With Each Briefing, Trump Is Making Us Worse People
He is draining the last reserves of decency among us at a time when we need it most.
Updated at 10:40 a.m. ET on April 13, 2020.
There has never been an American president as spiritually impoverished as Donald Trump. And his spiritual poverty, like an overdrawn checking account that keeps imposing new penalties on a customer already in difficult straits, is draining the last reserves of decency among us at a time when we need it most.
I do not mean that Trump is the least religious among our presidents, though I have no doubt that he is; , Trump has shown “a complete lack of religious sensibility” unique among American presidents. (Just recently he wished Americans a “,” which suggests that he is unaware of
