# Does Trump ever laugh? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [April 25, 2018, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-trump-ever-laugh/813072 "2018-04-25T03:34:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-trump-ever-laugh/813072/61 "2018-04-28T05:31:23Z")
Well, I sure as fuck did not vote for him. And I wouldn’t have voted for him if he had the biggest heart in the world, to everyone. It isn’t a quality that necessarily makes someone a good leader, or a bad one. It goes deeper than leadership. It’s _more_ important. ---
**Author:** ![Covfefe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Covfefe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covfefe)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-trump-ever-laugh/813072/62 "2018-04-28T07:26:11Z")
I don’t see how someone in his position could talk about nuclear weapons the way an emotionally broken child might and still sincerely care for others or not have it tarnished. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-trump-ever-laugh/813072/63 "2018-04-28T21:20:18Z")
> [@Covfefe](#): > > He treats him family differently because they’re a more permanent extension of himself than all others. > [@Jacquernagy](#): > > The thing is, this is ultimately why _everyone_ treats their family differently. Again you’re trying to normalize the malignantly deviant: yes, there are others who see their family members only as extensions of themselves; we call these people ‘sociopaths.’ Normal, emotionally healthy people are capable of seeing both their genetic reflection in their children, but also their children’s individuality. Normal, emotionally-healthy people can see their children as separate from themselves–as persons in their own right. We have no evidence that Trump is able to see his children in this normal, healthy way. But we do have evidence that he sees them only as extensions of himself–the comments about dating his approved-genetic-mirror Ivanka among them. More evidence: he does not make approving comments about those of his children who are less-pretty, less-likely to be successful. A reasonable observer might conclude that he won’t say nice things about them because he sees them as less-good mirrors of himself. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-trump-ever-laugh/813072/64 "2018-04-28T21:29:31Z")
I think to be able to laugh also means being able to laugh at oneself, which requires a certain amount of humility. Trump has none. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-trump-ever-laugh/813072/65 "2018-04-28T21:43:56Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > I think the “hots for his own daughter” thing has nothing to do with pedophiliac/incestuous urges. A genetic child is, in some ways, your reflection. If that child is successful/attractive, it is a reflection you will welcome. > > Trump loves himself so much that there is no one he’d rather make love to than himself. I think that’s what is at the heart of his inappropriate comments about how hot his daughter is. Is it creepy? Yeah, it is. But not necessarily in the way a lot of people make it out to be. Have you ever seen the way his other daughter, Tiffany, reacts to him? There is definitely something strange about the old man. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-trump-ever-laugh/813072/66 "2018-04-28T21:53:10Z")
> [@Jacquernagy](#): > > It boggles _my_ mind that people could fail to understand how someone could have a big heart to his own family and close personal friends, but be a huge asshole to everyone else. That’s my only point. Trump isn’t a nice guy, I don’t think he has any appreciation of the deeper things in life, whether it’s music, art, philosophy, nature, fishing, religion, or anything that’s not superficial or involving the acquisition of money. But I don’t think he’s some kind of sociopathic monster who lacks _all_ capacity for empathy or humor. Come on! Maybe he’s an “Incel”—involuntarily celibate. That might explain a lot of the anger and misogyny. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-trump-ever-laugh/813072/67 "2018-04-29T05:44:37Z")
Uh, how does somebody who joined in 1/16 have the handle **Covfefe**? I’m not buying that he/she is psychic or lucky. ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-trump-ever-laugh/813072/68 "2018-04-29T05:51:13Z")
I’m pretty sure you can change your name if you ask the moderators. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-trump-ever-laugh/813072/69 "2018-04-29T14:27:01Z")
> [@Jacquernagy](#): > > I’m pretty sure you can change your name if you ask the moderators. Yes, you can – I did it from my join name to this. I believe they dislike it if you want to be a frequent flyer, and would probably decline enabling name churn, but I seem to remember that one member who asked to change his/her name to **1920s Style Death Ray** was gently discouraged at first, then allowed to. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-trump-ever-laugh/813072/70 "2018-04-29T14:45:04Z")
> [@Biffster](#): > > Have you ever seen the way his other daughter, Tiffany, reacts to him? There is definitely something strange about the old man. I have. He went to kiss her cheek after a televised debate and she pushed him away. You’d be harder pressed to convince me there’s something normal about the old creep. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-trump-ever-laugh/813072/71 "2018-04-29T14:45:57Z")
Trump certainly won’t be laughing after he hears about [Michelle Wolf’s routine at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.](https://youtu.be/DDbx1uArVOM) “Like a porn star say when she’s about to have sex with a Trump, ‘Let’s get this over with.’” Stranger ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-trump-ever-laugh/813072/72 "2018-04-29T15:06:14Z")
Yeah, I saw some of that. I don’t know who she is, but she sure created an awkward few moments with Sarah Huckabee Sanders! Also, I’ll paraphrase another of her zingers: She said about Trump not being there that she would have liked to have dragged him there herself, but that Trump was a pussy you can’t grab. ---
**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-trump-ever-laugh/813072/73 "2018-04-30T04:25:40Z")
> [@Jacquernagy](#): > > It boggles _my_ mind that people could fail to understand how someone could have a big heart to his own family and close personal friends, but be a huge asshole to everyone else. That’s my only point. Trump isn’t a nice guy, I don’t think he has any appreciation of the deeper things in life, whether it’s music, art, philosophy, nature, fishing, religion, or anything that’s not superficial or involving the acquisition of money. But I don’t think he’s some kind of sociopathic monster who lacks _all_ capacity for empathy or humor. Come on! Show me a couple of examples of his empathy and humor and I will consider it. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-trump-ever-laugh/813072/74 "2018-04-30T05:14:09Z")
> [@sinjin](#): > > Show me a couple of examples of his empathy and humor and I will consider it. Well, [he loves his daughter.](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/donald-trump-ivanka-trump-creepiest-most-unsettling-comments-a-roundup-a7353876.html) So…there’s that. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-trump-ever-laugh/813072/75 "2018-04-30T12:24:25Z")
Big heart for his family, megacolon for the rest of us. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-trump-ever-laugh/813072/76 "2018-04-30T13:00:51Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Big heart for his family, megacolon for the rest of us. [Well, some more than others.](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/04/tiffany-trump-reportedly-feels-awkward-around-her-father) Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-trump-ever-laugh/813072/77 "2018-05-09T13:30:46Z")
> [@Jacquernagy](#): > > He is not a “psychopath” Psychopath, no. Narcissist, to an extremely high degree. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-trump-ever-laugh/813072.md?page=3)