Thursday, June 14, 2018

In case you missed it --- and you did



And listen to the propaganda.  You don't need to know what it says.  (Trump would like an American video of praise matching that tone.)*

Also, you may not have missed this, but I did...
Donald Trump left this week’s summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un having granted a huge last-minute concession: promising to stop what he called “war games” with South Korea.

The move reportedly blindsided both Seoul and US military officials. Trump may have got that idea from an unusual source, the Wall Street Journal reports (paywall):
Trump had an idea about how to counter the nuclear threat posed by North Korea, which he got after speaking to Russian President Vladimir Putin: If the U.S. stopped joint military exercises with the South Koreans, it could help moderate Kim Jong Un’s behavior.
That discussion between Putin and Trump reportedly happened in summer 2017. The pair have only met twice themselves, on the sidelines of diplomatic gatherings in Germany in July 2017 and in Vietnam that November.

  Quarz Media
Dear God.

*UPDATE 6/15:

I guess I called that.  (Disclaimer: it was an easy call.)
Trump joked after watching North Korean state-run television that not even Fox News praises him as much as the female anchor in North Korea praised Kim, a source told The Post.

The president also said that the North Korean anchor should maybe get a job in U.S. media, the newspaper reported.

[...]

"You know, it was sort of interesting because I noticed some of the press ... And I'm not even knocking them, because honestly they've been treating me very good on this subject. What's to treat badly? But some of the press would say, 'he's meeting with them, therefore he had a major loss.' I said, 'since when?' " Trump said.

[...]

One person who spoke to the newspaper [...] recalled Trump talking about how the guards could likely take on White House chief of staff John Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general.

[...]

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Thursday defended Trump's salute, calling it “common courtesy.”

  The Hill
A military salute is not "common courtesy", and we all know, Trump doesn't have even a passing relationship with courtesy.

No comments: