Genius, and in excellent health: Reuters interview

“Russia is not helping us at all with North Korea,” Trump said during an Oval Office interview with Reuters. “What China is helping us with, Russia is denting. In other words, Russia is making up for some of what China is doing.”

  Reuters

And I thought I understood English.

“We have a very big intellectual property potential fine going, which is going to come out soon,” Trump said in the interview [speaking of China].

Trump said the damages could be high, without elaborating on how the numbers were reached or how the costs would be imposed.

Because he doesn't have a clue. I guarantee you he doesn't even know what intellectual property he's talking about.

During a 53-minute interview with a fresh Diet Coke near at hand on his desk, Trump also said he was considering a big “fine” as part of an investigation into China’s alleged theft of intellectual property; that he has lost all trust in the chief Democratic Party negotiator on immigration in the Senate; and declined to clear up conflicting reports about his use of the phrase “shithole countries” in a White House meeting, which caused an international outcry.

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“I’d sit down [to negotiate with Kim], but I‘m not sure that sitting down will solve the problem,” he said, noting that past negotiations with the North Koreans by his predecessors had failed to rein in North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs.

He blamed his three immediate predecessors, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, for failing to resolve the crisis and, a day after his doctor gave him a perfect score on a cognitive test, suggested he had the mental acuity to solve it.

He would be scared to death to sit down with Kim.

“I guess they all realized they were going to have to leave it to a president that scored the highest on tests,” he said.

Oh. My. God.

Those three guys weren't even tested for dementia. And did you see the test?

Even at that level, I'd be willing to bet the doctor had to fudge to get him to the reported 30 out of 30.

Trump said he hoped the standoff with Pyongyang could be resolved “in a peaceful way, but it’s very possible that it can’t.”

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He would not say whether the United States has been considering a limited, pre-emptive attack to show the North that the United States means business.

“We’re playing a very, very hard game of poker and you don’t want to reveal your hand,” he said.

A hard game of poker is apparently calling the other guy names. So, pokim.

Gee, I wonder why Reuters didn't publish a transcript.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.