World reaction to 'fire and fury' comments: 'Not helpful'

[struggle4progress]

Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY
Published 5:50 a.m. ET Aug. 9, 2017
Updated 10:01 a.m. ET Aug. 9, 2017

New Zealand's premier admonished him for remarks "not helpful" in a "very tense" environment. Australia's prime minister said "maximum economic pressure" was the only way to deal with North Korea. In Japan, where Nagasaki was marking the 72nd anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city, Mayor Tomihisa Taue said anxiety was spreading "that in the not too distant future these weapons could be used again" ...

China's foreign ministry appealed for calm and urged Pyongyang and Washington to refrain from using "any words or actions" that could further aggravate the situation. In Berlin, Ulrike Demmer, a spokeswoman for Chancellor Angela Merkel's government, said Germany wanted to avoid military escalation and to settle the conflict peacefully ...

Trump nevertheless appeared intent on keeping up the pressure on North Korea.

"My first order as President was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. It is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before," he wrongly said in a tweet Wednesday. Trump's first executive order, the day he took office on Jan. 20, was related to appealing the Affordable Care Act, according to the White House website. "Hopefully we will never have to use this power," Trump added in a subsequent tweet.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/08/09/not-helpful-donald-world-reaction-trumps-fire-and-fury-comments/551491001/

[Johonny]

1. Nothing makes a nuclear arsenal stronger than ever before like golfing.

seriously the rest of the world knows that he's done virtually nothing since becoming president. WTF does stonger and more powerful even mean? What programs has he created, maintained or improved? He talks more out his * than any other politician and the world knows it. He's worthless, stupid, and dangerous.

[Guilded Lilly]

2. He is not only a worthless pile of human flesh...his abject ignorance could get us all killed.

By the time his power obsessed but brainless Republican stooge boys realize that this Cretin can indeed destroy the country thus making the obscene wealth they are trying to procure null and void, it just might be too fucking late for humanity and the whole planet.

I cannot abhor these creatures enough.

[MiniMe]

3. It could end the world!