People are treating Trump like a battered. abused woman treats her partner, spouse, BF.

[Grasswire2]

STOP being surprised that he batters us EVERY DAY!

Stop hoping that he will change.

Stop expecting him to act with maturity, insight, honor, civility.

It just isn't in him. He's not only drugged, but unbalanced.

And with evil intent.

So stop expecting him to normalize.

[dalton99a]

1. Constantly looking for a glimmer of humanity in the void

when there is nothing there. Absolutely nothing.

Just pure evil from hell.

[radius777]

2. Exactly, the media especially does this.

There are numerous 'journalist' from supposed 'liberal' papers like WaPo and NYT who constantly make excuses for Trump, like a battered spouse would, i.e. 'at least he didn't beat me today.. he means well..' type rationalizations and fawning.

Trump and his base are traitors and fascists with zero redeemable qualities, period.

He lost the popular vote by 3 million votes, was installed by Putin and is a thoroughly illegitmate 'president'.

[Grasswire2]

7. YES!

It's a media story every day.

Will he act presidential? Will he act presidential now? Will he?

Meanwhile, his belligerence and implied violence triggers every abused American.

Every freaking day.

When we see that contorted red face, the waving hands, the ugliness of his psyche....

We are triggered. And the national conversation gives us no relief.

[dalton99a]

8. +1. The media created the monster and are complicit in his crimes

They made him a TV celebrity and promoted his fraudulent reality show and business books, glossed over his past and business failures, gave him unfiltered and free 24/7 coverage for his presidential campaign while hounding Hillary and spreading false rumors about her at every turn, and throughout his presidency have acted like either servile lap dogs or willing stenographers who pretend to be helpless hostages.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

3. A heartless bastard can't suddenly grow a heart

I just watched the videos with the Mississippi immigrant’s children left alone

[Fyrefox]

4. A train wreck of a presidency

He won't change; he won't and hasn't grown in the office, and is not capable of it. If anything, he's gotten worse. He was grossly unqualified and unfit for the office from the beginning, and yet his supporters either don't believe this, or simply don't care, seeing in Trump some reflection of themselves...

[raccoon]

5. Wish I could give this 100 recs. Nt

[RobinA]

6. Yeah

This is a good analogy. People continue to look for glimmers of something that can pass for "not horrible,"