CNN host compares Trump to "Rain Man"

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17 Jul 2018, 3:45 pm

CNN’s Anderson Cooper Compares Trump to Autistic ‘Rain Man’ Over Obsession With Hillary Clinton’s Emails

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“I just can’t imagine being Vladimir Putin and actually hearing the president of the United States go back to the well of Hillary Clinton‘s server and the 30,000 e-mails and all this stuff,” Cooper said to colleague Dana Bash. “Which he’s been like Rain Man going back to time and time again for years now, but to hear him on the world stage doing that standing next to Vladimir Putin, I mean with all the research Putin has done, it’s got to have been a surreal moment for Vladimir Putin.”

He then repeated: “It’s like Rain Man, going back to this thing time after time.”

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17 Jul 2018, 9:35 pm

I find it very annoying when people think Trump is autistic. First of all, even if he was, only a professional could know, definitely not the media or general public. Second of all, comparing someone like Trump to autistic people gives the wrong impression of autistic people, since Trump is (at least in my opinion) a bigoted jerk. Also, he's an antivaxxer (source here: http://www.trumptwitterarchive.com/highlights/vaccines).

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17 Jul 2018, 9:44 pm

ASPartOfMe wrote:

CNN host compares Trump to "Rain Man".

That's an insult to "Rainman" and real autistic people everywhere.

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20 Jul 2018, 2:47 pm

I wish I could remember the good threads that distinguish autism from narcissism to link here. Totally different things. It's not Rainman, and what an insult. It's like a bully that can't let go of a target because putting someone else down makes him feel better about himself.

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