Nonetheless. this is just how he operates. there s this is constant motif, everything that came before me was awful and bad and wrong and we were dupes. and now everything is great. but he goes overseas, he doesn t put the country first as john mccain said and i made the same observation immediately when i learned of his comments. he s putting putin and putting his own, donald trump s own narrow personal self-interest before the country. and that is a terrible quality to have in the president of the united states. and after an insult from kim jong-un, calling him either old or a lew na tick or some such thing, a dotard he tweeted to squim jong ung why would he insult me old when i would never call him short and fat. oh, well, i try so hard to be his friend and maybe some day that will happen. trying to figure out how that advances relations in the region against north korea. well, it doesn t.
Friend and maybe some day that will happen. at a news conference the president suggested it is mot impossible to imagine he could be friend the withed leader who he has also called result rocket man. strange things happen in life. that might be a strange thing to happen. but it is certainly a possibility. if that did happen it would be a good thing for, i can tell you, for north korea. but it would also be good for lots of other places and it would be good for the world. trump insulted kim jong-un after underinorth korean oh fil called him a dotard. a north korean soldier was shot and injured overnight while defecting to south korea via a demilitarized zone. president trump backtracking from his original suggestion that he believed vladimir putin over his own intelligence.
Saturday in a statement on north korean state media pyongyang called it a warmonger s visit by the destroyer of world peace and stability and begged for a nuclear war. called him a dotard or old lieu nannic, depending on the translation. both mean the same thing, as is customary for trump he responded pretty quickly on twitter, why would kim jong-un imsult me by calling me old, when i would never call him short and fat? oh well, i try so hard to be his friend, and maybe someday that will happen. trump was asked to elaborate on that friendship line while at a news conference in vietnam. i think anything s a possibility. strange things happen in life, that might be a strange thing to happen, but it s certainly a possibility. if that did happen, it would be a good thing for, i can tell you, for north korea, but it would also be good for lots of
And fury like the world has never seen. rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime. translator: whatever trump expected, he will see a response about that. we will control the mentally deranged u.s. dotard with fire. bret: there is one place where the u.s. and north korea ci or at least face-to-face. the demilitarized zone, marking the border between north and south korea. in the armistice agreement struck to pause the korean war. we operate at a higher level of tension than the rest of the peninsula just because it s a pretty strategically important area. based on what s going on outside
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