Donald Trump's problem is that he didn't get enough love as a child.

That was the assessment of Chris Jones and co-panelist Kate Woodsome, who spoke last week at Little Rock's part of the 13th Annual Whistleblower Summit & Film Festival, held at the Clinton Library.

Jones holds five degrees, including a master's in nuclear engineering, and is also an ordained minister. He responded to questions from Woodsome, who won a Pulitzer Prize as a reporter for The Washington Post, in ways that were sometimes more in line with his science side and sometimes his pulpit side.

Jones said he was speaking at another venue recently and someone asked him what he would say to Trump if given the chance.

"I would tell him that regardless of what he believes, God still loves him," Jones said he told the questioner. He said Trump is the way he is "because of a lack of love from his father, and we are living through hell because of that. I think his whole tribe has not had enough love from their parents."

"I see Donald Trump as a kind of small boy desperate for love," Woodsome said.

The two both said individuals also need to "turn up the love" in themselves as a way to combat the world's noise that overwhelms us. Asked if an emphasis on love meant giving up the fight in the face of what can appear to be a fading democracy, they said far from it. "People do extraordinary things in the name of love," Jones said.

Woodsome said people are interconnected with one person's well being tied to that...

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