Donald Trump never had a friend

[Cyrano]

Stop for just a moment and think about going through life without ever having had a friend. Seriously. Stop reading for just a few seconds and think about it.

Trump has spent his whole life surrounded by sycophants, -- those from whom he wanted something, -- or those who wanted something from him.

And my guess is that all of his blood relatives fear him and/or despise his existence, but none of them consider him a friend.

I don't think I've ever known anyone who didn't have a friend. No matter who or what they were, no matter their circumstance in life, everyone I've ever known had at least one person they could call a friend.

Imagine going through life without at least one friend.

Yet, Donald Trump has done exactly that. He's gone through 70 plus years using and abusing every other human being with whom he's come into contact, and many millions of others that he never met.

It seems that should be worthy of pity. But Donald Trump long ago used up any pity that any fool may have had for him. His MAGAts aren't his friends. They're his worshipers. No Republican is his friend. They despise him and live in fear of his base. Those who surround him aren't his friends. They're in it for whatever they can steal for themselves.

A human being who never had at least one single friend is both a horror and extremely rare. But don't waste an ounce of pity on Trump. If any human being ever deserved to be friendless, alone and shunned in this world, it's him.

[Wounded Bear]

1. "A friend is just someone who hasn't figured out what they want from you yet..."

Quote from an NCIS-LA episode from the cynical cop friend of Deeks. Of course he followed it with, "What do you want?"

[PufPuf23]

2. Only a matter of time until the MAGAts turn on tRump as well.

Trump has no future once out of office and removed from the WH. The revulsion towards him will limit his post POTUS movements even if never jailed. His family will turn on tRump even, he will be reviled in any setting.

He is going to get ever desperate and dangerous until gone.

[intrepidity]

3. Or a PET!

At least most antisocial people without friends *usually* have great non-human friends.

But not Trump.

[spooky3]

5. very good point! nt

[Funtatlaguy]

7. A puppy or a kitten can melt any human heart.

Which excludes Trump who has no heart and isn’t human.

[spooky3]

4. I had a boss who also was a narcissist (though not as sociopathic as Trump) and he

once told me he had many acquaintances but no one that he considered a friend.

Gee, I wonder why...

[keithbvadu2]

6. Any school chums ever had a good word for him?

Any school chums ever had a good word for him?

I don't remember hearing of any.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

8. He even ignores his children, save for Ivanka.

Poor Barron. He is the one I actually pray for.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. I'd feel sorry for him if he weren't so destructive and malevolent.

But it's probably true that nobody really loves him, and he doesn't love anybody. Malaria seems to be attached to him for her own narcissistic reasons but I don't think she actually loves him. His kids seem to be suffering from advanced cases of Stockholm Syndrome but I can't imagine that they will grieve sincerely when he's gone. And it's abundantly obvious that any love his withered soul is capable of is reserved exclusively for himself. Friends? Only hangers-on and people with mutual interests.

Trump is an empty and pathetic person. He doesn't have friends, people who love him, pets who love him, the enjoyment of anything other than golf (and that only so he can show off his properties and cheat at the game) and television shows that feature him. He doesn't go to concerts or plays or art museums (he has a fake Renoir which he insists is real and which he appreciates only a status symbol); he doesn't enjoy nature; he doesn't read; he doesn't even enjoy excellent cuisine. Even his taste in interior decorating is strictly gold-leafed dictator chic, chosen only for the display of wealth and not for any aesthetic value. Everything he has and does is only for show and is therefore hollow and meaningless. He's living in a Hell of his own creation.

[Cyrano]

12. Well said and perfectly accurate, Velveteen Ocelet

You've described an empty, soulless creature who possess nothing but self love. He has lived a meaningless life, contributed nothing, and is nothing more than a stain on the human species.

[ZZenith]

10. Jeffrey Epstein.

Closest he ever came to having a “friend.”

[Cyrano]

13. Really? A pedophile pimp was his friend?

Or was he just another enabler?

[ZZenith]

14. Closest thing he ever got to a friendship, yes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-called-epstein-a-terrific-guy-before-denying-relationship-with-him/2019/07/08/a01e0f00-a1be-11e9-bd56-eac6bb02d01d_story.html

[Cyrano]

16. Really?? Epstein enabled Trump's urges regarding pedophilia

That's not friendship. It's a shared depravity.

[ZZenith]

17. And it's the closest thing he'll ever have to a friendship, yes.

[PatSeg]

11. Yep, nary a friend in the world

He likes to frequently refer to certain foreign leaders as, "He's a good friend of mine", but no one really likes him and he knows that. The man is so pathetically needy, but he makes friendship impossible. Eventually, he finds reasons to throw everyone under the bus.

Once he no longer has any power or money, he'll find out that he doesn't even have any fake friends anymore.

[world wide wally]

15. IF Trump did have a friend, I wouldn't even want to know that person either.

Anyone who would tolerate such an obnoxious pig would have to have many of the same qualities and I couldn't take it.
Period.

[OLDMDDEM]

18. O can see why.

He is an asshole!

[Laelth]

19. It's not as rare as you think.

As many as 1 in every 8 persons suffers from a Cluster B personality disorder. None of them have friends. They have people that they use. It’s purely transactional. It’s not friendship.

-Laelth