Phillip Mudd on CNN ...

[NanceGreggs]

... just said about Trump: "This man has the empathy of a cockroach."

That pretty well sums it up.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. So damn true.

[FakeNoose]

14. Whoops

The word got out, here they come.

[Stuart G]

2. k and r..nt

[greeny2323]

3. I object

This is unfair to cockroaches.

[Boomerproud]

4. Those SOB's are hard to get rid of.

n/t

[meow2u3]

5. He IS a cockroach!

And a radioactive cockroach at that!

[mcar]

6. Watched it. Loved it.

[DemoTex]

7. Actually .. Trump is more like this critter

[BumRushDaShow]

11. Or better, this one

[The Wizard]

8. He's a blood sucking parasite

He can't spell empathy.

[stonecutter357]

9. K&R

[BigmanPigman]

10. I heard it on the TV as I was cooking and said "HAH!" robustly.

I had a smile on my face for a few minutes as I ripped my chicken apart (de-boning it).

[PJMcK]

16. Isn't that called "boning" the chicken?

No joke. I once watched Miss Julia Child remove all the bones from a chicken while keeping all of the meat in place. She referred to this process as "boning the bird" which I thought was hysterical. Then she stuffed it with ham, cheese and herbs. After roasting it, it was like a chicken loaf cordon bleu. Of course, I had to try to make it and it was delicious. The mess, however, took two days to clean up. Never again.

[BigmanPigman]

18. My mom always calls it de-boning a chicken and she

watched original Julia Child on TV and is a great cook. The first sentence my niece said was, "Nana is an excellent cooker" which she learned from my dad. My sister and I had chores after school and one was "de-bone the chicken" so I always call it that.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

21. ❤️

I love this story!

P.S. Lord Fatass is an embarrassment to cockroaches everywhere.

[BigmanPigman]

24. This was stuck in my mind so I pulled out my copy of The Way To Cook

and Julia wrote, "Chicken legs may be boned and stuffed..." so I think you are correct.

[Alice11111]

22. Well, de boning sounds netter. Boning reminds me of Mike

Pence and mother.

[NastyRiffraff]

26. I love Julia but

that's too much like work. I can chop up a chicken, but the bones are left where they should be.

[PJMcK]

27. It was a disgusting mess!

Of course, when Miss Julia did it, it was elegant and spotless!

Tasted awesome but I won't do that again.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

12. Just the empathy? Is that all? NT

[calimary]

13. Yep.

[WinkyDink]

15. We're in yuuuge trouble if he also has the survivability.

[unblock]

17. !

[fleur-de-lisa]

19. Mudd has become one of my favorite analysts on CNN.

I like Richard Painter too, and his crusty old Texan drawl. Yes, I know he was a staffer for Chimpy, but his criticisms of Cheeto are fabulous!

[bobbieinok]

20. No empathy or compassion

Empathy from Greek - em=with, pathy=suffer

Soooo...suffer with

Compassion from Latin - com=with, passion=suffer

Soooo...suffer with

Trump is unable to 'suffer with' anyone.

[Alice11111]

23. Interesting.

[bobbieinok]

25. I'm fascinated by words

I've spent years studying, teaching German. I learned the meaning of compassion from the German word 'Mitleid,' mit=with, Leid=suffering. When I saw that, I looked up the etmology of compassion and then that of empathy.

German is a fun language - Finger is finger and Hut is hat. Sooo...Fingerhut (hat for the finger) is thimble. And Baum is tree and Wolle is wool. Sooo...Baumwolle (tree wool) is cotton.