Donald Trump didn’t only send angry tweets the morning after winning the New Hampshire Republican primary. He also made the media rounds offering up foreign policy wisdom that would make even Dick Cheney cringe. On North Korean leader Kim Jong Un:
“I would get China to make that guy disappear in one form or another very quickly,” Trump said on “CBS This Morning.” He didn’t clarify whether disappearing was equivalent to being assassinated but said, “Well, I’ve heard of worse things, frankly.”
Somehow Trump is going to get China to disappear Kim Jong Un even though China is the biggest problem for the United States:
“China has control — absolute control — over North Korea. They don’t say it, but they do,” Trump explained. “And they should make that problem disappear. China is sucking us dry. They’re taking our money. They’re taking our jobs. They’re doing so much. We have rebuilt China with what they’ve taken out.”
So basically, China owes us one Kim Jong Un disappearance in exchange for all the jobs? I’m not sure that’s how China would see it. But who am I to question Donald Trump’s force of personality and ability to bend the entire Chinese government to his will? Doubtless he’ll get this done, just like he’ll get Mexico to pay for his border wall.