He said he feels "badly"? badLY? Fat Chance .
What? It's an adverb that's completely proper.
The sadness and depression I have over America becoming a a cesspool of evil and dishonor is unimaginable. A sweeping change from this current administration is the only cure.
An overt cesspool of evil and dishonour. They were barely hiding it before, but at least there was an attempt, however weak.
In a follow up question trump asked, "Was she good looking? How old was she?".
The fact that these pathetic assholes raped a woman as opposed to a child actually puts them ahead of the President of the United States.
Your country is FUCKED.
Rapist of women and kids feels bad for other rapists.
Notice how the fat orange child rapist didn't ask about the person who was raped!! Now, I wonder why that is...??
It is very telling that the very few times he ever openly feels bad for other people are rapists. He has next to no empathy, but what empathy he does have, is reserved for rapisst like himself. It’s because he can relate to them.
Fake news.
He felt people were unfair to the Klan and Nazis that showed up to Charlottesville since most of the people (on that side) were very good people.
It's cold self interest, he's cold blooded, has not empathy. His nemesis got appointed special prosecutor, that's why he's talking shit. He's the most transparent asshole in the world.
ive never been more certain that the USA has jumped the shark than here in 2026 listening to President Donald Trump defend rape.
What do you expect? He's also a rapist.
I mean he defended it way back in 2015~ this is the least surprising thing he's done.
Defending Rapists is basically a free spot on the bingo card.
MAGA is a man’s movement. (Just going to get this out of the way, because internet: not all).
Embedded in the loyal following are the men flailing in response to women’s lib. Remember, the real, legit push for the legal and social equality of women is only 50yrs old. We’ve been beholden to men, financially or otherwise, for millennia. Consider that. Not because it’s natural, but due to male identity, and the fact that we have what they want (nurture, our bodies, and legacy), what they’d like to continue to see molded around that identity, strangulating another human beings life and future to get it.
Fathers teach sons. By words or example. When boys, teens, and then young men grow up with “back in my day women weren’t like this”, “women aren’t women any more”, “the world treats us like shit now, in favor of women”, instead of “it’s about time” or “cool”, this can stick within the building of that male identity.
And we weren’t like this back in dads or grandpas day, true, because we didn’t have choices. Couldnt get mortgages. Take out a credit card. Have a bank account our husband couldnt rob. Have medical privacy. Never mind work place problems. That crap Nancy Wheeler dealt with in ST, real.
Rape culture travels with that mess, because that old culture came with entitlement to our lives, our bodies, and the legacy our bodies can produce. And our president is a convicted rapist. Enough good ol boys within that culture, somehow, kept his sentencing delayed until the election.
Enter the manosphere, validating all of the above, while adding blame to women for not embracing the old ways prior to the beginning of women’s lib in the 1970s.
We've jumped a train of sharks before and probably have a lot more to go.
It's sharks all the way down.
Remember, 10 years ago, he was on tape, bragging about sexual assault and because of who he is, he gets away with it.
And what happened? People latched onto the choice of the word pussy and made it all about that, and how it's "locker room talk", etc. Which is just red herring, of course, but it worked.
I have to believe we can still come back from this. I hope the election next month at least starts to set us on a better path
It's doubtful mid terms will do much.
More likely this will only be completely fixed with blood.
I feel like we jumped the shark with Vietnam, or Kaiser Insurance businessmen having a talk with Nixon about HMO is "good" when he was considering universal healthcare.
I mean, this isn’t a new position for him.
Ya know, Kavanaugh, one of our SCOTUS, was in line to rape a fellow student under similar circumstances. Just a reminder.
And Clarence Thomas sexually harassed Anita Hill.
Central park five. Gee I wonder what the difference might be
Central park five
I know you know the differences, but to spell it out it's because the Central Park 5 are innocent and also men of color.
And this is why its relevant:
https://archive.org/details/6131533-trumpdeathpenaltyad05011989
Where Trump took out full page ads in newspapers advocating for bringing back the death penalty specifically for the (now) Exonerated Five. Trump spent his own money to defame these men.
One of these things is not like the other
after what was initially a consensual encounter with two of the frat members while she was drunk
That doesn't sound very consensual to me, but then I'm not a boomer or "men's rights" activist.
He defends rape because he’s a rapist.
"We asked a rapist what he thought about these rapes and what he said, will rape you."
He said of one of the largest child sex traffickers in history "I wish her well", so no one should be surprised.
I'm sure he does.
Asshole should be in prison.
I wasn’t aware he could feel emotions for others.
In that way, he's being honest; he "feels badly," because the mechanism by which he feels feelings is fucked up, so he is bad at feeling emotions.
I guess he can empathize with rapists.
Dude fucking loves himself some Nazis too
Very fine people
I'm not surprised in the slightest. This is absolutely on brand for Trump. Anyone who thinks he'd react any other way is an idiot.

birds of a feather
Why do reporters continue to slenderize this asshole in photos?
When is he gonna give them jobs?
Blow or hand? Or do you need to be called bubba for that to happen?
OTOH, he threatened ivy league unis over Palestinian genocide protests, so it balance, right? Right?! 🥴
Hochul playing... I'll call it 3D Chess setting up Trump to [attempt to] pardon the most obvious rapists [so far].
People are getting uneasy about the mob justice on this case already - that would be disastrous if Trump was able to pardon these rapists.
Unless committed inside a place that's in exclusively federal jurisdiction, rape is a state-level crime and a federal pardon would mean nothing. Even with full federal pardons, they can still be arrested, tried, and imprisoned under state law.
The state government can only bring state charges, which Trump has no ability to pardon
That’s why I said “if Trump was able to” and not “when Trump pardons them”.
Birds of a feather…
Trump is NOT a Rapist but AFTER being found GUILTY of Rape he said he Feels SORRY for Other Rapists!
the epstein class strikes again
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