The Weakest Strongman
Kim and Trump, love at first site.
Trump just can’t give up Obama. Even when sitting around, shooting the shit with murderous dictators, Trump is the guy on a date that wants to rag on his ex. He just brings everything back to Obama:
“I don’t think Obama’s smart,” Trump told Woodward in an interview for his new book, ‘Rage’. “I think he’s highly overrated. And I don’t think he’s a great speaker.” Trump added that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un thought Obama was “an asshole.”
Kim Jong Un thought Obama was an asshole. Huh, great. Did you get those nukes from him Donny, like you promised?
No. What we learn from Woodward is that Trump has a sick crush on a killer.
Trump goes to say he was overwhelmed in meeting Kim for the first time in 2018 in Singapore: “Holy shit,” he thought, this guy Kim is “far beyond smart.”
“Beyond smart.” In comparison to Trump himself, I suppose.
Holy shit indeed.
Trump, the president of the United States, sitting around with Kim Jong Un, a dictator who thinks nothing of starving his own people to build up his nuclear arsenal, talking shit about the previous president like two Mean Girls in the cafeteria.
How is this not treason? How do we even deal with bullshit like this?
Good lord. And now we have those ‘beautiful’ letters, the ‘love letters’ between these two leaders. They write mash notes back and forth, praising each other in a psychotic mutual admiration society, Kim calling Trump "Your Excellency”, which Trump just giggles and gushes about. Trump also brags about Kim giving him all the details of how he killed his own uncle, Trump drinking it all in enviously, probably thinking about a few reporters he’d like to try these new pointers on.
A special, special friendship.
But the best (worst, most insane) quote?
This one right here (and thanks to Jonathan V. Last at The Bulwark for pointing it out):
“Trump reflected on his relationships with authoritarian leaders generally, including Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “It’s funny, the relationships I have, the tougher and meaner they are, the better I get along with them,” he told Woodward. “You know? Explain that to me someday, okay?”
It needs no explanation, we all know what it means.
And it ain’t funny.