be joyful if your whole soul is angry all the time.

I wonder if he ever really enjoys anything. Everything he does seems to be intended to impress others or to make him look good. Even the thing he seems to like, which is golf, probably isn't truly enjoyable for him because he is known to cheat all the time. If he's cheating it means that what means the most to him is that he wins. He can't just enjoy being outside walking around on a nice day. He seems to have no interest in music or art; he doesn't go to concerts or plays; he doesn't travel for enjoyment; he doesn't relax on a beach (a sight I do not want to see anyhow); he doesn't go fishing or sailing; he doesn't read for enjoyment; he doesn't play with his young son or his grandchildren; he doesn't even go to the movies.

How can you live without refreshing your soul in some way? That must be why his soul is so dead and joyless.

[BannonsLiver]

17. Zero intellectual curiosity. Nada. Zip.

And I can't imagine what it would be like to go through life feeling like I have to win at everything all the time. No wonder he's madder than a box of frogs.

[IronLionZion]

18. His favorite daughter and grandchildren are Jewish

and one would think that he might denounce people who threaten his own progeny, but nope. He needs their support more than he needs his own flesh and blood.

He's truly irredeemable. There's no healing the deep hatred in his heart.

[BootinUp]

3. Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam!

[TNNurse]

4. Heart? He has a heart? or a soul???

[LakeArenal]

12. or a brain

or a vocabulary
or empathy
or elegance
or beauty
or any thing resembling humanity

[yellowcanine]

5. Bingo. And there it is. Where are his "Christian" pastor buddies?

It is what they claim to be good at. Franklin Graham and Jerry Falwell Jr., are you listening?

[riversedge]

9. Good on Gergen. He actually said on national TV what I think many of us have always thought--

There is hatred for so many deep inside of Trump--and it shows in how he treats people and talks about them and lashes out at them.

[True Dough]

10. Trump is this character, only orange

[Danascot]

13. His father made him feel like a POS

He bought into it long ago and he hates himself. At 71, he's probably not going to get over it.

[Gothmog]

16. Gergen is correct

Trump is full of hate and so cannot deal with the hatred of others

[dalton99a]

20. Trump is a hateful soulless ghoul devoid of human values

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. Locking - opinion, not news

This is just repeating the opinion of an analyst. Please repost in GD. Thanks.