Not a Violation of Agreement
Kim Jong Un and North Korea tested 3 short range missiles over the last number of days. These missiles tests are not a violation of our signed Singapore agreement, nor was there discussion of short range missiles when we shook hands. There may be a United Nations violation, but..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 2, 2019
Kim Jong Un Won’t Disappoint Trump
…..Chairman Kim does not want to disappoint me with a violation of trust, there is far too much for North Korea to gain – the potential as a Country, under Kim Jong Un’s leadership, is unlimited. Also, there is far too much to lose. I may be wrong, but I believe that……
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 2, 2019
Trump’s Friend Has Beautiful Vision
….Chariman Kim has a great and beautiful vision for his country, and only the United States, with me as President, can make that vision come true. He will do the right thing because he is far too smart not to, and he does not want to disappoint his friend, President Trump!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 2, 2019
Trump’s Tweets provide an endless series of entertainment fodder for writers.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
HA HA! Mish travels to the Grand Canyon, comes back talking non-stop about Donald Trump
Mish blog title: “TRUMP’s Tariffs: Gold Up, Everything Else Down”
Mish blog title: “TRUMP’s China Tariffs Made Matters Worse”
Mish blog title: “Unemployment Rate Remains 3.7%, Revisions NEGATIVE”
Mish blog title: “TRUMP Defends North Korea Missile Tests”
Mish blog title: “Another Undeclared War: TRUMP Threatens Full Naval Blockade”
… not a single post saying anything even remotely positive about Trump
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Mish still insists he is not obsessed with Trump and does not see the Grand Canyon through Trump Derangement Syndrome glasses
Anyone finding nothing wrong with Trump is a damn political fool
Anyone writing blog post after blog post about how bad the orange man is, without writing a single positive thing….
I look forward to Mish writing something positive about Trump, even one post — to counter balance the dozens of nasty things he writes about Trump
“Fair and balanced” and all that stuff
“Since Mish looks at the world through TDS glasses?”
WTF does Clinton stupidity have to to with blatant Trump stupidity
You have Negative TDS disease arguably worse
I Bash stupidity and stupid statements no matter who makes them – Fools think Trump is perfect
This is TDS:
“Fools think Trump is perfect” – I never said anything close to this.
What I did point out is that that last three presidents (Clinton, Bush and obama) failed miserable with North Korea, especially in preventing the development and use of nuclear weapons and ICBMs to deliver those weapons – and gave historical facts to back up that claim.
Trump has arguably done more to restrain North Korea and to ease tensions in the region than the last three presidents combined. And at no cost. And gave facts to back up that claim.
Verifiable facts presented in a logical method in order to come to reasoned conclusion.
And what is the response?
Orange man bad!
Russia, Russia, Russia!
You are a racist if you don’t agree with me!
“Trump’s Tweets provide an endless series of entertainment fodder for writers.”
And endless embarrassment for his family and the citizens of the USA.
again: Trump is anti-American in spirit. His heart is over in Asia and has been since the mid-90s
Lewis Black had a bit about George Bush having handlers. “What is, he a bear?”
I’m fairly certain if no one cared about the Bush and Obama presidencies they’d have been allowed to Tweet any random thought that crossed into their heads too. But his handlers were looking at their next job and wanted to make sure he looked “Presidential” over everything else. That meant heavy filtering and constant scrutinization of every word scripted. But given the toxicity of Trump I think they’re just letting Trump do whatever he wants. And anyone who might have questioned his judgement probably got a lot of pushback anyway.
Don’t know why editing isn’t working. Should read: “But the handlers were looking at their next job and wanted to make sure they looked “Presidential” over everything else.”
Using Safari on MacOS. Not interested in suggestions for alternative browsers.
GWB was the dumbest President in my lifetime by leaps and bounds. Trump and all the others could run mental circles around him all day.
Supporters used to defend him by pointing to his admission to Yale and his decent SAT scores, but I maintain they were either faked or the subsequent decades of cocaine and heavy alcohol consumption fried his brain. He could never have held an entry level corporate job yet he was a two term POTUS. Ain’t America grand?
So what else can Trump say? Saying anything else is admitting that he failed. Have you seen Trump say that he failed on anything he can not redirect the blame to someone else? Yeah me neither. Even as he was being defeated in every front Hitler kept blaming his generals. Narcissistic are all the same. BTW he will blame the fed when the recession hits.
The FED blames everything but itself.
Those missiles can easily reach multiple US military bases along with Japan and South Korea. Russia and China love to use North Korea to keep everyone on edge. Too bad for the people of North Korea and China and Russia who have to live under these terrible regimes with no rights.
Never forget that Kim Jong Un tortured and murdered a 22 year old American college student for taking a poster, let alone thousands of his own people.
For Trump to call this man a friend and to make kissy poo with him at their meetings is embarrassing and shows just how debased Trump’s moral qualities truly are. In fact, both men are greatly lacking in any moral or ethical qualities.
If only the world had a better class of ruthless communist dictators with nuclear weapons and ICBMs to deal with…we would all be so much better off.
Now, do you want to deal with the reality of the situation?
American presidents have been “dealing” with a maniacally paranoid and aggressive North Korea for 60+ years.
And for the last 20 years – US Presidents have tried to prevent North Korea from developing nuclear weapons and ICBMs. And have failed miserably.
So – maybe even offer a suggestion or two?
Maniacally paranoid? During the Korean war America stopped bombing raids because there were no buildings left standing, according to the generals. A quarter of the population was eliminated. There has never been a war with so much ordinance and genocidal zeal. And you think they’re the perpetrators and Americans are the victims?
I didn’t say you don’t deal with the issue, rather there are different ways with dealing with maniac dictators. I don’t think the Mr. Nice Guy and proclaiming we are in love with each other approach is working. Do you?
I would favor a firmer approach, one that reflects the atrocities that this man has committed.
Hard sanctions, constantly reminding Un of our military power and our military commitments to neighboring allies, and diplomacy for those countries who are reluctant to join in on our sanctions (although our diplomacy effort is more than compromised due to our SOS having been the former director of the CIA).
Granted, these efforts may not be 100% effective in the end, as there is only so much you can do short of war. But the constant reminder that we spend $800 billion a year on our military and that it would only take one of our ballistic missile submarines to Incinerate all of North Korea, and that sub may be sitting only 50 miles off the North Korean coast, may force Un to seriously consider how far he wants to poke the sleeping giant.
But to declare your continued friendship and admiration each time NK conducts a provocative act gives Un breathing room and time to develop and test his missile capabilities. Dumb, dumb, dumb!
You make some interesting points.
“…only the United States, with me as president…”
Megalomania unchained.
Since Mish looks at the world through TDS glasses:
Clinton gives North Korea $4 billion in “aid” to include 500,000 barrels of oil for an “agreement” for ending North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. North Korea only accelerated their nuclear weapons program.
Bush have North Korea $400 million in aid in exchange for shuttering its main nuclear reactor. North Korea took the money and kept the reactor open.
Obama used “strategic patience” as a policy for North Korea – basically letting North Korea continue to develop ICBMs and a working nuclear weapon while do nothing. Obama leaves office with a North Korea with fully functional ICBMs and functional nuclear weapons.
President Trump has already made more progress with North Korea in the past year than his predecessors managed over the course of more than two decades – in exchange for a piece of paper.
There have been no new nuclear weapons tests or provocative ICBM ballistic missile launches.
The last people President Trump needs advice from are the ones who created this mess in the first place.
I realize now that TDS also applies to Trump supporters as well.
I think the preferred nomenclature is Q-tard for supporters. They can be identified by their belief in 4D chess and seeing flip flops as signs of a strategy so brilliant that it cannot be explained in writing.
Some people just really, REALLY want to believe that Trump is their savior.
The preferred nomenclature is “one of the deplorables”
A piece of marketing genius that alienated half the population in one sentence, dividing the country in ways no other candidate has done before or since.
Kim just following orders from Beijeng,They control NK,and if tariffs aren’t lifted soon……….might they walk a couple of ICBM’s close to Japan or Okinawa.Trade wars always turn into shooting war and the Chinese have no problem at tall using North Koreans as cannon fodder.
DJT needs to complete The Farce by naming Dennis Rodman ambassador.
Hilarious! How many have died in NK’s ‘beautiful’ gulags??
Only surpassed by US military proxy wars, fake terrorism, regime change, far far surpassed.