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You got to give Kim Jong Un credit for this — he sure knows how to ‘push Trump’s buttons’ …
Donald Trump Tweet Thanks Kim Jong Un For “Unwavering Faith” After NYT Publishes Damning Op-Ed
by Lisa de Moraes, deadline.com — Sept 6, 2018
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Trump began this morning’s Twitter activity complimenting Kim Jong Un, who had tossed POTUS a lifeline by proclaiming his “unwavering faith in President Trump.”
To which Trump tweet-simpered in response, “Thank you to Chairman Kim. We will get it done together!” Trump is referencing his effort to get Kim to de-nuke his country, though reports indicate that, since their made-for-TV summit, the opposite has been going on in North Korea.
That tweet meshed neatly with the stunning NYT op-ed, penned by someone identified only as a senior Trump administration staffer. The op-ed asserts Trump has a preference for autocrats and dictators, and “little genuine appreciation for the ties that bind us to allied, like-minded nations.”
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Let’s just hope and pray that those Trump’s Buttons he’s pushing, don’t have some ‘bothersome football’ attached to them.
NORTH Korea has no plans to scrap its nuclear arsenal in a huge blow to Donald Trump as tensions soar on the Korean peninsular.
by Katie Mansfield, express.co.uk — Sept 10, 2018
A senior Russian official who met Kim Jong-un this weekend warned the North Korea dictator said he did not plan any unilateral steps to denuclearise.
Instead Kim is waiting for the United States to respond to steps he has already taken, Russia's RIA news agency reported.
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She also quoted Kim as saying he hoped for Russian backing in weakening US sanctions on North Korea amid fears of World War 3.
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There are some very good reasons why Woodward’s book is entitled “Fear” ...
by Rosie Perper, businessinsider.com — Sept 10, 2018
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Woodward told CBS the most "dangerous" moment of Trump's standoff with Kim came when the president went to produce another provocative tweet.
"He drafts a tweet saying, 'We are going to pull our dependents from South Korea — family members of the 28,000 people there,'" Woodward told CBS.
According to Woodward, the tweet was never sent out after back-channel communications with North Korea made clear that the nation would regard the move as a sign the US was preparing to wage war on the North.
"In that moment there was a sense of profound alarm in the Pentagon leadership that, my God, one tweet and we have reliable information that the North Koreans are going to read this as 'an attack is imminent,'" Woodward said.
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Can you imagine WWIII being started by a single threatening or bullying Tweet?
If anyone is capable of doing this, the Mad Tweeter certainly is. Especially when his “very stable genius” is calling the shots.
God help us all, if the doddering Dotard reads about Rocketman’s latest demands.
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Psst! Someone please tell me, “which Adults in the room, are in Charge, again?”