UPDATED: Trump: We'd Be at War With North Korea if Not For Me

[DonViejo]

Source: Mediate

by Ken Meyer | 7:40 am, July 3rd, 2018

As Donald Trump delivered a new series of morning Twitter ramblings, he slammed the “fake news” media while defending his administration’s handling of North Korea.

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When the president met with Kim Jong Un in Singapore several weeks ago, he insisted that he reached an understanding with the dictator that will inevitably result in North Korea’s denuclearization. Even though the agreement Trump signed with Kim didn’t spell out any specific framework for the rogue nation’s denuclearization, the president has insisted that North Korea is no longer a nuclear threat to the United States.

Many political observers and media figures have recently expressed new skepticism about talks with North Korea, particularly due to indications that they don’t really intend to denuclearize. Satellite imaging suggests that the North Koreans are making improvements to their nuclear infrastructure, and reports say they’ve kept up nuclear production at secret locations.

Oh, and a minor note here: it seems Trump is back to calling the media the “fake news” and the ” opposition party” after the recent attack on the Capital Gazette.

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Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-wed-be-at-war-with-north-korea-if-not-for-me/

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UPDATE:

Trump Rails Against ‘Crazy’ Maxine Waters, Dems: ‘How Can They Win’ Midterms When They’re ‘Ripping Apart’ ICE?

by Aidan McLaughlin | 7:22 am, July 3rd, 2018

President Donald Trump is working hard to win back the narrative on immigration, using calls to abolish ICE to accuse Democrats of disrespecting U.S. law enforcement.

Since the Trump administration’s policy of separating child migrants from their families at the Southern Border caused a public outcry, calls to abolish ICE have grown popular amongst Democratic lawmakers, including Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris.

Trump and his allies have used those calls to claim that Democrats are tarnishing ICE agents themselves, and the president took to Twitter on Tuesday morning to preview the political angle he’s pushing ahead of the November midterm elections.

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Trump then asked how Democrats “can do well in November” given they are, according to him, “weak on the Border and weak on Crime.”

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https://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-rails-against-crazy-maxine-waters-dems-how-can-they-win-midterms-when-theyre-ripping-apart-ice/

[Snellius]

1. "only the Opposition Party, which includes ..."

anyone who tells you the truth, most women, any man who's not deplorable, every other country in the world, and everyone else but me.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Yeah, right...all you are guilty of, is

pathetically whining like a big man baby.

[left-of-center2012]

3. "rough criminal elelments"

"elelments" ?

Trump once told us he has one of the smartest brains in the world,
but he never said whose brain,
or if he keeps it in a jar.

[Norbert]

4. We may be owned by North Korea because of you.

You pathetic ass hole.

They are doubling down on nukes and you look the other way.

[left-of-center2012]

5. "Crazy Maxine Waters, said by some ..."

"... said by some"

One of Trump's favorite lines (and lies).

[Jedi Guy]

11. Citation needed.

The media should add that next to his wild claims.

[janterry]

6. FU Donnie

I am so sick of it.

[Freethinker65]

7. Creating a problem, then expecting praise for solving it? Fucking delusional.

Oh. And by all means keep attacking women in power. It might scare his base, but it only makes sane women see him for the misogynist he is.

And remember Trump is the FACE of the Republican Party. Hahahahaha

[watoos]

9. Yeah, what he said was pretty nutsy.

His bad self almost started a war with North Korea but his good self held a summit which prevented his bad self from going to war.

Ya boy, ok. How many different selfs are floating around in his head?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. We are STILL at war w NKorea in two big ways

1) They only signed an armistice, never a peace treaty. So the Korean War never ended and the US is still at war with North Korea.

2) The NorKs have been conducting low-grade covert cyber warfare against the West and the US for many years.

Trump has given away more to the North Koreans than any previous President and got nothing in return. He gave Kim an international summit and wants to give him a second one.

North Koreans have expanded missile production.

[heaven05]

10. fuck you trump

your blustering strategy is not working asshole!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In fact you obscene and transparent foreign policy is so comical. I would laugh if I wasn't so terrified of being hiroshima'd by our own nations leaders.

[sinkingfeeling]

12. And who would have started a war with North Korea except you?

[KY_EnviroGuy]

13. The entire planet should disregard tRump on social media.

We somehow need to put a stop to this childish madness. If it ain't on WH stationary, it does not mean a thing.

Nuf sed.......

[Botany]

15. Trump is the crazy man on the bench in the park

n/t

[KY_EnviroGuy]

20. K&R. Yes, and if it were not for our nation's obsession with social media....

this crazy man would still be still selling over-hyped real estate from that symbolic park bench.....

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. Generally that is true. But even nonsense needs an answer: Usually a simple "No" is sufficient.

Silence can be taken as concession, but a simple "No" is minimal engagement with insanity.

Imagine if the "realdonaldtrump" twitter feed were filled with thousands of "No" to each of his tweets.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

24. That's not the issue, Bernardo.

tRump uses Twitter to:
* have instant access to all his followers 24/7 without even being before the press, providing him with one-on-one mind control (it has the illusion of being a personal message). I would further submit that few of his followers read any of the follow-up posts because they know he's going to get blasted (and they love it).
* have instant access to millions of people of all stripes across the globe from kings to cobblers and just like Putin's theatrical mind control agents, this method sows the seeds of confusion with his fog of contradictions, deception and lies.
* have the privilege of claiming social media is informal or "off the cuff" when in reality, many influential people take this shit very seriously.
* instill an illusion that he controls much of the American system of governance from Justice to State, Commerce and the Treasury.

I think we're all suffering from the illusion that private scrutiny of official messaging has the same power as public scrutiny which traditionally has been done by the press, which supposedly provides a high degree of transparency.

Sorry for the rant, but this just is not the way a president is supposed to be a participant in government instead of leading some to think he IS government.

[Javaman]

14. oh orange asshole that's a damned if we do and damned if we don't situation.

we are only not at war with them because you gave them everything they wanted and we got shit.

[Tracer]

16. More baloney from the low-rent Elmer Gantry.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2018/07/02/the-administration-says-north-korea-giving-its-nukes-result-trump-dealmaking-not/spxUQmCWcsy3MhfoSi85PO/story.html
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“I FINISHED the North Korea-US summit meeting successfully, so we’d like your country to make efforts to get the sanctions lifted as soon as possible,” Kim Jong Un told Chinese President Xi Jinping at a summit in Beijing on June 19-20.

“I’ll make my utmost efforts,” Xi told him, according to the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun.

A week later, Russia and China began circulating a draft press statement calling on the United Nations Security Council to relax sanctions placed on the newest member of the nuclear club. While the Chinese haven’t officially removed sanctions, experts say that there’s evidence they’ve relaxed their enforcement.

That’s what the end of Donald Trump’s vaunted “maximum pressure” sanctions regime looks like. North Korea is achieving its goals — while the president is attempting to fool the American people into believing he got something meaningful in return, and hoping they fall for his flimflam.

[videohead5]

17. So he stopped the war

He was going to declare himself. OMG he's crazier than I thought.

[maxrandb]

19. Yeah, kind of like this

[MyOwnPeace]

32. No, not "kind of"................

VERY much like it!

GREAT clip, by the way!!

[truthisfreedom]

18. This coming from the guy gunning for war with NK.

And now we have the additional problem of them ramping up missile production. Such a blowhard.

[Jim__]

22. Yeah, 1953 to 2017 was just a fluke while we waited for hero trump. - n/t

[Firestorm49]

23. What a BS statement.

As far as I have been able to ascertain, the only one stupid enough to believe comrade Dennison’s asinine lies, or the garbage that spews from The Most Respected Leader of North Korea, is Trump himself.

I don’t feel one iota more safe.

[bucolic_frolic]

25. Amazing - the Inventor of Birtherism also invents Peace

what's next? poop?

[Snellius]

26. Keep in mind: Trump's twitter feed is really only directed to his base

He knows he can feed his hogs with shovels full of any shit and they will slavishly eat it up. When the press in the neighboring farm says it stinks, he says it's just delicious, and claims there's something wrong with their nose.

[MyOwnPeace]

33. GREAT analogy!

[jmowreader]

27. Considering all Trump has done to goad NK into war...

...bragging the US would be at war with NK if it wasn’t for him is like a nurse injecting curare into a patient, reviving him, then claiming “your grandfather would be dead if it wasn’t for me.”

[exboyfil]

28. Sounds like we need a Congressional investigation

now. How did we come so close to war that would kill millions? What can we do to avoid it in the future? What actions did the President take to avoid this war? What was our intelligence agencies telling us about the run up to this potential war? How come the public was unaware of those issues?

[MyOwnPeace]

34. Not to be mean, but.............

what "Disneyland" congress do you think will initiate that investigation?

And THAT is the BIG PROBLEM that we face - not IQ45's idiocy, but the fact that the PUGS are NOT doing their duty of providing "checks and balances" that could stop this madness.

[Sneederbunk]

29. No Nobel Prize for you, fool.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

30. Trump WILL NOT admit he got outfoxed.......

By the much younger and well-educated and well-fed ,Kim Jong Un.

Which is why Trump is heaping praise on himself in order to save face.

[yonder]

31. Another delusion from President Jim "drink the kool-aid" Jones.

[MyOwnPeace]

35. Yes, and let's hope

we don't end up going the way of the 700+ followers of the original.............

[BadGimp]

36. PUTIN WINS AGAIN

[SeattleVet]

37. Has anyone in his ever-decreasing circle bother to tell him that we *are* at war?

The Korean conflict is still just under an Armistice agreement among the US (under the auspices of the UN Command), North Korea, and China implementing a cessation of hostilities, but no final treaty has even been negotiated.