Trump: Despite China’s ‘Help With North Korea, It Has Not Worked Out’

President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk together at Mar-a-Lago, Friday, April 7, 2017, in Palm Beach, Fla. Trump was meeting again with his Chinese counterpart Friday, with U.S. missile strikes on Syria adding weight to his threat to act unilaterally against the nuclear weapons program of China's ally, North Korea. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
FILE - In this April 7, 2017, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk together at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. The U.S. is piling the pressure on Beijing to use its clou... FILE - In this April 7, 2017, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk together at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. The U.S. is piling the pressure on Beijing to use its clout with North Korea to rein in its nuclear and missile programs. China is the North’s most important trading partner and ally, but Pyongyang has ignored Beijing’s calls for a suspension of those programs and its requests for high-level bilateral talks. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) MORE LESS

President Donald Trump engaged in an astounding bit of Twitter diplomacy Tuesday, saying abruptly that while he appreciate China’s “help with North Korea, it has not worked out.”

On Monday, American Otto Warmbier died just days after being released from 17 months of captivity in North Korea. Following news of Warmbier’s death, Trump said during a roundtable with tech CEOs: “It’s a brutal regime, and we’ll be able to handle it.”

He added Tuesday while speaking to press in the Oval Office: “It’s a total disgrace what happened to Otto. That should never, ever be allowed to happen.”

Trump also said Warmbier should have been brought home sooner, suggesting that his predecessor President Barack Obama bore some blame.

A few days after Trump hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping in April at Mar-a-Lago, he backed off formally calling the country a currency manipulator, breaking a campaign pledge and citing the country’s potential to help combat the threat posed by North Korea.

Just before Trump’s tweet, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said at a press briefing that “[w]e will continue to apply economic and political pressure and try to continue to work with our allies. We’ve had I think positive movement on China over the past five months of this administration. We’ll continue to work with them and others to put the appropriate pressure on North Korea to change this behavior and this regime.”

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  1. Ruh Roh, Deflection Donnie is about to get us into two wars at once…

  2. (BeattyCat handing PeePee-in-Chief a napkin) Dude, you got some Chinese poop still on your nose. You don’t have to try so hard – they already granted you the patents. Or is this about Jarvanka’s upcoming visit to do their own butt-licking?

  3. What didn’t work out?

  4. Gosh. What could go wrong?

  5. Donnie taking credit for building the Great Wall of China?

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