“Never apologize.”
Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh said President Trump called him to say he should not backtrack on comments he made about Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg’s electability as a gay man.
“Hell, the president even called me about this!” Limbaugh said Monday on his show. “He said, ‘Rush, I just got to tell you something. Never apologize. Don’t ever apologize.'”
Which is all you really need to know about him. His core philosophy of life is to be indifferent to the needs of other people, to put himself first no matter what, to be a shit and to defend being a shit, to go on being a shit no matter what.
‘Never apologise’ may be Trump’s maxim, but a world in which that was widely followed would be one of grudges held and vendettas organised on a mass scale. I suggest it would rapidly become a Hobbesian state of war of all against all, and some level of Dante’s Hell.
The apology is one of those institutions which makes civilisation possible; a fact clearly and unfortunately beyond the comprehension of the present tenant of the Oval Office.