Donald Trump has a strange way of commemorating September 11

"In a hypothetical survey conducted by one of the worst pollsters, Amazon Washington Post / ABC, which predicts that I would lose 15 points against Crooked Hillary (how did that go?), Sleepy Joe , Pocahontas and virtually everyone else would beat me in the general election, " tweeted Trump at 8:12. "This is a bogus poll to strengthen their Democratic partners, I have not even started campaigning and I am fighting against Fake News like Russia, Russia, Russia. Last night, Dan Bishop, close-up in polls, wins, easier than 2016! "

Once Trump arrived at the Pentagon to lay a wreath on the site of the lost people memorial when an aircraft struck the building 18 years ago, he quickly returned the subject to himself.

"I remember very well the first time I heard the news," Trump said. "I was at home watching a great professional TV show." Early in the morning, Jack Welch, the legendary head of General Electric, was about to be interviewed, so they suddenly cut the media. " Trump then went on to talk about the different theories that were circulating in real time about what had happened – "It was a boiler fire, but I knew that the boilers were not at the top of a building. Kitchen explosion at Windows The world … Nobody knew what was going on "- before adding that he" had seen a second plane enter the second tower "from the window of his office in the center Manhattan City.

Later in the speech, Trump stepped aside to talk about his decision to cancel the Taliban talks scheduled with Camp David. "We hit our enemy harder than ever before and this will continue," promised Trump, adding that even though the United States would not use nuclear power in Afghanistan, "they would not be able to do that. Have never seen anything like it. "

Although some elements of the past or the past are being broadcast on the Internet every anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it is striking to see how much the President of the United States, speaking to a group of families of victims – looked at the # 39; inside. Yes, he talked about what he was doing that day. What he was watching on TV. What he thought had happened. But then, his latest drama about how he decided to cancel talks with the Taliban.

This, coupled with his inability to master himself to criticize Twitter on polls suggesting he could lose by 2020, reveals something profoundly true about Donald Trump: it's someone, unlike our former presidents of both parties, who seldom get to someone else's shoes. He likes his comfortable (and expensive) loafers very much.

This lack of empathy was, in the eyes of many long-time political observers, Trump's Achilles' heel. I can not even tell you the number of conversations I've had during the 2016 campaign in which politicians predicted that Americans would never elect someone who, like the Bill Clinton said, could not feel your pain.

Voters therefore knew what they were getting. But in solemn moments like today's, it's hard not to be struck by the extent to which Donald Trump acts as a different president from each person who has held the position before him.