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rogue emissary

(3,148 posts)
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 11:51 PM Jul 2020

Donny on the South Korean people.

From MD's Republican governor no less. This would be headline news except for the fact we are living in the darkest timeline. It's not that surprising we have a racist in the White House. What unnerves me is how quickly we've gotten used to his bigotry.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/16/larry-hogan-trump-coronavirus/?arc404=true

During the retreat in D.C., the Republican Governors Association sponsored a private dinner with the president. Backstage beforehand, I said hello to him. We took a photo together. He was perfectly cordial, even though we'd criticized each other in the past. Then he came out and gave one of his unscripted rally speeches that seemed to go on at least an hour too long. I don't remember him mentioning the virus, but he talked about how much he respected President Xi Jinping of China; how much he liked playing golf with his buddy "Shinzo," Prime Minister Abe of Japan; how well he got along with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.

Then, the jarring part: Trump said he really didn't like dealing with President Moon from South Korea. The South Koreans were "terrible people," he said, and he didn't know why the United States had been protecting them all these years. "They don't pay us,"Trump complained.
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Donny on the South Korean people. (Original Post) rogue emissary Jul 2020 OP
For Trump it is always about money. iemitsu Jul 2020 #1
There is another problem here soryang Jul 2020 #2
Well sure, not only aren't they paying enough protection money to our prick president... Thomas Hurt Jul 2020 #3

soryang

(3,299 posts)
2. There is another problem here
Sun Jul 19, 2020, 12:04 AM
Jul 2020

The truth is the entire US state department, defense department, think tank community, the lobbyists for the armaments industry, etc, in other words the Washington DC echo chamber and their media cronies despise the current South Korean administration because it is a democracy. The South Korean elected officials think that they are a sovereign state with a right to some input in their relationship with North Korea.

VOA talking heads spend almost as much time criticizing Moon Jae-in's democratically elected government which now has a filibuster proof majority in the National Assembly as they do criticizing the North Korean totalitarian dictatorship.

I'm sure drumpf was immersed in this contempt for South Korea which pervades the inside the beltway crowd and their reps in South Korea.

Therefore, he thought they'd be receptive to this shit.

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
3. Well sure, not only aren't they paying enough protection money to our prick president...
Sun Jul 19, 2020, 12:38 AM
Jul 2020

they are dissing his BFF Chubby Un.

It is like Trump wants to remove our presence from our allies so that Putin and NK can reconstitute national borders.

Did the Pig promise he would hell Putin retake all the Soviet territory back and Un have SK?

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