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Upon learning of former FBI Director Robert Mueller’s death, President Donald Trump issued a public statement that said, “Good, I’m glad he’s dead.”

Before I say anything else, I must make a personal confession. If Trump had died rather than Mueller, my first thought would have been, “Good, I’m glad he’s dead.”

In fact, ever since I saw Joan Baez wearing a shirt with the words printed on the front: Is He Dead Yet? I have wanted one.

So the question is, “Am I no better than Trump?”

His supporters would say no, I’m not, but they would be wrong. Of course, I’m better than Trump, and so are most people.

The reason is not complicated. Donald Trump is indisputably a very bad man, a man who is not admired by anyone with moral standards, a man who is the worst example of what a human being should be, the kind of person responsible parents would never want their child to grow up to be like.

Robert Mueller, on the other hand, by all accounts was a good man, a very good man, actually, a man to be admired, a man whose example others could follow. To mourn the death of a person like him is a way of showing respect for who he was in his life.

Donald Trump is not someone worth respecting. His life has been consumed with himself. He does not demonstrate any capacity for empathy, for humility, for acknowledging the achievement of others. He is eaten up with envy and revenge.

He is rightfully the world’s most hated political leader, at the least ranked among those most despised by others. The world will breathe a sigh of relief when he is out of office.

So, yes, I believe I am a far better person than Donald Trump even though I would have said I was glad had he died instead of Robert Mueller.

But what I would have said wouldn’t have mattered. What he said does because of the office he holds.

That is why his comment about Mueller was so significant. His words reflect on our nation as a whole, but as always he was thinking of no one other than himself and his petty grievances.

He cares nothing about the responsibilities that go with being President. It never occurs to him that what he says should reflect the best about us as a people instead of the worst.

He has demeaned the highest office in our democracy while doing everything he can to undermine the other two branches of our government.

In short, he is a disgrace to everything being President of the United States means because he is determined to normalize moral rot.

I hate the fact that he is the face of our nation to the rest of the world. Most of us are not like him, but that is a hard sell around the world when a certain segment of Americans elected him twice, corrupt and mentally disturbed as he is.

Those people have proven to other nations that what happened in Germany when millions tragically gave Hitler their support can still happen. Trump is America’s version of Adolph Hitler.

It’s true that in spite of his numerous morally reprehensible acts, Trump has not reached Hitler’s level of malevolence yet.

But I have no doubt that they are cut from the same piece of immoral cloth. No matter what Trump hasn’t done, he has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that there is nothing he won’t do to serve his own interests, including starting a war.

He did that to take attention away from the Epstein files, as I argued in my last blog, and he succeeded. But think about what that means. People have died because Trump will stop at nothing to serve his own interests.

All human beings, myself included, are flawed. We are capable of doing good things and capable of doing bad things, and most of us have done or will do both in our lives.

But people like Donald Trump have been so damaged psychologically that their evil tendencies overwhelm the good ones. Experts have been telling us for years that he suffers from what is called Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD).

According to the Mayo Clinic, people with ASPD “consistently show no regard for right and wrong and ignore the rights and feelings of others…tend to purposely make others angry or upset and manipulate or treat others harshly or with cruel indifference [while lacking] remorse or do not regret their behavior.”

Those symptoms describe Trump’s behavior perfectly, which means he has no business being President of the United States, but here we are nonetheless.

The hard truth is, we will continue to endure the kind of disgusting public comments he made about Robert Mueller for the foreseeable future.

But at least we can take comfort in knowing that he in no way represents who we are as Americans, at least most of us.

And when he is no longer President we will celebrate our freedom anew, and when he is dead we will be glad he is.