when you say "Amoral" some facts backing it up would be appreciated for the sake of the debate.
But to humor you, here is a good summary from Olivia Troye, former Republican member of the White House Covid task force and aid to Pence: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/olivia-troye-whi...
Basically, Trump's only concern about Covid was how it would affect his re-election chances. And this isn't just some "disgruntled staffer". Basically everything she says backs up Trump's own public pronouncements of only seeing Covid as some politically motivated attack, instead of one of the most serious threats facing our nation in decades.
Trump has been extremely transparent that he only views events as how they will help or hurt him. That's a very fair definition of amoral to me.
I'd say that this is the default behavior of majority of the population. Politicians do it probably even more. They just do not admit it.
the contradiction is that you give a pass for some people but not for donald trump only by pure political opinion.
You may argue that altruism is actually in self-interest, by making you feel good, but that’s circular logic[1].
[1] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_egoism#Circularity
Not exceptions but ratio of altruistic vs self-centric actions would be I think less than 1%. That is based on my life time experience. Maybe somebody else has better one.
As for the world being a sad place: well it is. The amount of people in need is staggering.
This is fake news. Trump was one of the first Western leaders that reacted to COVID, closing the borders to China back in February. He was relentlessly mocked as a result, accused of being racist.
Edit: looks like some people disagree with facts.
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/trumps-snowballing-china-t...
> On Jan. 31, the Trump administration declared a public health emergency for the novel coronavirus and announced travel restrictions to and from China, effective Feb. 2.
Its true that the problem was virtually unsolvable regardless of policy for pretty much every Western country (except a few small / sparsely populated islands), the virus started spreading way before it was detected, but that’s hindsight.
Donald Trump is literally on tape with Bob Woodward saying he deliberately downplayed it.
It depends on the definition of amoral that each one has
For many people, dating porn stars while married would be a good definition... but some adults have open marriages, that's true.
Most people in the planet would say that snatching babies from their parents (and basically laughing about it) is definitely amoral. Double bonus if you do it while accusing other to conspire to kidnap children without showing any proof of that.
And telling citizens for months to go out unprotected in the middle of a potentially lethal disease, when you are fully aware of the danger and after more than 200.000 people died for this disease, is not much better.
that leaves us with covid testing. On June 21st, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McAnany was asked to verify if Trump had ordered testing to be slowed down. She responded, “No, he has not directed that. Any suggestion that testing has been curtailed is not rooted in fact.” She added, “The president was trying to expose what the media often times does, they ignore the fact that the US has more cases because we have more testing.” She added, “It’s a fact the media readily ignores.”
When asked to clarify that the comment Trump made about slowing down testing wasn’t true, McEnany responded, “It was a comment that he made in jest, a comment he made in passing, specifically with regard to the media coverage...when you test more people, you find more cases.” so not a fact.
see. im probably gonna be downvoted for this because people are not factual and just hate the guy and while there are reasons to hate him they need to be concrete and real
Yes, In the last 4 years while Trump was in charge it was. He had enough time and political resources and green light at senate. Could have stopped it at any time. He didn't.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_administration_family_se...
No, that isn't how it works. The policy is that children gets torn away from their family if the family gets prosecuted for a crime. That policy existed long before Trump. The only thing that changed under Trump was removal of lenience against parents, meaning parents now got prosecuted at same rate as other border crossers.
This is completely false. Family separation was never a policy of any administration until Trump.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_administration_family_se...
https://dailycaller.com/2018/06/19/photos-obama-immigration-...
This is fake news. This was Obama-era policy (or at least started with Obama).
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-build-cages-immigran...