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Sheldon Whitehouse@SenWhitehouse · Apr 14, 2025

It’s incredibly weird how many people around Trump seem to get an unhealthy pleasure from other people’s pain,…

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The thread critiques what the author views as a disturbing pattern of cruelty and sadism among people in Trump's orbit, including pleasure taken from humiliation, violence, and targeting of vulnerable groups and their families.

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  1. #1

    It’s incredibly weird how many people around Trump seem to get an unhealthy pleasure from other people’s pain, distress, and humiliation. It seems abnormal. 🧵

  2. #2

    It’s weird and twisted how fixated they are on a brutal Salvadoran prison, and taking photos with people behind bars, and bent-over shaved men. (Even caging children at the border, back in Trump One.)

  3. #3

    It’s weird how they derive joy from firing perfectly harmless people and walking them out of their offices on short notice between security personnel. And how often it’s women who get that humiliating treatment.

  4. #4

    It’s weird how they cheer plainclothes, masked federal agents snatching college kids off the street and imprisoning them for exercising their freedom of speech.

  5. #5

    It’s weird how they’ve curated a fleet of creepy internet “flying monkeys” to threaten and attack people, with sordid and gruesome threats.

  6. #6

    It’s unquestionably weird that they set those “flying monkeys” onto their targets’ family members. And weird how often it’s female family members…

  7. #7

    It’s weird how tyrants throughout history seem to attract people who have a taste for torture and cruelty. Is there some weird way people with those tastes recognize each other, that normal people can’t see?

  8. #8

    It’s just weird that any subset of humanity gets its kicks this way.