Trump says he'd like to take Kim Jong-Un to a baseball game
Trump became the first sitting president to visit North Korea in 2019
A convicted felon wants to take the guy that has children executed for listening to music to a baseball game. What a dream team.
7th inning stretch music turns into a bloodbath as the screams can be heard several blocks away from the stadium.
Take me out at the ball game,
Take me out in the crowd!
Generally if you hear something that makes no sense about an enemy of the US, it's either outright fabricated or missing vital context.
Like the trash story from a couple months ago was missing the context that South Korea has been sending balloons that littered North Korea with leaflets beforehand.
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I feel like all Harris (or whoever, but realistically, almost certainly Harris) has to do at this point is to read aloud a transcript of crazy shit he says in the context of a debate and just not let go until Trump either provides some sort of real answer or just completely loses his mind and tries to bum rush her podium.
The man clearly has a head full of mush. When is the media going to demand a press conference to ask him pointed questions about his mental health? That's how we judge our older presidential candidates, and trump is the oldest candidate in presidential history.
I fully expect 10 more articles from every publication, just on the gibberish from this instance. Maybe trump could drop out so JD Vance can run? More and more people are saying that recently.
JD Vance makes trump look ancient. Can we get clarification on trump's mental issues, maybe through a solo press conference with JD Vance? Trump doesn't have to attend.
If she read a transcript of Trump's inane ramblings, the sound bites of her sounding insane while saying all that would be on Fox and the rest of right wing media within minutes.
Yes after her opening statement of “things a convicted felon says …”
This is amazing! So like everything with this dipshit, his base has to gargle his balls and defend everything as the best and the Right Thing™ which means they should be supporting a communist dictator!
Their entire identity is being against communism!
Love it.
Really wonder how they'll renconcile those
Why reconcile when you can just keep gargling balls?
No no guys, he misspoke! He wants his base to gargle kims balls
What an idiot. Everyone knows K.J. is a basketball guy.
Cool, save a seat for Hannibal Lecter!
I mean I don't like Trump at all but he's very obviously kidding every time he does the Hannibal Lector reference (he makes this one pun over and over about "having you for dinner," laughs, uses a sarcastic tone, and notes how the media gets upset) and he was pretty clearly kidding with the baseball comment too.
Sure, take him to one in Cuba.
Trump getting charged for violating the sanctions he put on Cuba would be really funny.
Take you out to the ballllll gameee. Because you make me look tameeeee. But once I learn from you and start my term, I’ll change the term to last a thousand and one years… oh I’ll take you out to the ballllll gameeee
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Donald Trump said he’d like to take North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un to a baseball game as he boasted about their friendship at a Michigan rally on Saturday.
Under Kim’s leadership, “the government maintains fearful obedience by using threats of torture, executions, imprisonment, enforced disappearances, and forced labor,” Human Rights Watch reports.
Trump mentioned Orbán during the same Michigan rally, celebrating praise he claimed to have received from the authoritarian leader.
“Viktor Orbán... said when asked what happened with the world it’s falling to pieces, the wars all over, he said, ‘Bring back Trump.
The Hungarian leader has similarly praised Trump, calling the former president his “good friend” earlier this year when the duo met in Washington, DC.
Trump has also repeatedly praised Russia’s Vladimir Putin – even taking his side over that of US intelligence at a press conference in Helsinki in 2018 – and Xi Jinping of China.
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Is that before or after the knob slobbin? Hard to tell with these republikkklowns.
If only it had been just an inch or two to the right...
I'd like to take them both to a baseball game bat
"Trump says" ...
fucking junk article ?
..."he’d like to take Kim Jong-Un to a baseball game"
But of course : 99% of the time.
Me too! He would be the ball. I would have the bat. I can't afford tickets right now because we spend our tax money keeping an eye on Kim. So we'll play in the back of a NY Alley where it's safe.
so bets on if he thinks jong-un spent his whole life in north korea. Im betting he does thing that.
This is ... good? Fuck Trump, don't vote for him, but diplomacy is good. Progressives should be advocating for an end to our economic warfare against the people of NK, and attitudes like this are moving in that direction.
I mean, independent of Trump doing it yeah it's a good thing to try and pull them into normal diplomacy. But Trumps not inviting Kim for normal diplomacy in the hopes their countries can be freer and more prosperous together. He's inviting him so their countries can be more dictatorial. This is technically speculation, but I'd call it closer to an educated guess based on Trumps praise of dictators.
There’s diplomacy and then there’s taking Kim Jong-Un out to a baseball game like he deserves anything friendlier than a punch in the mouth. This would have an effect far closer to validating his behaviour than working towards improving it.
Trump is eating dinner at the table full of Nazis(and other authoritarians).
In other cases? Perhaps. There is the famous story of Boris Yeltsin visiting the US in 1989, visiting a grocery store, and realizing that capitalism was superior (honestly the whole thing never smelled right to me and I've never seen a direct quote from Yeltsin about it, but whatever). I'm sure there are other cases where normalizing relations and sharing culture has helped to ease tensions.
Kim Jong Un doesn't need any of that. He grew up and went to school in Switzerland. He's a huge fan of basketball and American movies. He is familiar with American culture already. North Korea's hostilities aren't about competing ideology, but about Kim Jong Un maintaining power by carefully maintaining a balance between his own military leaders, China and (to a lesser extent) Russia versus the US, South Korea, and their allies. It's in China's interest right now to have a belligerent puppet state who is annoying to the west without actually escalating to war. Until those geopolitics change, taking Kim Jong Un to see America's least favorite past time is only promoting and encouraging authoritarianism.
Trump foreign policy:
-1 Increasing sanctions on Cuba
-1 Increasing drone strikes in the middle east and Africa
-1 Not enforcing Minsk II
-1 stealing Iranian tanker
-1 Blowing up the guy who beat ISIS, while he was on a peace mission in a third country
+1 Calling off the war with Iran at the last hour
+1 threatening to leave NATO
-1 increasing funding for NATO
+1 Afghanistan withdrawal agreement
-1 escalating trade war with China
I can't give him one for North Korea since it didn't result in anything but a silly photo where Trump salutes some random north Korean soldier.
edit: What are the downvotes for? Does anyone disagree with my analysis? Is there someone out there chomping at the bit for war with Afghanistan, Iran, China, and Russia and starving Cubans?
I think some people have problems with your evaluation of the last few points.
I'm not gonna give him credit for calling off the war with Iran, since it was his own stupid decisions that got us there.
There are a lot of NATO fans here, so you're catching flak for the +/- evaluation on both of those points.
The withdrawal from Afghanistan was a goddamn trainwreck, so I don't think he should get points for that. Not entirely his fault, because the actual exodus didn't happen under his watch, but his timeline certainly didn't set his successor up for success.
But in general, saying anything even vaguely complementary towards Orange Julius is gonna earn you some downvotes around here.
