Trump says he wants 'my people' to 'sit up at attention' like North Koreans, later says he's '

[Zippyjuan]

But was he kidding? Trump demands loyalty and respect from those who work for him. And he loves pomp and circumstance.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/15/politics/trump-north-korea-kim-jong-un/index.html


President Donald Trump on Friday defended his warm praise of Kim Jong Un, saying his newfound affinity for the North Korean dictator was making Americans safer.

At the same time, Trump expressed esteem for the forced deference North Koreans show for their leader and joked he wished "my people" would do the same.

Asked why he's warmed to Kim, Trump insisted he was defusing a nuclear standoff.

"I don't want to see a nuclear weapon destroy you and your family," he told reporters during an impromptu question-and-answer session at the White House.

"I want to have a good relationship with North Korea. I want to have a good relationship with many other countries," Trump said. "We had great chemistry. He gave us a lot."

The remarks, which came three days after Trump met Kim in Singapore for an unprecedented and friendly summit, are likely to do little to allay concerns that Trump has shown too much regard for a brutal despot, one responsible for the death of at least one American and of countless North Koreans.
Pressed on that record, Trump demurred.

"I can't speak to that," he said. "I can only speak to the fact that we signed an incredible agreement."

Since returning from his summit with Kim, Trump has referred to Kim as "funny," "smart," "very talented," and someone who "loves his people."

He's also spoken with barely contained awe about the displays of reverence North Koreans are obligated to show toward their supreme leader.

"He's the head of the country," Trump said of Kim Friday during a live interview on Fox News' "Fox and Friends." "And I mean he's the strong head. Don't let anyone think anything different."

"He speaks and his people sit up at attention," the President added. "I want my people to do the same."

Later Friday, Trump told reporters at the White House his remark was a joke.

"I was kidding," he said. "You don't understand sarcasm."

North Korea has perpetuated human rights abuses for decades, according to watchdog agencies, human rights groups and the US government.

In his first five years in power, Kim has ordered 340 people to be executed, about 140 were senior officers in the country's government and military, according to a 2016 report from the Institute for National Security Strategy, a South Korean think tank.

In June 2016, a top education official was executed by firing squad after he exercised a "bad attitude" at the country's Supreme People's Assembly. Kim's defense minister was executed in May 2015 with an anti-aircraft gun at a Pyongyang military school, before an audience.

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

Hmm; looks like Mr. Moneybags is raking in the money today.

[angelatc]

He ought to start making them play "Hail To The Chief" every time he walks in front of a camera just to freak liberals out

I hate this bullshit Bitching about every single thing Trump does just makes it too easy to ignore the left when they have their stopped clock moments

[RonZeplin]

"I was kidding," he said. "You don't understand sarcasm."

If you have to explain a joke, it ain't funny.

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/GranularJauntyKiskadee-max-1mb.gif

Fox & Friends love The Donald, like NORKS love Kim Jong Un

[Zippyjuan]

He digs all that formal military stuff. Remember? (he also wanted a military parade for his inauguration)

https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2018/2/12/17003600/trump-military-parade-bastille-day-washington


Trump wants a military parade “just like France’s.”

“It was one of the greatest parades I’ve ever seen,” President Donald Trump told reporters at the United Nations General Assembly, two months after he witnessed the celebration of Bastille Day on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on July 14. “It was military might,” he added.

“We’re going to have to try to top it,” he apparently joked to French President Emmanuel Macron, who was sitting nearby. But it was no joke. Now he has ordered the Pentagon to prepare his own parade, “like the one in France,” as one senior military official has recounted. However exorbitant the expense, it does indeed look like this might actually take place.

But the French parade has its own history — and many nuances in practice — that can’t simply be transplanted to the US. There are good reasons why the French parade is viewed in Europe and elsewhere differently from the raw displays of military force that Russia, China, and North Korea indulge in. With no similar tradition to draw upon, the US, if it mounts a military parade, risks looking more like one of those authoritarian regimes than like Republican France.

The French parade is not at heart a display of military might

The origins of the French parade are clear enough: The event is held on July 14 every year to commemorate the fall of the Bastille, the great medieval fortress and prison that stood for centuries in Paris as a symbol of royal power. Its inmates included unfortunate people who had been consigned there without trial by the infamous lettres de cachet, sealed orders from the king that were sometimes used by aristocratic families to get rid of inconvenient relatives. (Its most notorious inmate was the Marquis de Sade, imprisoned there on the request of his mother-in-law but transferred to an insane asylum shortly before the Bastille fell.) By July 14, 1789, there were only seven prisoners left, and the Bastille was used mainly to store weapons and ammunition.




Indeed, Bastille Day in France has always been about people, not military hardware. It’s a celebration of the French national spirit — of French national determination to uphold the values of the revolution, liberty, equality, and fraternity. Today’s parades haven’t changed in this respect. The point of the event witnessed by Donald Trump was not to demonstrate military prowess but to demonstrate the nation’s loyalty to the idea of France, and the focal point was not massive pieces of military hardware but ordinary soldiers, sailors, and airmen.

The only military vehicles you can see trundling through Paris on Bastille Day are light tanks, armored personnel carriers, and tactical mobile artillery vehicles — and they’re there because they carry people. The combat airplanes flying in formation overhead are there to represent the men and women who serve in the air force, not to demonstrate France’s possession of the latest aerial weapons of destruction.


All of this is a world away from the massive military parades that began to be held in Soviet Russia to mark the victorious end to World War II and were subsequently imitated by other communist dictatorships across the world. These really are straightforward demonstrations of military might, featuring huge vehicles carrying enormous intercontinental ballistic missiles, the latest tanks and rocket launchers, and all kinds of massive military hardware. Alongside them march ranks and columns of crisply uniformed soldiers in formation, their goose-stepping creating an impression of an unstoppable, mechanized force.

China regularly holds parades of this kind, marking the anniversary of the communist victory at the end of World War II, and, notoriously, North Korea parades its military might on almost any excuse, most recently in an attempt to upstage the Winter Olympics that have just begun south of the Demilitarized Zone.

These shows of force all have their origins in the determination of communist dictators like Stalin or Mao Zedong or Kim Il Sung to threaten and intimidate real or imagined enemies. With the country’s leader taking the salute on the podium, they are also the very concrete expression of the country’s enforced veneration of their person and the regime they oversee.

More at link.

[Jamesiv1]

the article is from CNN lol

[Zippyjuan]

the article is from CNN lol

The statement was made on FOXTV.


Trump said of Kim Friday during a live interview on Fox News' "Fox and Friends."

Was the entire interview sarcastic? Which were the sarcastic parts?


"I can only speak to the fact that we signed an incredible agreement."


"I don't want to see a nuclear weapon destroy you and your family,

[Jan2017]

He digs all that formal military stuff. Remember? (he also wanted a military parade for his inauguration)


Zippy . . . your reminder is . . . genius!
But the border wall -
to keep out the illegal Mexicans who have raped the USA immigration policy for decades to the detriment of every
honest Central American and global nation -

uh, the wall jus' got 10 feet higher

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

The statement was made on FOXTV.



So why didn't you post the actual primary source interview instead of a secondary source?

[VIDEODROME]

Lol

Shit can't find where to embed media on mobile


https://youtu.be/jBFKs-bQWzc

[timosman]

Lol

Shit can't find where to embed media on mobile


https://youtu.be/jBFKs-bQWzc

What if he is?

[thoughtomator]

It's a sign of the complete retarditude this site has descended into that anyone here believes for a moment it was anything other than a joke.

[dannno]

If you have to explain a joke, it ain't funny.

In some cases it is because half of the audience is not intelligent enough to understand it.

[timosman]

It's a sign of the complete retarditude this site has descended into that anyone here believes for a moment it was anything other than a joke.

Are you suggesting Zippy should stop posting this crap or we should really let him go?:cool:

[timosman]

In some cases it is because half of the audience is not intelligent enough to understand it.

How dumb do I have to be to feel offended is the name of the game.

[Swordsmyth]

Libs have no sense of humor.

[timosman]

Libs have no sense of humor.

It is really pathetic when you realize this. They are always sad unless they stop pretending their fight against human nature will ever succeed.

[Jamesiv1]

He ought to start making them play "Hail To The Chief" every time he walks in front of a camera just to freak liberals out
They also need to play "The Yellow Rose of Texas" -- just because Texas is The Great State, and it goes along with Making America Great like Texas :)

[eleganz]

holy sht people are so uptight these days or is it just petty scrutinizing because BLONAHD DRUMPFF?

Look we all know Trump like to crack jokes and we all know we say stuff like that with our friends, I know I do and my friends do the same.

[Swordsmyth]

They also need to play "The Yellow Rose of Texas" -- just because Texas is The Great State, and it goes along with Making America Great like Texas :)
TheTexican will appreciate your suggestion.

[timosman]

holy sht people are so uptight these days or is it just petty scrutinizing because BLONAHD DRUMPFF?

Look we all know Trump like to crack jokes and we all know we say stuff like that with our friends, I know I do and my friends do the same.

People like you should be sent to reeducation camps. There is no hope for them. :cool:

[Zippyjuan]

In some cases it is because half of the audience is not intelligent enough to understand it.

So was everything he said to Fox sarcasm?



"I don't want to see a nuclear weapon destroy you and your family,"

[timosman]

So was everything he said to Fox sarcasm?

No. He really meant it.:eek:

[angelatc]

So was everything he said to Fox sarcasm?

No. He was 100% serious. Not a single irreverent facetious off-the-cuff remark. You should move south ASAP.

[phill4paul]

Lol. with each passing day I'm starting to like this guy more. Might even vote for him this next go around. If he wins a second election the uptick in autistic screecher suicides are gonna be a bonus.

[Occam's Banana]

[Trump] loves pomp and circumstance.

He ought to start making them play "Hail To The Chief" every time he walks in front of a camera just to freak liberals out

I'm still waiting ...


If he wins, I hope he makes his Secret Service detail wear flowing purple robes and feathered turbans ...

Big scimitars, too. They should have big scimitars ...

[Swordsmyth]

I'm still waiting ...



Big scimitars, too. They should have big scimitars ...

He needs a uniform to signify his rank as Commander in Chief:

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP. 7a-oekFtDnpJY5bCMqZL1wHaHa%26pid%3D15.1&f=1

[Jamesiv1]

Lol. with each passing day I'm starting to like this guy more. Might even vote for him this next go around. If he wins a second election the uptick in autistic screecher suicides are gonna be a bonus.I think a lot of US Americans are feeling the same way.

[timosman]

I think a lot of US Americans are feeling the same way.

Why was I such a chump to allow them to push me around for so long? :eek:

[enhanced_deficit]

Trump throws a bait and dumbo media gladly swallows it. As if there are not more important things to report on.

[VIDEODROME]

What if he is?


https://youtu.be/aD3xfT0c99g

[Aratus]

But was he kidding? Trump demands loyalty and respect from those
who work for him. And he loves pomp and circumstance.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/15/politics/trump-north-korea-kim-jong-un/index.html

TRUMP JUST JUMPED THE SHARK. KISS HIS PRESIDENCY GOOD BYE.

As I said, expect an Impeachment Trial. In our Senate. His big EGO...

[TheTexan]

TRUMP JUST JUMPED THE SHARK. KISS HIS PRESIDENCY GOOD BYE.

As I said, expect an Impeachment Trial. In our Senate. His big EGO...

https://media.giphy.com/media/Fml0fgAxVx1eM/giphy.gif

[Aratus]

I kydd thee naught.
Folks...he hit a nerve.
He also sounded sincere.
The summit video added
to the angst. so far, as
to his being convicted...

[Anti Federalist]

He ought to start making them play "Hail To The Chief" every time he walks in front of a camera just to freak liberals out

I hate this bullshit Bitching about every single thing Trump does just makes it too easy to ignore the left when they have their stopped clock moments

This.


"He speaks and his people sit up at attention," the President added. "I want my people to do the same."

They do.

All he has to do is say anything, it doesn't matter what, it could be "Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo" and the Bolshevik Left sits up and howls.

[Aratus]

This.



They do.

All he has to do is say anything, it doesn't matter what, it could be "Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo" and the Bolshevik Left sits up and howls.

But they don't praise HIM in the manner he wants to be praised.
He cannot avoid a spotlight. He craves attention. The biggest 5 ring
circus in American History was Andrew Johnson's Senate Trial. Trump
has a bigger EGO than Newt Gingrich. The Stars will align for this.
It will be a complete an' total fiasco of a zoo. Like 1868 or 1999.

[Superfluous Man]

This thread is illustrates perfectly how much more in tune with this website's mission Zippy is than any of the people who constantly accuse him of being a troll are.

[timosman]

This thread is illustrates perfectly how much more in tune with this website's mission Zippy is than any of the people who constantly accuse him of being a troll are.

I couldn't agree with you more.:D

[Swordsmyth]

This thread is illustrates perfectly how much more in tune with this website's mission Zippy is than any of the people who constantly accuse him of being a troll are.
:rolleyes:

Naturally one troll approves of another.

[timosman]

:rolleyes:

Naturally one troll approves of another.

Hush, Superfluous Man is flying under the radar.

[Swordsmyth]

Hush, Superfluous Man is flying under the radar.

May he crash into the terrain.

[eleganz]

This thread is illustrates perfectly how much more in tune with this website's mission Zippy is than any of the people who constantly accuse him of being a troll are.

Is the mission of this forum to not have a sense of humor?

[Wooden Indian]

These boobs have pressed me into a different outlook on America- and I don't like it.

[Weston White]

So was everything he said to Fox sarcasm?

Zippo, they are actually hidden messages, you just need to play the clips backwards at 3/8" speed while standing on your head and drunk on Kool-Aid.

[juleswin]

Any leader who doesn't secretly believe this is a liar. If I was president, I would much want them to like me the way the Germans adored a person like Hitler. The love for Kim Jun Un seems a bid culty seeing as the people are living in squalor and somehow they still loved him. So yes, that kind of love accompanied with me doing something that bring about that level of adoration.

[Wooden Indian]

It was a 'Dad Joke'.
As middle management, I get the joke. As a husband and a father, I get the joke.
As a human being, I get the stupid joke.

The only people that will say it was inappropriate, spend their every waking hour finding a new opportunity to be offended, crying all the way to their safe space, ffs.

[Zippyjuan]

Zippo, they are actually hidden messages, you just need to play the clips backwards at 3/8" speed while standing on your head and drunk on Kool-Aid.

"I buried Paul". "Turn me on Deadman. Turn me on Deadman."