On November 2, aboard Air Force One, Donald Trump was asked about King Charles stripping Prince Andrew of his last remaining royal title. The president’s response was swift and unambiguous:
“I feel very badly… It’s a terrible thing that’s happened to the family. That’s been a tragic situation… I feel badly for the family.”
No whisper of sorrow for Virginia Giuffre – the teenager Prince Andrew is accused of assaulting three times – who, on 25 April 2025, took her own life at her farm in Western Australia.
Her family’s words say it all:
“She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking… In the end, the toll of abuse became unbearable.”
Trump mourned a prince’s lost title. He never once mourned the girl the prince allegedly raped – now gone forever.
No nod either to the dozens of girls Jeffrey Epstein trafficked. Just pity for the Windsors.
That selective sorrow is the problem.
The Pattern
Search every public remark Trump has made about Epstein’s victims. You will find no apology, no expression of regret, no “I feel sorry for those girls.” Instead, he has dismissed their advocates as partisan operatives and the unsealed documents as a “Democrat hoax.”
Now widen the lens. Farmers who lost everything in the trade wars? No public sympathy. Families who watched Medicaid vanish or SNAP benefits shrink under his budgets? Silence. Children priced out of insulin or school lunch? Not a tear.
Yet a prince who flew on the Lolita Express earns a presidential lament.
Empathy is not a finite resource, but it is a signal. When a leader broadcasts whose pain matters, the rest of us take notes. The message here is clear: royal embarrassment trumps teenage trauma; aristocratic inconvenience outweighs American insolvency.
That hierarchy is not accidental. It is a choice – and a revealing one.
The Ledger
• Prince Andrew: one disgraced title, one presidential sigh.
• Epstein’s survivors: zero expressions of sorrow.
• American farmers: bankruptcies up; zero “I feel badly.”
• Uninsured Americans: 15 million people are about to lose their health coverage; zero public regret.
• Livelihood: countless millions of Americans whose livelihood has been jeopardised by the government shutdown: not quite at the “let them eat cake” stage.
Those numbers are brutal.
If the president truly believes tragedy is measured by pedigree, he should say so plainly. Let the record reflect that his compassion has a velvet rope and a dress code.
Because the victims – whether trafficked teenagers or foreclosed farmers – deserve more than the scraps left after the royal family has been comforted.
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Trump could have also said “…I feel very badly for the anguish and damage to my family and the family’s reputation because of my association with Geoffrey Epstein…”, but he didn’t.
i believe the Epstein saga is going to blow-up despite the Trump White House trying to bury it.
Where are the names of the men who participated in this practice with Epstein: when will the girls be given their day in court, it wasn’t just Virginia Giuffre? Why wasn’t the Epstein ‘suicide’ more thoroughly investigated – he was a very wealthy man who claimed to be innocent and had the resources to employ the best legal team in the US to defend him and we are told that whilst in custody and under surveillance, he took his own life?
And why was Ghislaine Maxwell promptly moved to a low security prison after giving testimony that evidently didn’t implicate Trump but the transcripts remain confidential.
Both the Department of Justice head, Pam Bondi and new FBI Chief, Kash Patel refuse to answer simple questions posed by Democrat Senators:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkxXSnD96hE
Don’t for a moment imagine that Trump isn’t in this up to his neck. Recall Michael Wolff’s piece where he says he was at Epstein’s New York apartment and was shown photos by Epstein, including pictures of Trump with topless teenage girls sitting on his lap, and pointing and laughing at the semen stain on Trump’s trousers.
Canguro, speaking of Michael Wolff… he gave a chuckle last night when he talked about the “Epstein Ballroom.” 😀
Apropos of nothing, remind of how things ended for Caligula?
I am predicting now that whoever is President of the US in 2028, there will be no action against Trump or any of those who should be prosecuted. A probable Democratic President will use the excuse that it would be too damaging to the fabric of American Society and plead for forgiveness or som such other bullshit, given the supine quality of that side of politics now. I predict there will be no equivalent of the vindictiveness of the current WH occupant. All of this assumes of course that, despite his desire for a third term the putative King, does vacate the scene.
Looks as though the truth is starting to come out on Trump’s active involvement with the Epstein gang of misfits and paedophiles.
Ghislaine got twenty years and is now in a low security jail: she was a procurer – Trump was an alleged participant.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/12/epstein-emails-trump-spotlight
Terry, it’s about to get juicier. Adelita Grijalva was just sworn in and is now a member of Congress, meaning the Democrats now have the numbers for the vote on releasing all the files.