Making us proud

Trump’s tweet about hur hur Kim Jong Un agrees with him about how dumm Joe Bidan Biden is hur hur (and he’s not worried about those little weapons) was bad enough, but he repeated it in a press conference with Abe. Yes that’s what I said, he repeated it in a press conference with Abe.

His latest comments — which came over Memorial Day weekend — departed from precedent that presidents leave domestic political tiffs at home while traveling abroad and were condemned even by members of Trump’s own party along with Biden’s fellow Democrats.

Trump’s Biden barbs were coupled with a downplaying of North Korea’s recent missile tests, which broke with concerns expressed by his national security adviser and Japanese leaders.

He later underscored his alignment with Kim in a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. “Kim Jong Un made a statement that Joe Biden is a low-IQ individual. He probably is, based on his record. I think I agree with him on that,” Trump declared.

In a joint press conference with Abe.

You can see him say it at the beginning of this clip.

 

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9 responses to “Making us proud”

  1. Acolyte of Sagan Avatar
    Acolyte of Sagan

    From the Guardian. Trump says he was sticking up for Biden!

    Donald J. Trump

    (@realDonaldTrump)

    I was actually sticking up for Sleepy Joe Biden while on foreign soil. Kim Jong Un called him a “low IQ idiot,” and many other things, whereas I related the quote of Chairman Kim as a much softer “low IQ individual.” Who could possibly be upset with that?

    May 28, 2019

    Seems to me he’s just insulting Biden further by adding details.

  2. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    I saw that tweet. siiiiiiiiiiigh

  3. maddog1129 Avatar

    Projection, projection, projection.

  4. Omar Avatar

    Edward Helmore in The Groan also reviews a new book on Trump

    The former White House adviser Steve Bannon has described the Trump Organization as a criminal entity and predicted that investigations into the president’s finances will lead to his political downfall, when he is revealed to be “not the billionaire he said he was, just another scumbag….”

    The startling remarks are contained in Siege: Trump Under Fire, the author Michael Wolff’s forthcoming account of the second year of the Trump administration. The book, published on 4 June, is a sequel to Fire and Fury: Trump in the White House, which was a bestseller in 2018.Assessing the president’s exposure to various investigations, many seeded by the special counsel Robert Mueller during his investigation of Russian election interference, Wolff writes: “Trump was vulnerable because for 40 years he had run what increasingly seemed to resemble a semi-criminal enterprise.”

    He then quotes Bannon as saying: “I think we can drop the ‘semi’ part.”

    Bannon, a leading promoter of far-right populism, was a White House adviser until August 2017, when he was removed…

    Stand by for developments. They should not be long coming.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/28/bannon-trump-organization-criminal-enterprise-comments-michael-wolff-book

  5. Your Name's not Bruce? Avatar
    Your Name’s not Bruce?

    The former White House adviser Steve Bannon has described the Trump Organization as a criminal entity and predicted that investigations into the president’s finances will lead to his political downfall, when he is revealed to be “not the billionaire he said he was, just another scumbag….”

    Bannon was fine with the scumbaghood as long as it was coupled with billionairosity? So it’s okay to be a scumbag if you are actually a billionaire. Good to know. After all, the scumbagginess was already self-evident.

  6. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    Bannon has always known what Trump is. He’s clear-sighted and utterly without scruple.

  7. Your Name's not Bruce? Avatar
    Your Name’s not Bruce?

    I figured Bannon was scuple-less, but it seems funny that, in this quote at least, he sounds put out at having worked for “just another scumbag,” rather than a “billionaire” scumbag. I suspect the real attraction was the chance to be the puppetmaster of a “powerful, influential, stupid, lazy scumbag, on his way to sitting in the Oval Office” otherwise, what was the point? Jovial banter? Scumbag magnetism?

  8. iknklast Avatar

    He was find with the scumbagginess as long as he was Trump’s boy. Once Trump got rid of him (which should have been expected; Trump’s favorite words are “You’re fired!”), he decided it was terrible, oh so terrible, that Trump was a scumbag. Bannon is still in bed with plenty of scumbags.

    I suspect Bannon is a narcissist, as well. When two narcissists start to try to work together, it’s never pretty. They cannot be supportive of each other, nor can continue to stroke the other’s ego without some reciprocity.

  9. Josh Slocum Avatar

    They’re all narcissists. Yes, I mean that plainly and literally. There’s nothing to suspect, as it could not be otherwise.

    That is how these groupings operate. None of these people have normal-range temperaments or personalities. If they did, they would not be working where they are.