President Donald Trump on Saturday night downplayed North Korea’s missile testing as “some small weapons,” and also claimed that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un called 2020 Democratic candidate Joe Biden a “low IQ individual.”
“North Korea fired off some small weapons, which disturbed some of my people, and others, but not me,” Trump tweeted. “I have confidence that Chairman Kim will keep his promise to me, & also smiled when he called Swampman Joe Biden a low IQ individual, & worse. Perhaps that’s sending me a signal?”
Trump’s apparent optimism puts him at odds with National Security Adviser John Bolton, who told reporters on Saturday that “there’s no doubt” that North Korea violated U.N. Security Council resolutions with its missile launches in May.
North Korea fired off some small weapons, which disturbed some of my people, and others, but not me. I have confidence that Chairman Kim will keep his promise to me, & also smiled when he called Swampman Joe Biden a low IQ individual, & worse. Perhaps that’s sending me a signal?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 26, 2019
This is getting beyond ridiculous. He’s openly praising a dictator while claiming missile tests were some “small weapons.” If a Democratic president had said even a small fraction of anything remotely like this the right wingers would have passed out on their collective fainting couches, but treasonous behavior is A-OK as long as it’s their guy. Not to mention, the irony of misspelling a man’s name while simultaneously calling him “low IQ” is just too much for words.
Great way to honor our war dead on Memorial Day weekend: praise the North Korean leader while on Japanese soil.
The incoherence of that Tweet is amazing. It wasn’t enough to simply claim that black was white and that up was down. Instead, he had to find a way to insult a rival instead. Kim, who called Trump a “dotard,” called Biden “a low IQ individual”? It seems to me that Kim has a more creative vocabulary than our Dotard, and would have, if he cared to, come up with a much better insult (and made it public).
Is TPM correcting Trump’s spelling now? The original tweet spelled the former VP’s name as “Bidan”.
idiocy: noun: extremely stupid behavior. “the idiocy of decimating rainforests” · synonyms: stupidity · folly · foolishness · foolhardiness · madness · insanity · lunacy · silliness · brainlessness · thoughtlessness · senselessness · lack of sense · indiscretion