Trump Praises Perpetrators and Blames their Victims

In Trump’s political language, empathy flows upward, blame downward — a reversal that confuses justice itself.

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Nov 03, 2025

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President Donald Trump participates in a working bilateral lunch meeting with ROK President Lee Jae Myung, Wednesday, October 29, 2025, at the Gyeongju National Museum in Gyeongju, South Korea. | Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok via Flickr

By Brian Daitzman

Donald Trump’s politics exalts the aggressor and scorns the harmed. It is a politics of m…

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