Maybe that is still pitiable, mileage may vary.

Those who can summon any sense of pity--empathy?--are capable of feeling what I am not.

I do not ask others to pity him. But I see him as a product of a process started long ago by powers that remain entrenched.

Edited to add: It's a classic pump and dump. Now they will leverage their position to take down what remains of America's safety net and justice system.

He has been wealthy enough for a long time to get the best psychological care available.

While trump may have been the bad seed, his father probably did a lot to fuck him up. But like I said, that hope or reason for redemption is dead and buried.

McConnell for one. A few in the MSM.

edited to add: But I get your feelings about him. I loathe the man.

the GOPs and the media had been doing that for decades. It's kinda their MO. It's America's MO, its premise of egalitarianism and justice notwithstanding.

was a liar, a bully and a user all his life and he was a master faker. If you met him you would think he was a handsome, wonderful guy. I don't know anyone who got close to him that wasn't conned and deeply hurt. He went through 3 wives and half a dozen children and died pretty much alone. He had written his own obit before he passed and it was full of lies including a Purple Heart which he was never awarded. He lived a sad, brutal life of destruction. He was a Trump.

like an emotional/psychological parasite, leaves their hosts depleted and no longer able to sustain them. To have to say that about a family member is harsh. I hope that those left in his wake of destruction recover and reconcile within themselves that their empathy and humanity were not wasted.