Likely where he honed the skill.
I’ve had them sit in a chair across from me and sob “I miss my girlfriend.”
Successfully holding back my tears, I’d always just tell them that even the paperwork to get them out could not be finished until they’d been there about 9 weeks...a week AFTER they will have finished basic training. (True info...I didn’t lie.)
They’d sit there stunned. Most of them figured it out, but there were some that kept crying. I always figured they were hiding some kind of disorder that would eventually get them out anyway.
Makes me wonder now about John Boehner.